{"id":210460,"date":"2019-07-05T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/car\/haval-take-place-rising-sun\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:56:35","slug":"haval-take-place-rising-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2019\/07\/05\/haval-take-place-rising-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Haval take on \u201cThe place of the Rising Sun\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of South African motoring journalists along with some Haval executives has set off to visit Mpumalanga which translates to \u201cThe place of the Rising Sun\u201d in Swazi, Zulu, Tsonga and Southern Ndebele. Starting in Johannesburg the group set off on the first leg to Nelspruit utilising two Haval H9\u2019s, two Haval H6C\u2019s, a Haval H6 1.5 Turbo Luxury and a GWM Steed 5E Double Cab bakkie. The first meeting point was the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport, where additional journalists joined the trip.<\/p>\n<p>From there the group headed straight to the Haval Mbombela dealership to meet dealer principal, Johan Pretorius, and join in the handing over of two new vehicles to new customers. After the proceedings, the group hit the road in the direction of Sabi River Sun. The next day saw the vehicles take on 111 km or road heading towards Graskop and ended up at the infamous stretch of road known as \u201c22\u201d which includes exciting twists and turns.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-230474\" src=\"https:\/\/sandtonchronicle.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2019\/07\/haval_sap1255311_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The third day saw the journalists adopt a tourist approach visiting attraction points such as Pinnacle Rock, Gods Window and Blyde River. The day\u2019s activities ended at Graskop gorge where some explore the natural forest while some brave journalists participated in bungee jumps and bridge swings. The expedition is only on its halfway mark with more exploration and driving to be done in the Haval and GWM vehicles.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='85646a4e8b7b69adf55bce0e86632e3c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an outreach expedition, Haval took journalists on a trip through Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":210461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Autodealer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}