09 Feb
Blog, Event, Featured

SA Camp Fest – The 15th Edition

The name has been Vdub Camp Fest for about 14 years now, and for the 15th instalment it became known as SA Camp Fest. With the Vdub part dropped from the name we expected to see a bunch of other makes and models rolling around the Warmbaths venue in Bela Bela, but there were no more of these “outsiders” than usual, probably because the name change didn't have anything to do with what cars are allowed in or not. While the name has changed, it’s still actually a VAG-only event,...

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09 Feb
Blog, Event

Vdub Camp Fest 2k23 – a record-setting event, even with a squishy show arena

Vdub Festival 2k23 – that was one for the books, for many reasons. Of course, VAG Café was in attendance in force with a bunch of awesome flient cars (flient = friends and clients) on display. Some merch was on sale too, those Year of the Rabbit Ts are so damn cool and from the reactions is clear that everyone thinks so. This instalment of the biggest gathering of VAG cars in the Southern Hemisphere, was the biggest to date. To say the...

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12 Nov
Blog, Event

The VWCSA DubRun 2k22 – A VAG Cafe tale

The annual DubRun with the Volkswagen Club of SA recently took place, and VAG Café was in attendance, but you already knew that would be the case. The event is the Club’s annual pilgrimage to Durban, an event that was started way back in 2007. In fact, boss man and owner of VAG Café, Shaun Mooloo was one of the initial instigators along with a bunch of like-minded Volkswagen and Audi fanatics. Memory is a little fuzzy because we’ve been in this game...

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22 Jun
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A State of Stance – KZN’s monster event!

A State of Stance 2022 - well, that was quite the show! Daaaaaamn! It was the furthest I've driven to shoot a weekend show in recent years, and I'm rather pleased that I did. I was keen on attending, and I luckily managed to crack an invite to attend and shoot, which covered most of the fuel bill and also sorted me out for accommodation and media passes for the event. That's a win in anyone's books. Friday was the set up day,...

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29 Apr
Blog, Event

VAG Cafe & the 2021 VWCSA VKC track day

With things feeling a lot more normal-ish, events are ever so slightly starting happen again on the motorsport side of things. Oddly the law still says you can't have more than 200 people at an outdoor event (or something equally ridiculous) and so this means the events that rely on foot traffic income to be able to cover the cost of setting things up can't happen. That or someone is going to be a fair chunk of change out of pocket. To be...

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31 Aug
Blog, Event

VWCSA at VKC 2020 by VAG Cafe

Here at the Cafe of VAG, we love to support the Volkswagen Club of SA they have events. They're always put together just right, but when it comes to the racing events we always wondered why the field of cars is usually made up of non-club members as well as non-VAG cars, especially with so many hot and fast cars in the club - we know they're there because we helped to make many of them fast. Well we're happy to repot...

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08 Jun
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A VAG Café-flavoured Speakeasy

"Speakeasy?" We hear you ask. If you haven't heard the term, you've never read or watched anything from the days of prohibition. While the official meaning of a speakeasy borders on the illegal, it sort of fits as a name for some small get-togethers that started springing up round SA, particularly at VAG Café. If you head on over to Wiki, you'll find that prohibition ran primarily from 1920 to 1933, but people still made plans to gather and get schnozzled. Establishments that...

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12 Feb
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VDub Camp Fest 2020

The first weekend in February was set aside for the 12th annual VDub Camp Fest, and the biggest gathering of Volkswagens in the Southern Hemisphere would take place come rain or shine. That’s a great attitude to have because rain it was, lots of it, almost enough to rename it to Damp Fest. Some mad enthusiasts arrived at Forever Resorts Warmbaths on the Thursday already, these are mad people. The VAG Café crew decided that Friday would be the right time to head to...

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