It’s testimony to Geely’s tenacity that the launch of its LC Cross actually happened. The day before the event the truck carrying the cars was side-swiped and jack-knifed 60km from the venue in Hoedspruit. Of the 11 cars aboard, seven were badly damaged and only four were able to be used (bearing war wounds).
A hastily executed Plan B had seven brand-new cars on the road from Midrand, just north of Johannesburg, at midnight and arrive an hour before the journalists at the newly opened Kapama game lodge outside Hoedspruit.
