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About Fangio Auto

Family-run.
Two workshops.
One standard since 2009.

Fangio Auto started as one bay in Randburg with a simple promise: fix the car properly, charge fairly, and tell the owner the truth. More than twenty years of experience on, the same family runs two workshops, in Randburg and Hermanus, and the promise has not changed.

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Miguel working under the bonnet of a customer's car on the hoist at Fangio Auto Randburg
A young Miguel rebuilding an engine on a bench, long before Fangio Auto opened
Miguel, years before the first Fangio Auto sign went up.

Where we come from

From Buenos Aires to Blairgowrie

Three decades ago our family left Buenos Aires and crossed the South Atlantic to start again under a South African sun. What came with us was a love of cars and the habit of fixing them ourselves, handed down from one generation to the next.

That habit became a trade, the trade became a workshop, and in June 2009 the first Fangio Auto opened its doors on Susman Avenue in Blairgowrie, Randburg. It is still there today.

The name

The legend behind the name

Juan Manuel Fangio was a fellow Argentine and the driver who ruled Formula One in the 1950s, winning five world titles in an era when the cars had no seat belts and the tracks had no run-off. He was known for doing more with less, and for treating the machine with respect.

We borrowed his name because that is the standard we hold ourselves to in the workshop: precise, unhurried, and never rougher on a car than it needs to be.

Juan Manuel Fangio at the wheel of a red 1950s Formula One car
Juan Manuel Fangio, five-time Formula One world champion.

The journey

One workshop became two

  1. The original Fangio Auto workshop in Randburg with an Alfa Romeo parked outside when it first opened
    2009

    Randburg opens

    One workshop on Susman Avenue, an Alfa Romeo on the forecourt and a reputation to build from scratch.

  2. The Fangio Auto Hermanus workshop building with customer cars parked outside
    2021

    Hermanus opens

    In the middle of a pandemic that closed workshops across the country, we opened a second one on Steenbras Road in Hermanus Industrial.

  3. Fangio Auto Randburg today with its red reception and workshop signage and two Fiat 500s outside
    Today

    Two branches, one family

    Both workshops have been rebuilt around better tooling, better diagnostics and the same people answering the phone.

The people

Meet the Fangio family

You will deal with one of these four, and they will remember your car.

  • Alejandra, Randburg branch, Fangio Auto

    Alejandra

    Randburg branch

    The matriarch. Runs the Randburg front of house and knows more about what is under a bonnet than most people who work on them. Dream car: an Audi R8.

  • Miguel, Randburg workshop, Fangio Auto

    Miguel

    Randburg workshop

    Grew up with an engine on the bench. From compact Fiats to Aston Martins, if it rolls into Blairgowrie it goes over his hoist.

  • Jorge, Hermanus branch, Fangio Auto

    Jorge

    Hermanus branch

    The face of Fangio Auto in the Overberg. Opened the Hermanus workshop in 2021 and still teaches every new hand the Fangio way of doing a job.

  • Gaby, Customer care and marketing, Fangio Auto

    Gaby

    Customer care and marketing

    The one who answers the WhatsApp, chases the quote and keeps both branches talking to you in plain language.

Alejandra at the wheel of a white Audi R8 in the Randburg workshop
Alejandra, briefly living the R8 dream.
Jorge showing a team member a fault under the bonnet at Fangio Auto Hermanus
Jorge walking a new team member through a job in Hermanus.
Messi, the golden retriever who was the Fangio Auto workshop mascot
Messi, workshop mascot and our most loyal employee. Missed since 2024.

How we work

What you can hold us to

  1. Fixed properly, first time

    We diagnose before we replace. You pay for the part that failed, not for a guess, and the job is done to spec so it does not come back.

  2. Told straight, every step

    It is your car in our care. You hear from us before any extra work starts, with a price, a reason and a photo when it helps.

  3. Fair on price

    We will not always be the cheapest quote in town, but we will always be honest about what your car needs now and what can wait.

Got a quote from another workshop? Send it to us and we will look at it.

Where to find us

Two workshops, pick the closest

Ready when you are

Bring your car to people who will remember it

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