As the FIA World Endurance Championship roars back into life at the Nürburgring in Germany this weekend after a short post-Le Mans break, the Ford Chip Ganassi team said it is set for success at the championship. “We recently announced that Ford is here for the long haul,” Ford Performance ...

    Mercedes-Benz designers, Daimler’s Think & Act Tank Business Innovation, and a leading golf cart manufacturer, Garia, have entered into a partnership resulting in the production of a premium-class golf showcar, the Mercedes-Benz Style Edition Garia Golf Car. Recently unveiled at a world premiere and described as a “real ...

Toyota GAZOO Racing returns to action just a month after its heartbreaking Le Mans 24 Hours, determined to respond with a strong result in the 6 Hours of Nürburgring, the fourth round of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Victory for the #5 car was taken away due to ...

Leading Nigerian university, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria said on Monday that it has won two awards with its ECO-marathon car which was invented as a result of major breakthroughs recorded through researches carried out  in petrochemicals and automobile engineering. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Ibrahim Garba, who disclosed this ...

Kia Motors Corporation is already counting the gains of adopting environmental-friendly technologies in its production processes. On Thursday, the Korean car maker said it has made significant progress in reducing the environmental impact of its production facilities.This was disclosed in the company’s annual ‘MOVE’ sustainability report released in Seoul. According to ...

Jaguar’s first ever family Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) will be officially unveiled in Nigeria by Coscharis Motors on July 21 at the Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos, according to a statement obtained by AUTO REPORT AFRICA on Wednesday.  The statement said the unveiling will be done in partnership with Tech+ during an ...

At Ford, every detail matters, and customer experiences are what matter most. That’s why the automaker set out in search of what makes cup holders – a seemingly small convenience – so important to customers. In the end, customer feedback will drive substantial changes to refreshed console designs, offering a ...

Kia Motors celebrated its first year of operations in Mexico last week . The anniversary event, which held at Hippodrome in Mexico City, was chaired by top executives of the automaker . Representatives of the Mexican Government as well as authorities of Nuevo Leon, where Kia Motors started production of ...

Two models, Cayman and Boxster, drove the impressive growth recorded by Porsche in its 2016 half-year results recently released in Dubai. And with 117,963 new vehicle deliveries made worldwide from January-June 2016, Porsche was three percent up in the first half of 2016 compared with the previous year’s figures. A ...

South Korea is to ban the sale of Volkswagen models suspected of passing the local approval process with falsified reports and will also revoke certifications, a media report said on Monday. The report noted that over 70 models from the German carmaker are thought to have received local approval with ...