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Tiger Wheel & Tyre opens new store in Botswana

Tiger Wheel & Tyre has opened a new store in Botswana. Located at the Airport Junction Shopping Centre in Gaborone, the new store is the second Tiger Wheel & Tyre outlet in the country’s capital. Mark Kotze, who is the Manager of the new store, which has four fitment and ...

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Mercedes-Maybach S 650 Cabriolet gets underway

  The limited edition of Mercedes-Maybach is in the works. It is the first cabriolet from the Mercedes-Maybach brand. Its production is following the Vision Mercedes Maybach 6  which celebrated its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show and its European premiere at the just-concluded Paris Motor Show. All is now set ...

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Charleen Clarke is SA’s ‘Commercial Vehicle Journalist of the Year’

      Charleen Clarke, the editor of FOCUS on Transport and Logistics, a mainstay publication in the commercial vehicle market in South Africa, has emerged as South Africa’s ‘Commercial Vehicle Journalist of the Year.’ She was declared winner of the category at the recent SA Guild of Motoring Journalists’ ...

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Peugeot 301 is Nigeria’s ’Car of the Year’ for 2016

Peugeot 301 has emerged Nigeria’s ‘Car of the Year’ (COTY) for 2016. The award for the top position was presented to Peugeot at the 2016 Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) Awards ceremony which held Thursday at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. Assembled in the northern Nigerian city ...

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Volkswagen achieves ISO 14001:2015 certification

Lead auditors from Tuev Nord and Volkswagen AG have awarded Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) the new International Environmental Certification – ISO 14001:2015. The certification was awarded and confirmed following great improvements made in record time by VWSA in Safety, Environmental and Energy management performance processes.  Thomas Bunge, an external ...

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Female engineers testify to positive value of leadership programme

The Women in Engineering Leadership Association (WELA) programme, a joint initiative of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) and the manufacturing, engineering and related services SETA (merSETA), aimed at empowering young female engineers at the institution,is already yielding positive results. Female engineers, who have passed through programme, keep on testifying ...

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Mercedes-Benz CharterWay delivers royal Christmas tree to the Queen

  The Christmas tree for the Queen arriving   Windsor Castle. The yuletide is around the corner and preparations are in top gear to celebrate the season across the globe. This year, the town of Coburg in Bavaria, Germany, has sent a beautiful, specially grown fir tree to the Queen ...

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MAN opens three new dealerships in Morocco

MAN has opened three new dealerships in Morocco. The new MAN dealerships are located in Agadir, Nador and Tangier. The opening of the new dealerships came as MAN appears set to continue its winning streak in Morocco with the sales of its trucks rising sharply in the past two years. ...

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VON Automobile Nigeria refutes Senate allegations

VON Automobile Nigeria Limited, Thursday, said there was no iota of truth in the allegations by the upper arm of the country’s National Assembly, the Senate, that the company was engaging in economic sabotage. VON Automobile Nigeria Limited assembles Hyundai, Nissan and Volkswagen passenger cars as well as Ashok Leyland ...

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New Book: All Mercedes-Benz SLs since 1952

Book: Mercedes-Benz SL – Six Decades of Fascination Publisher: Daimler AG Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart Pages: 528 pages A new book on all Mercedes-Benz SLs produced since 1952 has just been released by Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart. Titled, Mercedes-Benz SL – Six Decades of Fascination, the 528-page book on the iconic model series of the ...

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