Thomas Schaefer, Chairman and Managing Director of Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) together with employees and management of vehicle assembly give thumbs up to welcome the 1, 250, 000th Polo produced at the Volkswagen’s Uitenhage manufacturing factory on Monday.  The milestone also marked 21 years of the production of Polo ...

Detroit and Paris – General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM) and PSA Group (Paris:UG) today announced an agreement under which GM’s Opel/Vauxhall subsidiary and GM Financial’s European operations will join the PSA Group in a transaction valuing these activities at €1.3 Bn and €0.9 Bn, respectively. With the addition of Opel/Vauxhall, which ...

Decision day is really here for General Motors as the U.S. carmaker is set to make a formal pronouncement on the deal to sell off its loss-making Vauxhall and Opel operations to PSA Group, the French company that owns Peugeot and Citroen. A statement obtained from GM’s corporate website said ...

As the countdown to the proposed phasing out of the yellow commercial buses, popularly called Danfo, across Lagos State begins in earnest, the State Government has finally announced its plan to replace the yellow buses with modern city buses that will be fitted with charging points and close circuit television ...

Proforce (Defence) Limited, Nigeria’s leading total defence solution provider specialising in the manufacture of armoured vehicles, body armoured and other defence mobility products, said it has acquired a steel plant in the Sango area of Ogun State for the production of its steel just as arrangement had been concluded to ...

The chairman of Tata Sons who is also the CEO/Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Natarajan Chandrasekaran, has been appointed Director and Chairman of the Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc board, according to a statement issued on Friday. The new JLR Chairman is also a Director on the board ...

  Ford said it has partnered with Vodafone to bring 4G LTE connectivity to vehicles in Europe via the new FordPass Connect built-in modem and WiFi hotspot capability. Incorporating an external aerial, the Wi-Fi hotspot enables up to 10 devices to connect to the network at once. This, according to ...

Mitsubishi Motors SA (MMSA) said on Friday that it has issued a preventive recall on 7,449 Pajeros in the South African market for safety inspections and replacement of driver airbags. The recall is part of a global campaign over faulty Takata airbags as the carmaker is one of several vehicle ...

Canadian automotive giant, Magna International, which is also the world’s largest contract manufacturer of vehicles,  Thursday, rolled out the first unit of the BMW 5 Series produced from its  manufacturing assembly plant in Graz, Austria, according to Automotive News Canada, which also quoted Magna CEO Don Walker , as saying ...