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Toyota Targets Over 5.5 Million Electrified Vehicles Yearly By 2030

…EVs to be available across the entire Toyota and Lexus line-up by around 2025 Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) this Monday announced its plans toward the popularisation of electrified vehicles for the decade 2020-2030. Toyota’s electrified vehicle strategy centers on a significant acceleration in the development and launch plans of hybrid ...

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Kia Nigeria Reports 200% Year-on-Year (YoY) Sales for 2017

    …As CEO promises to sustain the growth trajectory in 2018       Kia Motors Nigeria, the sole distributor of the leading Korean brand in Nigeria, has recorded increased sales in the year 2017 with over 200% year-on-year sales from 2016. Buoyed by this achievement, the company said ...

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Volvo Group Appoints Martin Weissburg President of Mack Trucks

        … Dennis Slagle Becomes Special Projects Leader   Volvo Group has announced the appointment of Martin Weissburg, currently President of Volvo Construction Equipment, as President of Mack Trucks effective June 1, 2018. Weissburg is billed to take over from Dennis Slagle, who has led the company since ...

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PHOTO NEWS: Ford,Coscharis Hand Over Brand New Ranger to Winner of The Next Titan Season 4

  From left: Felix Mahan and Omotayo Olori watch in great excitement as Kennedy Iyeh receives the keys to the brand new Ford Ranger from Abiona Babarinde at the ceremony  

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Ford Better World Projects Work to Improve Sanitation in India, Provide Clean Water in Mexico

          Ford Motor Company has announced the award of $200,000 in funding, part of the Bill Ford Better World Challenge (BFBWC), to support two international projects to improve health and sanitation conditions in India and Mexico. The grants are included in Ford Motor Company Fund’s annual ...

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Five-Star Safety Rating For Jaguar F-PACE

The Jaguar F-PACE performance SUV has added a five-star Euro NCAP rating to its 2017 World Car of the Year title.  The performance SUV, which also won 2017 World Car Design of the Year at the 2017 World Car Awards, scored 93% for adult occupant protection, 85% for child occupant ...

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Anthony Joshua Lights Up Christmas For NSPCC Children

      World heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua visited the NSPCC centre Boole House in Coventry, United Kingdom recently to surprise a group of children with a unique Christmas lights switch-on. Jaguar and Joshua are teaming up to promote the NSPCC’s ‘Light up Christmas for Children’ campaign by encouraging ...

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Peugeot 301 Midlife Voted Nigeria’s Car-Of-the-Year 2017

For the second successive year, Peugeot 301 has won the Nigerian Car-Of-The-Year (COTY) Award at an award night organised yearly by Nigeria auto journalists just like it is being done by others in many countries. Peugeot 301 Midlife which competed with the Nissan Almera and Kia Rio was announced as ...

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Microbiologist Wins N5m, Ford Ranger Heritage Bank’s Sponsored Next Titan Season 4 Top Prize

  A 22-year-old graduate of Microbiology from Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu who is also a fledgling entrepreneur, Mr. Iyeh Kennedy, has emerged winner of Season 4 of the Next Titan, Nigeria’s entrepreneurial reality TV show which has Heritage Bank Plc as headline sponsor. Kennedy is the MD of Blue Leaf ...

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