Auto Report Africa

  Ford South Africa has presented a special Ranger 4×4 to the Nelson Mandela Foundation as a honour to the legacy of the man who led the country to independence . Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in Mvezo, Transkei, on 18 July 1918. In celebration of ...

    TORSUS, manufacturer of the world’s toughest, heavy-duty off-road buses is set to cause a stir in the commercial vehicle sector with TERRASTORM, a 4×4 off-road minibus. Available to order now, starting from €57,461 (£52,290.95), the first TERRASTORM deliveries will commence in Q3 2020 in both left-hand and right-hand ...

  Thierry Bolloré, CEO of Groupe Renault,  has been named the  new Chief Executive Officer of  Jaguar Land Rover. Bollore, whose appointment takes effect on 10 September, will take over from Prof Sir Ralf Speth, who will move into the previously announced position of Non-Executive Vice Chairman of Jaguar Land ...

            • After driver training by Transit Support Services   Dangote Cement Plc has presented 82 brand new Shacman trucks to its distributors to ease the distribution of cement to consumers across Nigeria. The vehicles were handed over to the distributors after their drivers, supervisors ...

                    Chairman of Nissan Africa South, Mike Whitfield, will lead the African Association of Automotive Manufacturers (AAAM) for the next one year following his election as President  at the organisation’s  Annual General Meeting which held recently. Whitfield, a former president of ...

More than six years ago, a team of luxury intelligence specialists, designers, engineers and craftspeople assembled to begin development of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost. As with the first Goodwood Ghost, launched in 2009, this collective would work obsessively to ensure that New Ghost would hold its own place in the ...

    VBOXAfrica has brought the Performance Box Touch to South Africa. Now selling at R14 950 across the country, the  VBOX PerformanceBox Touch is a product of Racelogic, the global leader in satellite-based datalogging systems for the automotive industry. It replaces the acclaimed and long-serving VBOX PerformanceBox and,  as the ...

Forty-year-old Matthias Hossann takes over, this Tuesday, July 28, as the brand design director for Peugeot following the exit of Gilles Vidal. Matthias, who is coming from the talent pool of the PSA Group’s style department, graduated from the Strate design school and joined the Group’s style department in 2002. He has ...

Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos, the  Design Director of SEAT, is returning to the Renault Group’s Design team. A statement issued, Monday, said he is expected to resume duties on October 1, 2020 and report to Laurens van den Acker, EVP, Corporate Design and member of Groupe Renault’s Executive Committee. Excited at the ...

    Bugatti has announced that the design and testing phase of its 110th birthday present, Bugatti Baby 11, has been completed with the car already gone into series production and clients will be soon be taking delivery of the very first cars. Production of the all-electric and handcrafted Bugatti ...