SEGMENT ANALYSIS

      Leading South African tyre chain stores, Tiger Wheel & Tyre, has launched a new programme, tagged Advantage Plus, to reward its customers. The company said joining Advantage Plus now gives vehicle owners exclusive access to members-only special offers, great deals and the means to quickly and securely ...

FC Porto players and officials are now to travel to their matches in comfort and also relax before and after the matches. Thanks to the MAN Bus Modification Centre (MBC) which has converted a NEOPLAN Skyliner into a luxury bus with individual seats for the players and their technical team ...

Nissan appears set for the September 5 reveal of the new Nissan Leaf as the Japanese carmaker, Thursday, revealed a teaser and some of the exciting features of the new edition of the world’s best-selling electric vehicle which has, to date, sold more than 277,000 units. Nissan said the new ...

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, Wednesday, promised to deploy no fewer than 200 officers of the Corps on the Apapa-Wharf axis of Lagos to help in traffic control and management as construction work begins on the Apapa-Wharf road in earnest.  Oyeyemi made the promise during ...

      Nissan said on Wednesday that its 2018 Pathfinder SUV which goes on sale in the U.S. next month will feature the first-of-its-kind Rear Door Alert (RDA)1 as standard. The Japanese carmaker said the new system utilises door sequence logic, centre instrument panel message display and industry-first multiple ...

    Rui Silva has been appointed as the new Managing Director for Subaru Southern Africa. Silva, who assumed his new position on July 1, 2017, was the former Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the company and he took over the mantle of leadership from Kazunori Suzuki who had been the ...

… 6 452 Vehicles Shipped to Europe, Middle East and Africa Ford has continued to show resilience in the face of general dwindling sales as  South African new vehicle sales showed encouraging year-on-year improvements in July 2017, with Ford, once again, remaining a key player in contributing to domestic volumes. With ...

The holidays are here and Volkswagen South Africa Group (VWSA) and the Young Entrepreneurs (YE) Foundation are catching the school children young, training them to be future entrepreneurs. A very good initiative, no doubt.  On Monday, July  31, 2017, the Young Entrepreneurs (YE) Foundation launched its first programme at the ...

  …  Targets Nigeria, Ghana Markets By Emmanuel Oluwatobi IKA Germany, a leading global player in the automotive aftermarket spare parts supplies, has added  Made-in-Germany premium water pumps to its range of Gebe products. The company said the Gebe premium water pumps, which come in over 850 part numbers for ...

Kia Motors Corporation on Tuesday announced its July 2017 global sales figures for passenger cars, recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles, recording a total of 216,118 units sold. the Korean carmaker said its domestic market sales decreased by 0.9% compared to the previous year, resulting 43,611 units sold, which is ...