TEST-DRIVES

The South African Motoring Experience, South Africa’s only national motor show endorsed by NAAMSA (National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa) and  powered by the SA Festival of Motoring, is to hold from September 1-3 at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit. Recall that the inaugural SA Festival of Motoring ...

Magna International, the Canadian contract automotive manufacturers, is set to break the ‘rules’ as  automakers continue the search for a clean source of energy, with members of the Hydrogen Council taking the lead in the exploration of hydrogen-based energy while a few others are already exploring the great potential in ...

      Land Rover and the Red Cross are surely taking their 63-year global relationship  to the next level. The latest collaborative project between the two partners is a good pointer to this. Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) has designed and engineered a bespoke version of the new Land ...

  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 ...

The BMW Group South Africa is set to unveil the seventh generation of the BMW 5 Series. The unveiling, according to Edward Makwana, the Group Product Communications Manager (PR/Media Relations Manager) at BMW Group South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa ,  is scheduled to hold with a two-day National Media Launch ...

      (SEOUL) February 28, 2017 – The Kia Stinger is being plunged into the depths of Arctic winter for the latest stage in its development, ahead of its market introduction in the second half of 2017. Moving from the company’s European test base at the infamous Nürburgring Nordschleife ...

With the realisation that electro-mobility is the future of goods transport in towns and cities across the globe now, MAN Truck & Bus said it has partnered an Austrian consortium, the Council for Sustainable Logistics (CNL), on the joint development and testing of fully electrically driven trucks with the aim ...

  Toyota City, Japan, February 24, 2017―Toyota Motor Corporation delivered the first fuel cell bus (FC bus) sold under the Toyota brand to the Bureau of Transportation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. This FC bus (model name: Toyota FC Bus) will be put into operation as a Toei route bus ...

The interior of the specially-equipped DigitalLife bus   STUTTGART –  The involvement of Mercedes-Benz in to this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona is already starting in advance of the event. Ten selected participants of the globally successful Daimler hackathon series “DigitalLife Campus” will travel from Stuttgart to Barcelona ...

Chevrolet has refined the Trailblazer for better performance and it has proven to be an excellent cross country cruiser capable of making long distance with seating for seven passengers. The refined Chevy Trailblazer was put to test recently in South Africa by auto journalists who pulled the range topping 2.8 ...