Volvo Cars on Wednesday chose the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit to launch its new signature premium sedan, the S90, underscoring its long term commitment to the US market and providing a clear sign of its confidence in continued sales growth in the coming year. Volvo sales ...

Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) said on Tuesday that it was planning to offload its majority stake in Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) Limited, a local joint venture with the major French automaker, Peugeot Citroen, and was seeking investors with experience in automobile manufacturing to buy the stake on offer. ...

Vehicle sharing programmes are gaining popularity these days, and now the Blue Oval is joining the pack. Through the new Ford Motor Credit Co. leasing pilot programme, families and small groups of friends and neighbours can now share a Ford vehicle, the automaker announced on Monday. Ford Credit Link — which ...

TU-Automotive has announced that it has been acquired by Penton, an innovative information services company, in a move that strengthens both Penton and TU-Automotive’s position as the market leading provider of events and digital information for the fast growing automotive technology and Internet of Things (IoT) segments, according to a ...

Tennis superstar and Kia global brand ambassador Rafael Nadal lifted the cover off of Kia’s latest ‘X-Car’ Wednesday in Melbourne, Australia during the official VIK handover ceremony for the Australian Open 2016. The one-of-a-kind Sportage CUV was created in collaboration with Twentieth Century Fox and modelled after the popular X-Men ...

  Toyota led the way in 2015 even as South African new-vehicle sales recorded yet another dip in year-on-year sales. Posting the company’s 36th straight year as the market leader, Toyota (including the Lexus and Hino brands) outperformed general economic conditions to achieve a laudable total of 123 028 new-vehicle registrations. ...

Ford said on Monday that it is conducting the industry’s first autonomous vehicle tests in snow-covered environments – a major step in the company’s plan to bring fully autonomous vehicles to millions of customers worldwide. Unlike other major automakers and technology companies, which have tested autonomous vehicle technology only in ...

The Continental Corporation can look back at a successful fiscal 2015, AUTO REPORT AFRICA can confirm. With sales of about €39.2 billion and an adjusted EBIT margin of 11.7 percent, the technology company said on Monday that it had comfortably achieved its targets for 2015. “In 2015, we continued to ...

 The connection between what you wear and what you drive is getting stronger with help from Ford’s new wearables research laboratory. At the laboratory, scientists and engineers are working to integrate wearable devices and vehicles to enable driver-assist technologies to be more aware of the driver behind the wheel – ...

 When the Lexus LF-LC Concept made a debut at the 2012 North American International Auto Show, the press, loyal customers, and enthusiasts wondered if the concept’s arresting styling and dramatic proportions could ever evolve into a production 2+2 coupe. On Monday, four years after the debut of the breakthrough concept ...