Two years after its market launch in South Africa, BMW i has established itself as the most successful provider of Electric Vehicles (EV) and Plug-in-Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) in the country. Since market introduction in March 2015, a total of 419 BMW i models have been delivered to customers across ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) at the weekend redeployed 71 key officers across its Commands and Offices in the country, saying it was part of the ongoing bid by the Corps Marshal, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, to reposition the Corps for excellent performance. The redeployment takes immediate effect as the ...

(Olaolu Olusina) Nigerians who are eager to see affordable made-in-Nigeria cars produced in the country may soon heave a sigh of relief.This is because the newly-appointed Director-General, National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Mr. Jelani Aliyu, has taken up the challenge, assuring that their desire to have real and ...

Will your Phantom make it to London? That’s the question to ask lovers of this amazing road machine as the countdown begins for ‘The Great Eight Phantoms’, a Rolls-Royce Exhibition, scheduled to hold in Mayfair, London at the end of July this year. The event, which will gather together the ...

Kia Motors Corporation has put its May 2017 total global sales figures for passenger cars, recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles at  219,128 units, stressing that its bestselling model in overseas markets for the month was the Sportage compact SUV with 35,629 units sold. The subcompact Rio (known as ‘Pride’ ...

Top Nigerian lender, Fidelity Bank, said it is building a new crop of young, dynamic and talented workforce through its graduate recruitment scheme. This is as the bank recently admitted new inductees, who passed out of the Fidelity Crest Academy after a rigorous three months training programme,  into its workforce. ...

Volvo Cars has become the first automaker in the world to export China-built cars to Europe by train via China’s new ‘One Belt, One Road’ trade initiative. The first S90 premium sedans, built at Volvo’s Daqing plant in China, arrived at a distribution centre in Zeebrugge, Belgium, last week. The ...

  Three additional local organisations have received funding towards furthering the good work they do in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro.  The Volkswagen for Good Initiative handed over cheques to the value of R506 600 to the three deserving local charities bringing the total amount disbursed by Volkswagen Group South Africa ...

  Forty-two-year-old designer, Oliver Heilmer,  has been appointed the head of MINI Design, effective September 1, 2017, in a strategic realignment of the BMW Group Design unit, according to a statement issued in Munich by the German sports carmaker.  The designer, who has been part of the BMW Group design ...

Indian Oil Corporation (IndianOil) has appointed Sanjiv Singh, who joined the company in 1981, spearheading refinery operations as well as mega greenfield and brownfield projects in refining and petrochemicals, as its new chairman. His appointment took effect on June 1, 2017, according to a report by Fuels and Lubes Asia. ...