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Nissan Scoops Five Awards at Annual Texas Truck Rodeo

    … 2018 TITAN Midnight Edition named “Full-size Truck of Texas” …2018 Rogue “Compact SUV of Texas” The Nissan truck and SUV lineup is departing Texas truck country with a bed full of awards once again. Following two full days of evaluations at the annual Texas Auto Writers Association ...

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Peugeot-Citroën Halts Egypt Investment Plans over Automotive Directive Delay

The delay by the Egyptian Parliament in passing the country’s  Automotive Directive into law may be holding back a lot of investments into the country’s auto sector. The Automotive Directive is an auto development strategy draft aimed at opening the country’s auto sector to investments with mouth-watering incentives for local ...

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Porsche Expands its Mid-engine Range with the new 718 GTS Models

  Porsche is expanding its mid-engine range for even greater performance and exclusive equipment with the new two-seater 718 Boxster GTS and 718 Cayman GTS. Apparently tailored for more sportiness, the power output has been increased to 365 hp (269 kW), thanks to a newly developed air intake-duct and an ...

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Hyundai Seals New Partnership Deal With Mamelodi Sundowns

Hyundai has sealed a new brand partnership with the current African and CAF Super Cup champion, Mamelodi Sundowns FC, thus showing its commitment to African football. The 3-year-deal, which is coming barely a month after a similar automotive partnership deal was sealed between Ford Motors and Orlando Pirates,  goes beyond ...

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Goodyear Wrangler DuraTrac Tyres for Land Rover Experience Tour Peru

Goodyear’s Wrangler DuraTrac tyres have been chosen by Land Rover as its official tyre partner for the 2017 Land Rover Experience Tour Peru and the tyres will be tested to the limit during the tour which started October 14, running through November 9, 2017. During the four-week expedition, a selection of ...

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Volvo, Geely Holdings Splash EUR 640 million on Polestar

….As Polestar unveils its first car – the Polestar 1   Volvo Cars and its owner, Geely Holdings, Tuesday announced a joint investment of EUR 640 million to support the initial phase of Polestar’s product, brand and industrial development. Polestar is Volvo Car Group’s performance arm.  The investment, according to ...

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Ford, Coscharis Motors Sponsor the Next Titan

Ford Motor Company in collaboration with its local distributor in Nigeria, Coscharis Motors, has announced its participation as a supporting sponsor of the Next Titan, an entrepreneurial reality show.  A brand-new Ford Ranger will be presented as a prize to the overall winner of the competition to start their new ...

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ICA Awards for Heritage Bank’ Senior Executives

  The Institute of Credit Administration (ICA) has conferred distinguished awards on two senior management executives of Heritage Bank Plc at the Nigeria Credit Industry Awards and Postgraduate School of Credit and Financial Management (PSCFM) graduation ceremony held at the weekend in Lagos. The awardees are Mr. Jude Monye, an ...

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Coscharis Motors Unveils Ford Assembly Plant in Lagos

Coscharis Motors, Ford’s sole representative in Nigeria, Friday, unveiled its newly-built, ultra-modern Ford Assembly Plant to the media in Lagos. The massive facility in which no fewer than 600 units of made-in-Nigeria Ford Ranger have been rolled off the production line sits on a portion of the 14-hectare expanse of land ...

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TSL, Nigeria’s Largest Multi-brand Auto Workshop, Opens for Business Thursday

          (By Olaolu Olusina) Nigeria is set to witness a transformation in the automotive workshop business despite the general downturn in the auto sector. This is as TSL, an auto workshop that is poised to emerge as the largest multi-brand automotive workshop in the country is ...

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