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Mercedes-Benz Vans Sets New Record, Passes 400,000 Units Mark For the first Time in 2017

    Mercedes-Benz appears unstoppable in its success story as its Vans division achieved a new record for unit sales in 2017 . For the first time, it  passed the 400,000 vehicles in sales. The division has thus grown continuously for five consecutive years. Based on the initial December results, ...

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Kia’s Stinger and SUVs delivered for Australian Open 2018

      Kia Motors has supplied a fleet of vehicles for the Australian Open after the completion of an epic 1,700 kilometer road trip. Former Wimbledon and US Open champion Lleyton Hewitt drove a Kia Stinger from Brisbane to Melbourne, where he handed the official key together with Kia ...

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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Launches Venture Capital Fund to Invest Up to $1 billion Over Five Years

Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, the world’s leading automotive alliance, has announced the launch of Alliance Ventures, a new corporate venture capital fund that plans to invest up to $1 billion to support open innovation over the next five years. In its first year, the fund expects to invest up to $200 million in ...

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Volkswagen Group South Africa Maintains Passenger Car Market Leadership

• As Polo Vivo and Polo remain South Africa’s best selling cars   The Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) has maintained its market leadership position in the Passenger Car segment for the seventh consecutive time as Polo Vivo and Polo remain South Africa’s best selling cars . VWSA has been ...

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Global Month of Caring:  Ford Volunteers Worked on 30 Projects in Sub Saharan Africa in 2017

      As Ford volunteers globally look forward to another Global Caring Month in September 2018 as Ford’s Global Month of Caring takes place annually in September, a whopping $111, 300 was disbursed by the volunteers in the Sub Saharan Africa region (SSA)  on 30 projects in South Africa, Kenya, ...

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Nissan Delivers 300,000th Nissan LEAF

    Nissan said on Monday that it has sold its 300,000th Nissan LEAF  globally since the model first went on sale in 2010. The 100% electric LEAF is the world’s first mass-produced – and also the world’s best-selling – electric car. Nissan launched a fully redesigned version of the ...

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Kia Nigeria Partners Cars45 on Used Car Sales, Trade-in Deals

 Kia Motors Nigeria has teamed up with Cars45, the foremost online retail platform for used car sales, to provide a uniquely seamless pre-owned car sales and Trade-in programme for all Kia cars. As the popularity of Nigerian used car sales increases with consumers, Kia is said it partnering Cars45 to ...

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Kia Storms CES 2018 With Vision for Future Mobility

        Kia Motors is storming the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which officially opened this Tuesday, Jan. 9 in Las Vegas with its future mobility vision  . Under its new ‘Boundless for all’ vision, Kia will bring a future in which opportunities for mobility and transportation are limitless. ...

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Toyota Brings Next-Generation Automated Driving Research Vehicle, Platform 3.0, to  CES

          Toyota Research Institute (TRI) said it will show its next-generation automated driving research vehicle, Platform 3.0, at CES which holds this week in Las Vegas. The new platform, which is built on a Lexus LS 600hL, combines greater technological capabilities with new harmonised styling that ...

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Former Toyota President Tatsuro Toyoda Dies at 88

Toyota on Saturday announced the death of its former President, Tatsuro Toyoda. A statement issued in Toyota City, Japan said Toyoda  died of pneumonia at the age of 88 on December 30, 2017. The statement said a private vigil and funeral had been held by close relatives, with Toyoda’s surviving ...

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