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    As the annual South Africa Festival of Motoring, presented by WesBank, returns to the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit from August 22-25, 2019, organisers of the event,  Messe Frankfurt, have said that due to increased growth over the past three editions, the 4th edition of the show would now ...

… Further growth in unit sales expected for 2019 The year 2018 was, apparently, the most successful year in the history of Daimler Trucks to date, with record unit sales, revenue and earnings (EBIT). Daimler’s truck division increased its unit sales by 10 percent to 517,300 vehicles in the year under ...

    Isuzu is looking back at its impressive performance and transformation in South Africa in the past one year and is therefore celebrating a year of milestone in the country. Its investment in the country has preserved 1,000 direct jobs and secured around 4,000 jobs through its network of ...

  With the fully electric eActros truck,  Mercedes-Benz Trucks has  demonstrated that it is already possible today to complete heavy distribution tasks locally emission-free and quietly in the Murg valley in Southern Germany. The official handover of the eActros to regionally based logistics company, Logistik Schmitt, took place early in ...

    The new Ford Ranger has started rolling off Ford’s Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria thus bringing a raft of product upgrades and refinements to one of South Africa’s best-selling vehicles and export models. “Following the investment of over R3-billion in our local operations and extensive upgrades to our ...

  PSA Retail, Groupe PSA’s automotive distribution division,  said it would hire no fewer than 1,600 new employees, including 800 in France. in 2019 to enable it meet the ambitious objectives of  its medium-term plan. PSA Retail has made equal opportunity and gender balance in its front-line jobs a cornerstone of ...

Creating a more efficient footprint, Isuzu Motors South Africa has officially launched its consolidated truck and bakkie manufacturing plant. The R27-million project of relocating the Isuzu truck production facilities from Kempston Road in Port Elizabeth to Isuzu Motors South Africa’s headquarters in Struandale, Port Elizabeth, ensures all bakkie and truck ...

 Fifty-one-year-old  Joris Keymeulen  is simply the best as the Belgian  took the top step on the podium at the 2019 “BusTech Challenge” recently. in Neu-Ulm. The internal competition for bus mechanics is held every two years by Daimler Buses. He managed to set himself apart from the other competitors from 17 ...

The PAN Learning Centre (PLC), the training arm of PAN Nigeria, assemblers of Peugeot vehicles in the country, on Tuesday , graduated 80 trainees of United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Technical Skill Acquisition Programme (TSAP) Batch B, at an elaborated ceremony attended by the UNDP Country Representative for Nigeria, Ms ...

 Ford Motor Company has received an A grade for its water security efforts from CDP, the environmental impact nonprofit that drives sustainable economies. This marks the fourth year in a row Ford has earned an A from CDP for its water management efforts. Ford is the only automaker and one of ...