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 Before taking to European roads, the new Ford Ranger Raptor has already gone seriously off-road and into uncharted territory – to be the first ever vehicle revealed at Europe’s largest video gaming event, Gamescom.  Two Ranger Raptors provide striking bookends at the Ford stand, which also includes a 4D racing ...

  BMW Group South Africa Thursday celebrated the start of production of the BMW X3 in South Africa by donating 20 locally built BMW X3s worth more than R15m to selected educational establishments and NGOs.  The first organisation to receive its BMW X3 20d is The Rhino Orphanage, a Limpopo-based ...

Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA)  has appointed Andile Dlamini as its new Head of Group Communications  to take over from Matt Gennrich, who officially retired from Volkswagen after 38 years of service in March . His appointment takes effect from  September 1,  2018,.  Andile has 15 years’ experience in Public Relations ...

  Ford Motor Company’s Struandale Engine Plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, has once again been recognised as one of the Eastern Cape’s top exporters after winning the ‘Best Exporter OEM’ Award for the third time. The annual awards are hosted by Exporters Eastern Cape, and acknowledge the top export ...

    Nissan’s remarkable 50-plus-year history of motorsport in the U.S. and its exciting future were showcased at this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Selected as the first-ever featured marque from Japan, Nissan and Datsun stars and cars were on site for the event – including Peter Brock’s championship-winning BRE cars ...

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) Tuesday announced that they have agreed to expand their collaboration with the aim of advancing and bringing to market autonomous ride-sharing as a mobility service at scale. To accomplish this, technology from each company will be integrated into purpose-built Toyota vehicles ...

Audi and Volkswagen brands will be coming together for this years’ Festival of Motoring taking place at Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit from 31 August to 2 September 2018. “Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) will be out in full force at the Festival of Motoring this year. We are excited for ...

Jaguar Classic has confirmed it will offer all-electric E-types for sale. This followed an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the original concept for ‘the most beautiful electric car in the world’. The news follows the iconic EV sports car’s successful debut in concept form at Jaguar Land Rover Tech Fest in ...

There’s really no place quite like home. This weekend , Team PEUGEOT Total, starring Sébastien Loeb, Timmy Hansen and Kevin Hansen, will compete with the PEUGEOT 208 WRX on PEUGEOT’s home territory at Loheac in Brittany: round 8 of the FIA World RX Championship from September 1-2. At the oldest ...

Mahindra South Africa, one of the fastest growing brands in South Africa, has signed on as the naming-rights sponsor and a major exhibitor at this year’s Getaway Show in Johannesburg. Scheduled to hold between  September 14 and 16, 2018, the Getaway Show, in association with Mahindra, will be the largest ...