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Clever Kids Come up with Green Way to Keep Windscreen Clean – Using Reused Rainwater

 It’s an idea that could one day help save billions of litres of water.  Instead of simply wiping raindrops off our car windscreens, why not collect and reuse the water via the washer jets? Brother and sister Daniel and Lara Krohn were travelling in the family car last summer when ...

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Octopus: Heritage Bank Attains ISO 27001 Information Security Management Certification

Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s most innovative banking service provider, has achieved the Information Security Management Certification from International Standards Organisation (ISO). This certification also known as the ISO 27001: 2013 is part of the ISO 27000 family of standards which helps organisations keep information assets secure. The certification was achieved ...

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Kia Releases First Images of its New Flagship Luxury Sedan, the All-new K900

    Ahead of  its world debut at the New York International Auto Show on March 28, Kia Motors has revealed the design of the all-new K900  in a series of exterior and interior images. The all-new K900 has been created in close collaboration between Kia’s global design headquarters in Namyang, Korea ...

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Goodyear Introduces the New Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 SUV

  Goodyear, one of the world’s largest tyre companies, with 48 manufacturing facilities in 22 countries around the world, has introduced the Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 SUV, the latest model in the Eagle F1 Asymmetric range, which focuses on optimised braking and handling in all conditions. The Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 SUV ...

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Nissan Canton Celebrates 4 Million Vehicle Production Milestone

    Nissan North America has celebrated the production of four million vehicles at its Canton assembly plant, and announced the addition of a second shift that will create or retain 250 hourly jobs to support increasing demand for NV Commercial Vans. The announcement came as the plant approaches the ...

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Milestone as Kia Sportage Global Sales Hit Five Million

…Current-Generation Sportage Reaches a Million Sales 29 Months after Launch   Kia Motors has rolled out the drums in celebration of the  five million cumulative sales of its global best-selling Kia Sportage compact SUV.  Launched in 1993, and spanning four generations since, the Kia Sportage has achieved this milestone on ...

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The Jeep Stand Wins the ‘Creativity Award’ in Geneva

    The Jeep® stand has won  the prize for the “best stand” at the just-concluded 2018 Geneva International Motor Show.  There was particular praise for the wide range of materials used, the exciting visual animation and the perfect fusion of the wildest natural surroundings and the most sophisticated urban ...

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Victory for Ford NWM at Season-Opening Mpumalanga 400

  The Ford Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) team got its challenge for the 2018 South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) off to a winning start last weekend by claiming victory on the season-opening Mpumalanga 400 race held in Dullstroom. In a race plagued by heavy overnight rain that resulted in ...

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Global Recycling Day : Ford Showcases Some Surprising Materials in Car Manufacturing

What do Soybeans, Tequila, and Pantyhose really have in common? They’re all recycled and used for seats, insulation, and plastic components in Ford cars! From an early age, it was drilled into all of us that recycling is good for the environment. Who hasn’t been through a newspaper drive, collected used ...

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Nissan/Datsun Listed for Honour at the 2018 Classic Motorsports Mitty

    Nissan/Datsun has been selected as the featured marque for the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Speedfest vintage races at the upcoming Classic Motorsports Mitty vintage festival, where legendary Datsun/Nissan race driver John Morton will serve as the grand marshal. Now in its 41st year, the Mitty festival – the ...

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