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  Hyundai Motor Group’s Chief Design Officer, Luc Donckerwolke, has been presented with the DESIGNBEST award. The presentation was made at the 19th edition of the AUTOBEST awards. Donckerwolke therefore becomes the newest member of AUTOBEST’s ‘DESIGNBEST Hall of Fame’ dedicated to the most successful designers in the automotive industry. Luc ...

  The COVID-19 pandemic is having a far-reaching and devastating impact on communities around the world, and governments, hospitals, clinics and healthworkers are being stretched well beyond their capacities as they strive to care for those infected with the coronavirus. It’s in these circumstances that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play a ...

  Nissan has appointed Guillaume Cartier as Senior Vice President and Chairman of its Africa, Middle East, and India region (AMI) and Head of the Global Datsun Business Unit. His appointment takes effect from 1 April 2020. In this role, Cartier will lead the regional management committee and be responsible ...

Isuzu Motors South Africa (IMSAf)  has restated its full support to the measures which have been implemented by President Cyril Ramaphosa during the lockdown period to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the country. The company said it recognised that during this critical period, it is important that essential services ...

Three years after Volkswagen ventured into Sub Saharan Africa, the brand’s assembly facility in Kenya is going strong as the automaker has deepened its market share in the country. The assembly facility, which was opened in December 2016 in Thika, Kenya, was the first SKD facility Volkswagen established as part ...

  Jaguar Land Rover South Africa has boosted the efforts of  the South African Red Cross Society (SARCS) in fighting COVID-19 with 11 vehicles. The deployment of the vehicles is  to keep the Red Cross  mobile in its efforts to control and minimise the spread of the coronavirus . The ...

    The number of electric vehicles (EVs) on our roads is expected to grow exponentially in the short term, so the sooner some basic ground rules for public charging etiquette are laid, the smoother the experience will be for those who drive EVs as well as those who drive ...

Isuzu Motors South Africa (IMSAf) has made its media fleet available to Gift of the Givers in support of the organisation’s plan to augment public health services. Gift of the Givers has set up a COVID-19 testing facility in Johannesburg and intends to extend this service to Durban while also ...

Toyota South Africa, Friday, announced the cancellation of all bookings and appointments for media test-drive and new model launch and drop-off as the country’s 21-day lockdown to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus kicks off. An official statement from the company’s Communications  Team to the media on Friday said: “Around ...

Swedish truckmaker, AB Volvo, Wednesday, announced the  postponement of its already revised Annual General Meeting, citing  the uncertain and accelerating developments in the wake of COVID-19 as the main reason. According to an official statement, the decision of the Board of Directors of AB Volvo was informed by the fact ...