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Renault , last week, took the 2019 Captur on tests drive in Greece. As a pioneer on the urban SUV market, the Captur has sold 1.5 million units in more than 90 countries since its launch in 2013. It rapidly became the best seller in its segment, both in France ...

Your child is by far the most precious cargo your vehicle will ever have to carry. We love our children and would never want anything to happen to them, yet here in South Africa, we still boast relatively low awareness towards car seat safety. It’s critical to have your child ...

Mercedes-Benz achieved a new September record last month with 223,838 vehicles sold worldwide (+10.4%). From July to September, a total of 590,514 cars with the three-pointed star were sold, which is the best third quarter in the company’s history (+12.2%). Within just three months, Mercedes-Benz also reversed its sales trend ...

Kingsley Holgate Foundation and  Land Rover  have completed a successful joint ‘Vision Mission’ to the Zambezi Delta in Mozambique. Early in August,  Kingsley Holgate and his Expedition team set off in a pair of Land Rover Discovery SUVs to criss-cross remote Mozambique on a mission to change lives with free ...

  Volkswagen has unveiled its new logo and brand design to reinvigorate the brand in time for a new era of mobility,  under the motto, ‘New Volkswagen’. The new logo and design were unveiled at the 2019 Frankfurt International Motor Show. “The new brand design marks the start of the ...

  Ford has announced the appointment of Achraf El Boustani to an expanded role, as managing director for North Africa (NAF) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). El Boustani will now also oversee the management of Ford’s operations in sub-Saharan Africa from the company’s regional headquarters in Casablanca. Moroccan national Achraf El ...

Hino, the largest truck and bus manufacturer in Japan, has rounded off  a successful 50-day promotional roadshow across four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to increase brand awareness and to build a base for increasing sales in the region. The exercise covered a route of 6 500 km, traversing  Zimbabwe , ...

177,819 Mercedes-Benz cars were delivered worldwide – a new record for the month of August (+14.0%). Significant growth in sales of compact cars continued in August (+28.6%). Renewed year-on-year increase in worldwide deliveries of C- and E-Class Saloons in August. Sales from January to August are approaching the high level ...

Azuri Technologies has been named in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100  league table which ranks the fastest growing technology, media and telecoms companies in the UK. The annual Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s fastest growing privately held companies by sales growth (% per ...

Randy Krieger is finally settling down to real business in Dubai following his appointment by Ford  in July  as President, Direct Markets, a new position which will focus on Ford’s distributor markets. In this new role, Krieger will drive a Distributor Centre of Excellence, which brings together more than 80 ...