EAST / CENTRAL AFRICA

    Ford employees and dealers across Sub-Saharan Africa sponsored a total of 25 projects in 2018 as they put the spotlight on community service and upliftment  by volunteering their time and efforts to support a wide range of projects as part of Ford’s annual Global Caring Month. The projects ...

  ……Promises a win-win relationship … Our cars are very rugged, suitable for African roads – Estelle Fei   Olaolu OLUSINA (olaolu.olusina@autoreportafrica.com ) Dorcen Automotive Manufacturing Group, a leading Chinese car maker, has restated its commitment to fully launch out into the African markets, saying its cars are elegant, rugged ...

  Dorcen Automotive Manufacturing Group, a leading Chinese car maker, is fully set to launch its new Chinese automobile brand into the African markets, AUTO REPORT AFRICA  can authoritatively confirm. Doreen Auto, which owns two state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the Jiangxi and Jiangsu provinces of China, has also perfected moves ...

It was celebration galore earlier in the week as China’s leading auto maker, Haval, on January 13, hosted the world at the celebration of its milestone:  reaching the Global 5-million-sales cumulative sales mark. The event, which also featured the release of the“521” Globalization Strategic Blueprint of the SUV powerhouse, a ...

      Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer: Porsche AG , has posted a new delivery record, delivering  256,255 vehicles worldwide in 2018 – more than ever before. This represents a growth of four per cent compared to the existing record figures of the preceding year. Of the model series, the ...

…Delivers over 140,000 electrified vehicles in 2018 The BMW Group has reconfirmed its position as the world’s number one premium automotive manufacturer as the Group  achieved its eighth consecutive annual sales record with a total of 2,490,664 (+1.1%) BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce delivered around the world in 2018. Best-ever figures ...

  Mercedes-Benz continues to be the leading premium automobile brand in terms of unit sales. In a challenging year, the company with the three-pointed star increased its global car sales to 2,310,185 units in 2018, its eighth consecutive record year (+0.9%), making Mercedes-Benz the best-selling premium brand in the automotive ...

    Daimler Trucks, the world’s leading truck manufacturer, achieved one of the best sales years in its history in 2018: Based on initial data, unit sales of the Mercedes-Benz, FUSO, Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built Buses and BharatBenz brands increased to well over 500,000 vehicles in 2018 (2017: 470,700). ...

Kia Motors has announced a new partnership with an all-female K-Pop supergroup, BLACKPINK, serving as the title sponsor for the group’s 2019 World Tour in a determined bid to engage music fans across the world.  BLACKPINK is a multinational four-member act that made its debut in 2016 under K-Pop powerhouse ...

The African stage of the Toyota 5 Continents Drive Project has been successfully concluded as Toyota arrived the Toyota South Africa’s Duran Plant last month. Launched in 2014, the project has now covered four of the world’s continents. From spring 2019, the project will move to Asia and embark on ...