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Indications have emerged that Kia’s new offering , the all-new Picanto, is a car to watch. Coming ahead of its world premiere scheduled for the 2017 Geneva International Motor Show in March, Kia Motors, Wednesday, released the very first images  of the third-generation Picanto and one of Kia’s global best-selling cars ...

Japanese auto maker, Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tuesday, said its global automobile production has reached 100 million- unit milestone. This, indeed, is no mean feat for a company that  started automobile production in 1963 with the production of the T360 mini-truck and the S500 sports car. A year later, Honda ...

(NAN)  China has launched its first cargo train to London, the China Railway Corporation said. It will take 18 days for the train to reach London from its departure point at  Yiwu West Railway Station in eastern Zhejiang Province. The journey is about 12,000 kilometres. Yiwu is known for producing small commodities, and ...

Following the success of the recent inauguration of its Kenya assembly, Volkswagen has unfolded its plans for Rwanda as the auto maker moved ahead in developing new markets in Africa. The plans which included that of a local vehicle production were unfolded when Volkswagen and the Rwandan Government signed a ...

Twenty-four years after it was first launched as a ‘Light Bus’ in 1963, Toyota ‘Coaster’ is to undergo a model change. Toyota Motor Corporation said it will launch the completely redesigned Toyota Coaster at Toyota dealers (Osaka Toyopet dealers in the Osaka region) nationwide across Japan on January 23, 2017. ...

Ahead of its full unveiling early 2017, Kia Motors has revealed the first design details of the third-generation Picanto, one of Kia’s global best-selling cars.  The new Picanto, Kia’s all-new A-segment city car,  combines a youthful and energetic new exterior and interior design with greater potential for customer personalisation, inside ...

History was made, Wednesday, December 21, 2016, as the first locally produced vehicle, a Polo Vivo, rolled off the production line as Volkswagen inaugurated its vehicle production facility in Kenya. . The epoch-making event is indeed an indication that  Volkswagen is already forging ahead with the regionalisation of its worldwide ...

Mercedes- Benz has revealed the plan to make its exclusive S-Class coupé even more exclusive with the introduction of the ‘Night Edition’ of the S-Class Coupé  to the European market by April 2017 while the U.S. launch is billed for August 2017. And with effect from January 9, 2017, this ...

The Volkswagen Group has honoured 45 trainees from 19 countries as  its annual “Best Trainee Awards 2016” were presented to these young top achievers from all over the world at the VW Group headquarters in Wolfsburg recently.  The 45 award winners, made up of nine young women and 36 young ...

Kia Motors has won two 2016 GOOD DESIGN awards, one for the Telluride Concept and the other for the production of Cadenza sedan. The awards were won in the ‘Transportation’ category of the GOOD DESIGN awards organised annually by The Chicago Athenaeum.  This is the seventh consecutive year in which ...