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Groupe Renault on Monday announced an impressive half-year sales report with 1.88 million vehicles sold in the first half of 2017, translating to an increase of 10.4% in a market that grew 2.6%. In a statement issued in Boulogne-Billancourt, the group said all its brands posted increases in sales volumes ...

  The journey of the Fiat 500 has been 60 years in the making. The Fiat brand’s ‘great little car’ has travelled from Dante Giacosa’s design desk to the gates of the Mirafiori factory, from the long avenues of Torino to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, after ...

The Jaguar E-PACE is a five-seat compact SUV that packs the design and performance of a Jaguar sports car into a spacious, practical and connected all-wheel-drive vehicle.  Trademark Jaguar driving dynamics and stirring design put the brand’s sports car DNA in a practical design packed with advanced technologies. The E-PACE, ...

Porsche has recorded its most successful first half year in history, reporting an upwards trend in the first six months of 2017. With 126,497 vehicles delivered worldwide, Porsche said in a statement issued in Dubai that it exceeded the record figure from the previous year by seven per cent in ...

Toyota is making good its promise to assemble the 2017 Toyota Fortuner in Egypt as Toyota Egypt, on Monday, inaugurated a $8.5million Toyota Fortuner production line, Enterprise, an Egyptian online business news platform, reported on Tuesday. Quoting Daily News Egypt, Enterprise said Toyota Egypt’s CEO, Ahmed Monsef,  disclosed at the ...

  Renault has marked another milestone; and this time at the Renault-Nissan plant in Tangier, Morocco where it recently rolled the one millionth vehicle, a five-seat, Azurite Blue Dacia Lodgy, powered by a diesel engine, off the plant. The car, according to Renault, was sold to a customer in Turkey. ...

Egypt appears set to revive a stalled legislation, tagged the Automotive Directive, aimed at encouraging local assemblers to move further up the value chain into manufacturing, according to a report by Enterprise, an Egyptian online business platform. The report, which also quoted Youm7, said the country’s Trade Minister Tarek Kabil, ...

 Alfa Romeo Stelvio, the first SUV from the Italian brand, has achieved the coveted Euro NCAP 5-star rating with a 97 percent score in the protection of adult occupants: an excellent result, considering the extremely strict assessment system introduced in 2016. The cockpit of the Stelvio remained stable in the ...

  All-new Fiesta enables drivers to pick the perfect commuting soundtrack with B&O PLAY Songs that sound sad, touch on gloomy themes, or feel melancholy like "Sorry", Justin Bieber; "The Winner Takes it All", Abba; and "Mr Brightside" by The Killers, can kick-start your day with a mood boost that… ...

• Biggest contributions to growth from China, Korea Mercedes-Benz has announced its strongest half-year with sales of more than 1.1 million cars. The biggest contributions to growth during the period, according to the German automaker, came from China and Korea. The company said it was more successful than ever before in a half-year in ...