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(SEOUL) January 9, 2017 – Kia at an event typically dominated by introductions from American auto companies, Kia Motors America (KMA) today stole the spotlight with the world debut of the all-new 2018 Kia Stinger (hereafter Stinger) at the North American International Auto Show.  A five-passenger fastback sports sedan poised ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With strong sales of the new E-Class Saloon and Estate last month; as the models attained growth of around 40 per cent to a new best-ever figure, Mercedes-Benz is poised to maintaining its strong pace shortly before year-end, achieving double-digit growth in unit sales once again in November. And with ...

All is set for the all-new, fifth-generation Lexus LS flagship sedan  to make a global debut at the 2017 North American International Auto Show next month. Coming 28 years after the LS 400 made a historic debut in 1989 in Detroit thus heralding the birth of the Lexus brand, the ...

Ford has officially unveiled the South African-built model of Everest with its launch on November 28. The launch of the Everest built at the Ford Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria was attended by auto journalists from across Africa . The official unveiling pointed to the fact that Everest is set ...