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Citroën secure another podium finish with Lappi-Ferm as runners-up

A highly combative performance on Sunday’s final leg in their C3 WRC saw Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm hold off the attacks of their fiercely competitive rivals to secure second place overall, their first podium for Citroën Total World Rally Team. Recent winners of the Rallye Monte-Carlo, Sébastien Ogier and ...

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Volkswagen fortifies Golf’s top model with extra power

    Volkswagen has given an extra power to Golf R, the Golf’s top model, as it now comes with an extra 15kW of power thus making its power output to stand at 228kW. In the four decades since its first launch in South Africa, over 350, 000 Golfs have been ...

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Daimler Trucks records best-ever unit sales, revenue, earnings in 2018

… Further growth in unit sales expected for 2019 The year 2018 was, apparently, the most successful year in the history of Daimler Trucks to date, with record unit sales, revenue and earnings (EBIT). Daimler’s truck division increased its unit sales by 10 percent to 517,300 vehicles in the year under ...

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Isuzu celebrates a year of milestone in South Africa

    Isuzu is looking back at its impressive performance and transformation in South Africa in the past one year and is therefore celebrating a year of milestone in the country. Its investment in the country has preserved 1,000 direct jobs and secured around 4,000 jobs through its network of ...

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Mercedes-Benz eActros begins distribution work in Southern Germany

  With the fully electric eActros truck,  Mercedes-Benz Trucks has  demonstrated that it is already possible today to complete heavy distribution tasks locally emission-free and quietly in the Murg valley in Southern Germany. The official handover of the eActros to regionally based logistics company, Logistik Schmitt, took place early in ...

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New Ford Ranger rolls off Ford’s Silverton Assembly Plant in South Africa

    The new Ford Ranger has started rolling off Ford’s Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria thus bringing a raft of product upgrades and refinements to one of South Africa’s best-selling vehicles and export models. “Following the investment of over R3-billion in our local operations and extensive upgrades to our ...

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Isuzu SA consolidates bakkie and truck plant

Creating a more efficient footprint, Isuzu Motors South Africa has officially launched its consolidated truck and bakkie manufacturing plant. The R27-million project of relocating the Isuzu truck production facilities from Kempston Road in Port Elizabeth to Isuzu Motors South Africa’s headquarters in Struandale, Port Elizabeth, ensures all bakkie and truck ...

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BusTech Challenge 2019: How 51-year-old Belgian emerged the best bus mechanic

 Fifty-one-year-old  Joris Keymeulen  is simply the best as the Belgian  took the top step on the podium at the 2019 “BusTech Challenge” recently. in Neu-Ulm. The internal competition for bus mechanics is held every two years by Daimler Buses. He managed to set himself apart from the other competitors from 17 ...

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PAN Learning Centre graduates 80 UNDP TSAP trainees in Kaduna

The PAN Learning Centre (PLC), the training arm of PAN Nigeria, assemblers of Peugeot vehicles in the country, on Tuesday , graduated 80 trainees of United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Technical Skill Acquisition Programme (TSAP) Batch B, at an elaborated ceremony attended by the UNDP Country Representative for Nigeria, Ms ...

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Again, Ford gets recognition as Global Sustainability Leader in Water and Climate Change efforts

 Ford Motor Company has received an A grade for its water security efforts from CDP, the environmental impact nonprofit that drives sustainable economies. This marks the fourth year in a row Ford has earned an A from CDP for its water management efforts. Ford is the only automaker and one of ...

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