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Ford South Africa sold 5 595 vehicles in March 2018, earning an overall market share of 11.4%. Ford retained its position as the third-best selling brand for the month, with a year-to-date share of 11.4% . Total new vehicle sales reached 49 233 units in March 2018, improving by 1.1% ...

  .… Nine million Visitors – Plus more than 300 Gospel Singers   The Wecke family from Stuttgart-Birkach on Sunday purchased the nine millionth admission ticket to the Mercedes-Benz Museum. The jubilee visit was not the only surprise this Sunday. On 8 April 2018, the “Gospel in the East” choir ...

Opel Vauxhall Finance (OVF), the automotive finance organisation of Opel and Vauxhall, has started its business activities in Spain. Supported by its experienced partners and shareholders, Banque PSA Finance and BNP Paribas Personal Finance, OVF will offer competitive and innovative automotive finance products and mobility solutions to Spanish costumers and ...

ViaVan has launched its shared ride service in London.  ViaVan said it will henceforth offer its innovative on-demand ridesharing service as an ecologically and economically valuable addition to the existing mobility services in the capital. Last year, ViaVan, the joint venture of Mercedes-Benz Vans and the US based start-up Via, announced ...

Mahindra South Africa has announced the appointment of Mr Rajesh Gupta as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Rajesh’s appointment follows earlier announcement of the erstwhile CEO, Mr Sanjoy Gupta, resuming the role of Vice President: Customer Care Automotive Division back in Mahindra & Mahindra India. Mahindra has been operating ...

      Mercedes-Benz sold 237,307 cars in March, surpassing its sales record from the prior-year month by 3.9%. March was the strongest-selling month that the company has ever achieved and the past three months were the most successful quarter of all time with a total of 594,304 customers taking ...

…As Alain Raposo Becomes Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Chassis Engineering   PSA Groupe, the French carmaker,  has appointed Christian Chapelle as Senior Vice President, Monozukuri Operations department for the Middle East & Africa region. Chapelle, whose appointment took effect from April 1, will report to Jean Christophe Quémard, Executive Vice President, ...

  It was yet another milestone for the Rosslyn plant of the BMW Group South Africa this week as the first unit of the new BMW X3 rolled off the production line at the facility. This is coming just a few months after the plant ended the production of the ...

   It was really a good outing for Alfa Romeo at the just- concluded “Kyoto 2018 Concours d’Elegance” in Japan, where emblematic classic models from three continents came together from 29 March to 3 April. Hosted in Kyoto’s 17th Century Nijō Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the event was ...

Groupe PSA’s light commercial vehicle strategy which requires additional manufacturing capacity is about paying off .This is as the performance plan of the French carmaker is set to produce commercial vehicles in profitable conditions at the Luton plant in UK. This is coming as the convergence of Opel/Vauxhall LCV models ...