SAFETY / CAR CARE

Jaguar Land Rover has completed a zero emissions tour of its UK manufacturing and product development facilities to celebrate its operations being certified as carbon neutral for the second consecutive year. An all-electric Jaguar I-PACE completed a zero emissions tour from Gaydon to Halewood, visiting the company’s Whitley headquarters, the ...

    Hyundai Motor Company, Monday,  announced the expansion of its partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its support of the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Programme . Hyundai said its commitment aims to increase technical collaboration to better understand challenges and to collect and publish independently ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Wednesday warned fleet operators in Nigeria who tamper with the calibrated Speed Limiting Devices (SLD) in their vehicles for economic benefits to desist or face the consequences. The Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement issued by the Corps Public Education ...

  The 2020 Eclipse Cross has received the highest-possible overall score, a 5-Star Overall Safety Rating, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s most recent round of crash testing. NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP) has set the standard for vehicle safety ratings for more than 30 years. Both ...

  Autotalks, a world leader in V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication solutions, Wednesday, said its chipset had been selected for a mass C-V2X programme in China, one of the first to be deployed in the huge Chinese market. This, according to the company, is the first mass-production C-V2X programme for Autotalks, which ...

  If you’re a bakkie-driving cyclist, then the sky is almost the limit when it comes to finding a Thule solution for transporting your favourite two-wheeler… So the 41 000 who purchased a Hilux, the 25 000 who purchased a Ranger, or the 16 000 who opted for the D-Max ...

With Whipple’s third-generation blower bolted in place, RGMotorsport’s Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 6.4 Hemi upgrade produces a Trackhawk-whipping 546kW and 928Nm – enough to propel the burly SUV to 100 km/h in an estimated 3,6 seconds and to a top speed of 290 km/h. That’s the news from South Africa’s ...

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has been recognized for its efforts in the area of water management by the environmental organization CDP. CDP Tuesday named Nissan to its 2019 water security `A List’ of leading companies. The organization commended Nissan for efforts including: risk assessment of water at production sites across ...

  Isuzu Motors South Africa in Port Elizabeth has started supplying knocked down (KD) Isuzu D-MAX pick-up kits for assembly purposes to its Isuzu manufacturing facility in Kenya. This represents the first intra-continental regional trade exchange of its kind for Isuzu on the continent and is aligned to its strategy ...

  Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) said it is boosting the country’s struggling economy with a cumulative R4, 28 billion investment between 2019 and 2021. This was disclosed during  its third edition of the State of the Motor Industry (SOMI) address which held in Kyalami last week. The current wave ...