SEGMENT ANALYSIS

  The South African new car industry appears to be picking up according to figures recently released by the National Automobile Association of South Africa (NAAMSA). Sales for April 2019 , according to NAAMSA, rose 0.7 per cent compared to April 2018. This is the first increase in sales this ...

Apparently, many workers did not know that on May 1, 1926, Ford Motor Company adopted a new five-day, 40-hour work week for its factory workers, without a cut in wages, thus allowing them to rest at weekends.  In commemoration of the International  Worker’s Day, we bring you a special message ...

Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday released an emotionally appealing film on the new Mercedes-Benz CLA Coupe, tagged Play by your rules, as the Stuttgart-based luxury carmaker tries to couple the sales release of the new CLA Coupé with this appealing film. Coming ahead of the commencement of global deliveries of the new ...

…As auto dealers issue one-month ultimatum to government Emmanuel Yartey Former Ghanaian president, John Mahama, who is also the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential Candidate for the 2020 General Elections in the country, has promised to abolish the luxury tax on vehicles with bigger engines, if voted into power. The ...

    Jaguar’s highest performance SUV, the F-PACE SVR, is already in South Africa and ready to roar into action at the country’s public debut by competing at the Jaguar Simola Hillclimb in Knysna on May 4 and 5.  A pair of Indus Silver SVRs will contest the SUV and ...

  This year’s coveted award of the Grand Prix du Jury Première Vision for talented young designers at the 34th International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion Accessories in Hyères has gone to Christoph Rumpf from Austria. Aside the 20,000 euros prize money from Première Vision and the patronage of ...

  The countdown to this year’s edition of the International Spirit of Amarok competition taking place in August has started in earnest. South Africa is tackling Botswana and Namibia to produce the two teams that will be representing Southern Africa in the annual competition. And now, amateur 4×4 drivers in ...

Nicolas Morel, currently Senior Vice President of Vehicles Projects and Life Series at Groupe PSA,  has been appointed to succeed Gilles Le Borgne, Executive Vice President Quality and Engineering, who is billed to leave Groupe PSA on May 2 for personal reasons. Morel, who has held important positions in various ...

The holiday season is finally rounding off and parents are already preparing their children to return to school with shoppings on the cards for many families. Aside this, when it comes to raising the blood pressure, for parents, the weekly shop is right up there with getting the kids to ...

Hino South Africa has continued to take the lead in the quarterly Data Track comparative truck study, taking top spot in the Combined score for the third successive quarter, as well as scoring highest in two of the three categories – Service and Parts. Hino’s Combined score for the first ...