SEGMENT ANALYSIS

Ford Motor Company on Friday announced the appointment of  Minesh Bhagaloo, Product Communications Manager for the Sub-Saharan Africa region as the Interim Head of the Communications Department for Ford in South Africa and SSA. The appointment, which takes effect from March 1, 2019 will see Bhagaloo take over from Rella Bernardes, ...

  Isuzu Motors South Africa is stepping up efforts to improve South Africa’s best-selling truck brand in the Medium Commercial and Heavy Commercial Vehicle segment for the past six years. This is as  Isuzu now offers the widest range of truck models in this market segment and is the leading ...

Leading German auto giants, the BMW Group and Daimler AG, have agreed to collaborate on exploring next-generation technologies for automated driving. According to a Memorandum of Understanding signed recently by the two auto giants to jointly develop this technology, which is key for future mobility,  the initial focus will be ...

  There is no doubt that the new Jaguar XE is a hyper-real work of art as Jaguar has revealed the new XE saloon in a unique fashion, by commissioning a series of highly detailed paintings which blur the lines between art and reality. The trio of hyper-real images show ...

Groupe PSA has appointed Olivier Bourges, the Group’s Executive Vice President of Programmes and Strategy, as a member of the Managing Board , effective from 1 March 2019 until the Managing Board’s term of office expires on 2 April 2021. A statement from the French car maker said “As of 1 March 2019, the Managing Board will once ...

  Porsche said on Wednesday that plans are underway to ensure that the next generation of the Porsche Macan will be electric as it begins work to bring electric mobility to its Leipzig assembly plant in Saxony. The announcement came following the decision of the Supervisory Board of Porsche AG  ...

  Renault F1 Team on Wednesday  revealed  its full driver line-up for the 2019 FIA Formula 1 World Championship .The Team said Nico Hülkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo will be joined by Sergey Sirotkin as Reserve Driver, with Jack Aitken as Test Driver. It added that the quartet will be complemented ...

  Fiat has chosen the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show which holds from March 7 – 17  to celebrate its 120th year anniversary. The global show has also been chosen as the prestigious stage for hosting the presentation of its new 500 “120th” family, the most elegant, best-connected range ever. ...

…As SA built Ranger tops LCV exports, emerges best-selling pickup in Europe     International demand for Ford’s trend-setting Ranger pickup reached an all-time high in 2018, with Ford’s Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria shipping a total of 68, 364 units to export markets – a substantial 16.2 per cent  ...

  Mitsubishi Motors  South Africa has welcomed the all-new Eclipse Cross as one of the best looking cars out of Japan has arrived the local market with the aim of eclipsing many direct competitors in the compact luxury SUV segment.  Boasting Mitsubishi’s unique Super All-Wheel Control (S-AWC), the all-new Eclipse ...