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Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) has collaborated with the Read Educational Trust to support its Rally to Read education initiative in Mpumalanga. At a recent campaign in the Hazyview area, representatives from Ford joined the Rally to Read team during their visits to ten schools in the White ...

  …Records best-ever year in 2018 Lexus this Monday announced  the sale of its 10 millionth vehicle , a landmark achievement that came shortly after a strong 2018 year-end sales performance with Lexus achieving multiple best-ever sales goals around the globe. In addition, the brand that pioneered the world’s first ...

Italian car maker, Fiat, has rolled the 500,000th unit of Fiat Tipo  off the Bursa plant in Turkey . The milestone car is a Tipo 5-Door Sport equipped with the 120 HP 1.6 Multijet DCT engine and featuring the striking passion red paintwork combined with contrasting Black roof and new ...

PETRONAS Lubricants International (PLI), the global lubricants manufacturing and marketing arm of PETRONAS, the national oil corporation of Malaysia, has made a bold entry into the hybrid car engine market with the launch of  the new range of PETRONAS Syntium with °CoolTech™ at its state-of-the-art Research & Technology Centre in ...

      Despite the current headwinds affecting the industry in several markets, the BMW Group achieved its strongest-ever start to a year with a total of 170,463 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce cars delivered to customers worldwide in January. The BMW Group has therefore started 2019 on  a positive sales result ...

    All appears to be set for the first round of South Africa’s most successful racing series as the Falken Polo Cup is ready to roll with the recent announcement that Falken Tyres will become the headline sponsor of the racing series for 2019. And no fewer than  25 ...

  Groupe PSA, the French automobile giant, was a key contributor to France’s trade balance in 2018, with a surplus of €4.9 billion. The five vehicle assembly plants produced 1.2 million vehicles, an increase of 6.4 per cent on 2017, representing close to one-third of the Group’s worldwide vehicle production. ...

      Weststar Associates Limited, the general authorised distributors for Mercedes-Benz in Nigeria,  said on Thursday in Lagos, that  it was fully ready to introduce the new A-Class sedan into the local market. The announcement came as Mercedes-Benz continues to expand its compact car portfolio with the introduction of ...

In a move to further boost local empowerment , Continental, the tyre manufacturing giant,  has announced that its local subsidiary, ContiTech South Africa,  has increased its local empowerment ownership in South Africa, through the transformation of its shareholding to a 51 per cent black and 31 per cent  black female ...

Indications have emerged that Isuzu bakkies are pushing up the market share for Isuzu in Zimbabwe as sales figures recently released are pointers to the fact that Zimbabweans really love their bakkies, especially the Isuzu Double Cab bakkie. According to the sales figures for 2018,  a quarter of the bakkies ...