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  ……Promises a win-win relationship … Our cars are very rugged, suitable for African roads – Estelle Fei   Olaolu OLUSINA (olaolu.olusina@autoreportafrica.com ) Dorcen Automotive Manufacturing Group, a leading Chinese car maker, has restated its commitment to fully launch out into the African markets, saying its cars are elegant, rugged ...

Mitsubishi Motors South Africa has announced the renewal of its sponsorship of the vehicle of the country’s most successful Blitzboks captain, Philip Snyman, for 2019. Rugby Sevens captain, Snyman, is therefore assured of great peace of mind as he takes on his new challenge in the new Pajero Sport.  Commenting ...

  Volkswagen coasted home with four awards at the fourth annual Cars.co.za Consumer Awards powered by WesBank which held at Kyalami in Johannesburg last week thus making history as the brand with the highest number of category wins in the history of the awards. The brand‘s first win came in ...

INFINITI QX Inspiration Concept is still making waves following its recent debut at the North American International Auto Show, showcasing the future of the brand’s design language for an electrified era. As a follow-up to this unveiling of the QX Inspiration, INFINITI is launching a dual partnership with the ArtCenter ...

Toyota and Panasonic on Tuesday sealed a business-integration contract and a joint-venture contract toward the establishment of a new joint venture related to the automotive prismatic battery business. The deal will see the two companies establish a joint venture, pending approval from the competition-law authorities in the countries and regions ...

    Theirs is really a partnership that works and a worthy collaboration, in deed. But then, those who are not in the know night be asking: How strange! What’s a Porsche 550 Spyder doing in the Mercedes-Benz Museum’s racing corner? But the photomontage (see picture)  of the first racing car ...

Hyundai Motor Group has announced the development and future commercialisation of the world’s first multi-collision airbag system that significantly improves airbag performance in multi-collision accidents. Multi-collision accidents are those in which the primary impact is followed by collisions with secondary objects, such as trees, electrical posts or other vehicles, which ...

A total of 834,121 global visitors were attracted to the Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany  in 2018, according to a report obtained by AUTO REPORT AFRICA. Of those, 109,761 guests attended events like the Summer of Concerts and the Open-Air Cinema. People from all 193 countries of the United Nations have ...

Heritage Bank  Nigeria has explained the reasons for its recent partnership with a leading newspaper group,  Vanguard Media,  on the  2019 edition of  the Vanguard  Economic Discourse, saying to was  in a bid to achieve inclusive economic development in the country. The theme of the discourse was Human Capital Index ...

• Pays dividends, confirmed as one of the fastest growing brands in South Africa   Mahindra South Africa, which has been confirmed as one of the fastest growing brands in South Africa,  has dropped another good news . The company has announced that it capped its best year yet with ...