SEGMENT ANALYSIS

  Mercedes-Benz continues to be the leading premium automobile brand in terms of unit sales. In a challenging year, the company with the three-pointed star increased its global car sales to 2,310,185 units in 2018, its eighth consecutive record year (+0.9%), making Mercedes-Benz the best-selling premium brand in the automotive ...

The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers South Africa (NAAMSA)  Tuesday described year 2018 as “a challenging year characterised by subdued domestic sales offset by growth in vehicle exports.” The Association stated this in its review of 2018 new vehicle sales and vehicle exports in the country  as it projected a ...

Toyota Mobility Foundation on Monday announced five finalists in the three-year Mobility Unlimited Challenge as they were unveiled at Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Toyota Mobility Foundation launched the $4 million global challenge in 2017 in partnership with Nesta’s Challenge Prize Centre, with the aim of improving the ...

Ahead of its January 14 reveal at the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, INFINITI has been flaunting its electrified future, the new QX Inspiration. The new concept, according to INFINITY, represents the brand’s plans for high-performance electrified vehicles, offering complete range confidence while signaling a new era ...

For the newly-formed DS TECHEETAH team, there is great excitement in the air as Formula E returns to the majestic streets of Marrakesh and the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan for the third consecutive year, just a few minutes away from the world-famous medina and souks. This follows the ...

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation are bringing their new concept of electric vehicle wireless charging system with the Automated Valet Parking System (AVPS) to the 2019 CES trade show in Las Vegas. The system will offer a convenience to drivers who are faced with an overcrowding of both ...

Ahead of the rookie test to be conducted by the ABB FIA Formula E season at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan on Sunday, January 13, the day after the Marrakesh E-Prix, DS TECHEETAH weekend named James Rossiter and Tatiana Calderón  its rookie drivers. This will make it the ...

Next week, the bright lights of Las Vegas will once again shine on the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) when it introduces the TRI-P4 automated driving test vehicle on Jan. 7 at CES. The P4 is based on the all-new fifth-generation Lexus LS flagship sedan and will be used in TRI’s ...

    Daimler Trucks, the world’s leading truck manufacturer, achieved one of the best sales years in its history in 2018: Based on initial data, unit sales of the Mercedes-Benz, FUSO, Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built Buses and BharatBenz brands increased to well over 500,000 vehicles in 2018 (2017: 470,700). ...

  The entire team of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport on Thursday, January 3, 2019, congratulated Michael Schumacher as he clocked 50. On 3 January 1969, a boy named Michael Schumacher was born in the small town of Hürth, Germany – a boy, who would go on to become the most successful ...