SPECIAL REPORTS

  Hyundai Motor Group’s Chief Design Officer, Luc Donckerwolke, has been presented with the DESIGNBEST award. The presentation was made at the 19th edition of the AUTOBEST awards. Donckerwolke therefore becomes the newest member of AUTOBEST’s ‘DESIGNBEST Hall of Fame’ dedicated to the most successful designers in the automotive industry. Luc ...

Ford Motor Company, in collaboration with GE Healthcare, said it will begin producing in Michigan a third-party ventilator with the goal to produce 50,000 of the vitally needed units within 100 days and up to 30,000 a month thereafter as needed. Ford said it will provide its manufacturing capabilities to ...

  LIQUI MOLY CEO, Ernst Prost, is surely passionate, not only about his job and the company,  but also about the well-being of his workers, who,  he actually calls  his colleagues. Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and the attendant health and economic challenges across the globe, the Managing ...

  The COVID-19 pandemic is having a far-reaching and devastating impact on communities around the world, and governments, hospitals, clinics and healthworkers are being stretched well beyond their capacities as they strive to care for those infected with the coronavirus. It’s in these circumstances that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play a ...

  Nissan has appointed Guillaume Cartier as Senior Vice President and Chairman of its Africa, Middle East, and India region (AMI) and Head of the Global Datsun Business Unit. His appointment takes effect from 1 April 2020. In this role, Cartier will lead the regional management committee and be responsible ...

Isuzu Motors South Africa (IMSAf)  has restated its full support to the measures which have been implemented by President Cyril Ramaphosa during the lockdown period to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the country. The company said it recognised that during this critical period, it is important that essential services ...

Three years after Volkswagen ventured into Sub Saharan Africa, the brand’s assembly facility in Kenya is going strong as the automaker has deepened its market share in the country. The assembly facility, which was opened in December 2016 in Thika, Kenya, was the first SKD facility Volkswagen established as part ...

LIQUI MOLY Managing Director, Ernst Prost, has stated that motor oils and additives are systemically relevant, stressing that they are invisible but important helpers during this corona crisis. Maintaining  that though public and private transport  is restricted in many places,  with significantly fewer cars on the road, the boss of the ...

    Nigeria-based Plogging Club and U-Recycle have emerged, along with eight others, as the  2020 #RecyclingHeroes winners on Global Recycling Day. Each of the 10 organisations won a $1,000 prize to contribute towards their recycling initiatives. To mark the Global Recycling Day on 18 March, the Global Recycling Foundation  revealed ...

Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF), an independent not for profit foundation aimed at enabling mobility for all, has unveiled its plan to provide 10 connected and sanitised shuttle buses, free of charge,  to  hospitals treating COVID-19 cases in Thailand. The plan is part of the latger efforts to contain the COVID-19 ...