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Tata Bolt earns 4-star global safety rating

Barely two years after it was introduced into the South Africa local market,  Indian popular brand, Tata Bolt sedan, has passed the Global New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP) safety tests. This feat is coming in a market where some  lower cost models are being faulted for a lack of standard ...

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All-new Ford GT Supercar’s digital instrument display is the dashboard of the future

  LAGOS, Nigeria – Like the glass cockpit in airplanes and race cars, the all-new Ford GT features an all-digital instrument display in the car’s dashboard that quickly and easily presents information to the driver, based on five special driving modes. The innovative 10-inch wide digital instrument display is far advanced ...

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Meet Okan Altan: The Turkish journalist who pulled ‘unstoppable’ Tipo through 22 countries and 122 cities in 133 days

Okan Altan and Fiat Tipo have just made history. The 48-year-old Turkish auto journalist and editor has just completed an amazing world tour with the ‘unstoppable’ Fiat Tipo, pulling the standard-specification Fiat Tipo through an amazing journey of 41,000 km – the same distance as the earth’s circumference – in ...

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Triple triumph for Kia at iF Design Awards 2017

        (SEOUL) February 7, 2017 – Kia has won threeprestigious iF Design Awards for the outstanding design of its latest vehicles. The Niro hybrid crossover, Optima Sportswagon and all-new Rio supermini have all received prizes for product design. 2017 is the eighth consecutive year in which Kia ...

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Melissa McCarthy and the all-new Kia Niro embark on a “Hero’s Journey” in Kia Motors’ Super Bowl commercial

Super Bowl (SEOUL) February 2, 2017 – A breaching whale. A falling tree. A charging rhinoceros. These are just some of the extreme challenges Melissa McCarthy faces in Kia Motors’ Super Bowl ad for the all-new 2017 Niro crossover. Debuting online today, “Hero’s Journey” is scheduled to air in the ...

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Toyota puts fuel cell forklifts to work at Motomachi plant

Toyota Motor Corporation, Tuesday, said it has started using two fuel cell forklifts, which have been manufactured by Toyota Industries Corporation, at its Motomachi Plant located in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Fuel cell forklifts, which utilises hydrogen to generate electricity, have excellent environmental performance as they do not emit ...

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Revealed: Why Ford GT is the fastest Ford Production vehicle on the track

Have you been wondering why the new Ford GT is the fastest Ford Production vehicle on the track ? There is no need to worry as what really makes the Ford GT tick includes its delivery of the highest output of any EcoBoost® production engine to date. Little wonder then ...

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SA’s celebs experience Car of the Year Finalist on Kyalami Racetrack

Johannesburg – Opel Astra, winner of the European Car of the 2016 and finalists in the 2017 Wesbank South African Guild of Motoring Journalists Car of the Year competition, was the showcase of the day as local celebrities demonstrated their driving expertise around the Kyalami Racetrack on Wednesday. Launched in ...

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Real reason CAF ordered 16 MAN Lion’s Coaches for Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon

  Indications have emerged on the reason the Confédération of African Football (CAF), organisers of the Africa Cup of Nations, ordered 16 MAN Lion’s Coaches for the 2017 tournament currently going on in Gabon. #AutoReportAfrica gathered that the buses which had since been delivered and are presently being deployed as team ...

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Toyota’s hydrogen-powered future campaign lands in Canada with three Mirai FCEVs

Toyota is bringing three Mirai fuel cell electric cars (FCEVs) to Canada as the Mirai awareness campaign kicked off last weekend at the 2017 Montréal International Auto Show. The move by the Japanese car maker is in continuation of its hydrogen-powered future awareness campaign, which would be followed by other major ...

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