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Mike Fuller, Kariega Game Reserve manager ‘Anywhere Is Possible’ is General Tire’s bold pay-off line, promising exceptional all-round performance and the ability to conquer the most demanding off-road conditions. Proving that it’s a genuine brand promise rather than marketing-inspired jargon, the adventurous American brand’s formidable 4×4 range has been selected ...

Guess what! The 2019 German Car of the Year is not one of the well-known German machines. Yes ! Rather, Jaguar’s first electric vehicle, the I-PACE, has won the ‘German Car of the Year’ award against 58 competitors even as the car has also been shortlisted for the Women’s World ...

Coscharis Motors, exclusive distributor for Ford in Nigeria, has  unveiled the new EcoSport compact sports utility vehicle (SUV) at the  Abuja International Motor Fair. “We are thrilled to introduce the new Ford EcoSport to the Nigerian market,” said Abiona Babarinde, General Manager, Marketing and Corporate Communications at Coscharis Motors. “The vehicle comes ...

 The consequences of blocking the progress of emergency vehicles – and delaying their arrival at the scene of an accident – could prove fatal. In fact, experts believe that survival rates for road accident victims can be improved by as much as 40 per cent if they receive treatment just four ...

Toyota on Tuesday took another important step towards a broader hydrogen society by announcing that it will provide its hydrogen fuel cell technology to Caetanobus SA in Portugal. In line with its vision of a decarbonised society―as stated in its 2050 environmental challenge, Toyota is promoting the application of its ...

A unique Mercedes-Benz Unimog is on the rails in Magdeburg as the first new-generation Unimog with a crewcab and conversion to a road/rail vehicle has just been handed over to the Magdeburg transportation company, Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH & Co. KG (MVB) at the “Innotrans” show in Berlin. Birgit Münster-Rendel, general ...

Mercedes-Benz Tourismo, Europe’s No. 1 high-deck top-selling touring coach, has won the overall best in this year’s IBC test, the International Bus & Coach Competition. Unveiled last year, the all-new Mercedes-Benz Tourismo won the renowned comparative test with a clear lead, scoring against famous competitors on the key criteria. Clear overall ...

In what has been described a world first in the manufacturing industry, Groupe PSA and EasyMile have begun a trial on an autonomous tow tractor. The technology on trial is one illustration of the 4.0 industry solutions that the French car maker’s Sochaux plant aims to adopt as part of its Sochaux 2022 transformation ...

  The 2018 South Africa Festival of Motoring, which held from the 31 August to 2 September, proved bigger and better than ever before as the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit, once again, hosted the annual festival, the third since 2016. The Festival of Motoring, which is the only national, industry-supported ...

Recent industry automobile research has indicated  that the JAC T6 pickup exporting quantity has , so far, reached above 2,400 units in 2018. This is a 50-percent growth compared with the previous year. At present, JAC T6 is ranking in No.3 in all Chinese pickup exportation. This is the third ...