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Picanto steals the ‘Lime Light’ for ecstatic winner More than R1,3 million was raised during 2020 with the RSG-Beeld Children’s Fund donation project – the most money raised for the project since its inception in 1997. The annual fundraising raffle – which offers a car as main prize – has ...

JSE-listed Motus, the largest retail motor group in South Africa, is ramping up its brand building strategy after consolidating and restructuring the business in the two years since Motus Holdings was unbundled from Imperial Holdings. The pace of brand building, together with the launch of a string of business innovations, ...

Rio Hatch earns top spot in the subcompact hatchback segment The Kia Rio hatch has earned a 2021 Vincentric Best Value in America Award, ranking number one in the Subcompact Hatchback segment. A leading source of cost-of-ownership data and analysis within the automotive industry, Vincentric determined the winners by analysing ...

 Mercedes-Benz Trucks, a brand of Daimler Trucks & Buses Southern Africa (DTBSA), achieved market leader position in the Heavy-Duty Truck (HDT) segment in 2020 relative direct competitors, despite the blatant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the trucking industry. Maretha Gerber, Head of Mercedes-Benz Trucks, says: “We made bold moves ...

“The most beautiful car I have ever drawn.” Marc Lichte, Head of Audi Design, chose these words in the fall of 2018, when the brand presented the Audi e-tron GT concept as a show car in Los Angeles. Two years later, the first fully electric gran turismo from Audi is ...

Vanlife is trendy and the market is booming, even – or especially – at the present time. In Germany, for instance, new registrations reached a new high in 2020 according to the German Caravaning Industry Association (CIVD), with about 80,000 newly registered motorhomes. The situation is quite similar in the ...

In preparation for its U.S. racing debut, the brand-new Hyundai Elantra N TCR race car was unveiled Thursday by Bryan Herta Autosport at Daytona International Raceway. Already in the Winners Circle, the Elantra N TCR’s road-going sister car, the 2021 Elantra was just named the 2021 North American Car of ...

Goodyear Tyres and TOCA, Series Organiser of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), have announced that Goodyear will continue its long-standing partnership with the BTCC for another five years, through to the end of 2026 and through the introduction of hybrid power to the championship.  This five-year partnership brings with ...

The Incubator Reality has created a lifeline to leapfrog and disrupt Nigerian start-ups to increase their capacity and access to funding via a novelty incubation programme. A statement by ECSCORP, the Incubator’s architect, said the reality TV show, the biggest and first of its kind in the world, seeks to change the ...

Isuzu dealer, CP Nel Motors and Isuzu ChildLife are providing an opportunity for at least 60 disadvantaged young women to participate in the Sea the Change environmental education youth programme. This programme is being piloted by the Oceans Research Foundation with the purpose of promoting skills development and creating environmental ...