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Groupe Renault, in partnership with the Sofibrie Group (Havard family), has inaugurated its first ‘Renault City’ concept store in the Val d’Europe shopping centre in Seine-et-Marne. With this new experimental but sustainable format, located in the heart of a major shopping area, Renault is establishing itself as close as possible ...

Groupe PSA Wednesday okayed the proposal submitted by PSA Motorsport and supported by the Peugeot brand to contest the FIA World Endurance Championship, the eight-round calendar of which concludes with the Le Mans 24 Hours. The significant cost savings permitted by the WEC’s new Hypercar regulations and the confirmation that ...

Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) has partnered with  Isuzu Motors South Africa on a Black Supplier Development programme with a black-owned supplier, Algoa Components Manufacturers (ACM). The arrangement is in accordance with the Japanese spirit of Kyodo. ACM, the Port Elizabeth-based, black-owned supplier of fuel fillers, side impact beams and ...

  Over the past three decades, the spread of the Internet has radically changed the world and everything it touches, including the automotive industry. Vehicle network connectivity features have changed the way we live, work and drive. Connected cars today have the power of 20 PCs and contain more than ...

Autotalks, a world leader in V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication solutions, has successfully showcased its chipset’s conformance to the Chinese C-V2X standard and the Chinese OSCCA security standard in the first-ever large-scale interoperability demonstration of multi-brand C-V2X communication. This demo brought together over 20 automotive companies which formed about 50 demonstration teams ...

  Israeli startup, Hi Auto, is emerging out of stealth mode in order to demonstrate the world’s first audio-visual commercial solution for speaker separation and speech enhancement in vehicles, which is aimed at solving the reliability problem of voice-based vehicle control in noisy environments. Hi Auto has completed a $4.5 million ...

   When it comes to choosing the right tyre for their vehicles, consumers need to understand what to look for, says Dries Lottering, Manufacturing Renewal Executive, Bridgestone South Africa. “Tyres look pretty much alike, especially to the untutored eye, but it’s what goes into them that makes all the difference,” ...

Your child is by far the most precious cargo your vehicle will ever have to carry. We love our children and would never want anything to happen to them, yet here in South Africa, we still boast relatively low awareness towards car seat safety. It’s critical to have your child ...

  IKA Germany, a leading global player in the automotive parts business, is now the official aftermarket distributor of Starter Motors and Alternators from the leading OEM supplier, SEG Automotive GmbH. The German company is therefore calling on its customers in over 80 countries across the globe to avail themselves ...

Nissan has developed a new way to use robots to make car parts out of sheet steel, a breakthrough that could make replacement parts for discontinued models more widely available for customers. Nissan said it hopes to commercialise the proprietary technique, known as dual-sided dieless forming. The technique involves two ...