TYRES / AUTO PARTS

What do Soybeans, Tequila, and Pantyhose really have in common? They’re all recycled and used for seats, insulation, and plastic components in Ford cars! From an early age, it was drilled into all of us that recycling is good for the environment. Who hasn’t been through a newspaper drive, collected used ...

(By Olaolu Olusina) Nexteer Automotive, a leader in intuitive motion control, is set to open its first production facility in Africa. The ground-breaking ceremony of the new 18,000 m2 facility located in Kenitra, Morocco, is scheduled to hold later in March 2018. Nexteer said it plans to initially use the facility to ...

Infinity Tyres Limited, Nigeria’s foremost automotive aftermarket sales and services company, has concluded arrangements to open a new retail facility in Kaduna State to cater to the needs of customers and new prospects in the neighbouring States, thus adding yet another outlet to its growing  network of 10 company-owned facility ...

  Modern cars are handsome looking things, but there are people in this world who would like to tear them to pieces. People like Rob Carstairs, an aerodynamicist, at Ford.  “The first thing I’d get rid of is the side mirrors. Off they go, that’d be great.”  Rob’s reason for ...

Bosch Ghana has executed a lease for the new flagship Bosch House at the WestPark in Takoradi, Ghana. Bosch, according to a statement,  is the first Fortune Global 100 company to take space at the WestPark. The custom-built “Bosch House” will be home to seven of Bosch’s world-leading divisions, namely ...

Ford Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, announced that the popular navigation and traffic appWaze will be available to Ford owners globally from April 2018.  With more than 100 million active users, Waze is the world’s largest community-based navigation app, helping drivers to outsmart traffic together. First announced at ...

    As this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) opened this Monday in Barcelona, Spain and running through March 1, the BMW Group said its presentation will be the next steps on the road to digital and intelligent connectivity between the driver and vehicle as its focus will be on ...

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) said it has developed a new continuously variable transmission (CVT), 6-speed manual transmission, 2.0-liter engine, 2.0-liter hybrid system, and 4WD systems based on the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA), a development framework aimed at making ever-better cars. The new technologies, according to the Japanese automaker,  offer ...

… Seals Dealership Deal With Luxury World AutoGroup   Emmanuel Oluwatobi IKA Germany (IKA Industrie- und Kraftfahrzeugausrüstung GmbH), a leading global player in the automotive aftermarket spare parts supplies with customers in over 80 countries, has landed in Ghana . The company has also sealed a dealership deal with Luxury ...

  Volvo has launched its new three-cylinder Drive-E powertrain in the XC40, the company’s first entry into the compact premium SUV segment.  The new powertrain is the first three-cylinder engine in the company’s 91-year history.  The all-new 1.5 litre T3, three-cylinder, direct-injection petrol engine was developed in-house using the same ...