TYRES / AUTO PARTS

Tiger Wheel & Tyre has assured motorists in South Africa that bending a wheel on a pothole or dinging it on a kerb need not mean the end of the road for that wheel and its owner’s budget as several of its stores offer on-site Wheel CollisionT repair, while select ...

Takata, the 84-year-old Japanese automotive supplier, may have hit the end of the road as the company has filed for bankruptcy in Japan and the U.S, according to a report by Financial Times (FT). The company, which had been overwhelmed by many lawsuits and over $10bn liabilities as costs of ...

For the second consecutive year , Hino South Africa, which has stamped its footprints for after-sales service in the local truck market, has won in the parts and service categories in the Hino International Parts and Service Distributor of the Year contest. The award was instituted a few years ago ...

  A new management team has been announced for Polestar as the Volvo Cars’ performance division moves to become a new, global, separately-branded, high-performance electrified car company, thus marking the latest stage in Volvo’s ongoing transformation.  And in a move to drive the development of the brand, Volvo Cars also ...

  Stocks and shares are just so over. These days, savvy savers are going alternative. So-called “passion” investments, such as fine wine, art and vintage watches, are where it’s at if you want a faster return on your cash.  You can also carry your investment around with you – far ...

Jetvan Automobiles Limited, Weststar’s sole dealer of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter buses in Nigeria, on Thursday, announced a 50 percent service discount on labour and diagnostics for its customers on Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans brought for after-sales service at the company in the week running to the end of Ramadan. The Managing Director, ...

Preparations for the  2017 WesBank SA Motoring Experience are already gathering momentum as organisers rev up the content for the event scheduled to hold at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit from September 1-3. The SA Festival of Motoring is hosting this event, which is the only industry-endorsed motor show on ...

A new wave piston design which lowers fuel consumption in engines of Volvo trucks has won the Volvo Technology Award 2017. The engineers behind the innovation have also been honoured for the design which added waves to the piston crown to improve the use of oxygen thus enabling the Group’s ...

Coscharis Motors, Jaguar Land Rover sole agent in Nigeria, Tuesday, announced a 10 percent rebate on its Jaguar Land Rover parts with the discount offer on suspension and filters from now till June 30, 2017. The aim, according to the dealership,  is to help cushion the cost of replacing these ...

Kia Motors Corporation has expressed confidence in the Ethiopian economy, which recently overtook that of Kenya to emerge as the economic powerhouse of  East Africa. On Thursday, at a ceremony in the Lideta area of Addis Ababa, the nation’s capital,  the Korean carmaker opened a new community-run auto mechanic training ...