TYRES / AUTO PARTS

South Africa has opened its first Quick Lane Tyre & Auto Centre in Silverton, Pretoria, thus joining over 1, 018 Quick Lane Tyre and Auto Centres worldwide, and more than 18  other countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Ethiopia and Uganda. Quick Lane ...

    …As Aliyu proffers solutions to industrialisation challenges The National Automotive Design and Development Council, NADDC, has thrown its weight behind the automotive local content conference and exhibition being organised by a transport firm, Routes & Roads Transport Company . The event is scheduled to hold in Kaduna from ...

  Port Elizabeth, May 2017 – Announced as ‘the most spectacular truck competition on the planet’, the 2017 FIA European Truck Racing Championship will again see Goodyear supply its specially developed Truck Racing tyres to all competitors.  The teams finalised their preparation and testing and are ready for the season ...

  The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, on Wednesday inaugurated a speed limit device manufacturing plant in Lekki, Lagos. Oyeyemi said at the inauguration that the plant, the first of its kind in the country, would boost access to the device and thereby help to ...

Tiger Wheel & Tyre has opened its fifth store in Zimbabwe. Situated at 414 Clarke Road, Victoria Falls, the store is owned by Atish Naran & Rishi Magecha and managed by Shepherd Nyathi, who is ably assisted by a team of highly trained sales and fitment personnel.  “We’re excited to ...

Ahead of the publication of its full financial results for the first quarter of 2017 on May 4, the BMW Group, which is made up of three luxury brands, BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce,  said it achieved a profit before tax of € 3,005 million in the first quarter of the ...

Ford Motor Company has donated three vehicles – a Ranger, an Everest and a Figo to the Coscharis’ CG Eko LLP Automobile Training Centre in Ikeja, Lagos. This is a continuation of Ford’s commitment to developing Nigeria’s automotive industry. Ford is unswerving in its efforts to reduce the skills gap ...

Boulos Enterprises  Limited has unveiled the 12th generation Suzuki Super Carry van at its corporate headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos. The company also described the newly-introduced SUZUKI mobile workshop to service the Suzuki Super Carry vehicles as the first of its kind in the country. Boulos said that the Mobile Mechanics ...

A 30-day expedition has achieved the first crossing of the coldest and driest continent on earth by a passenger car. Driving in a standard 2.2-litre diesel Hyundai Santa Fe with limited modifications, Patrick Bergel, the great grandson of legendary polar explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton,  traversed the continent of Antarctica from ...

Hino South Africa has once again in Cape Town celebrated its Sales Executive Knights, describing them as “special people who are making a difference to the lives of others.”  Popularly called the Hino Knights, they are an elite group within the dealer salesforce who are not only excellent salespeople, but ...