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  Mercedes-Benz continues to be the leading premium automobile brand in terms of unit sales. In a challenging year, the company with the three-pointed star increased its global car sales to 2,310,185 units in 2018, its eighth consecutive record year (+0.9%), making Mercedes-Benz the best-selling premium brand in the automotive ...

    Daimler Trucks, the world’s leading truck manufacturer, achieved one of the best sales years in its history in 2018: Based on initial data, unit sales of the Mercedes-Benz, FUSO, Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built Buses and BharatBenz brands increased to well over 500,000 vehicles in 2018 (2017: 470,700). ...

Kia Motors has announced a new partnership with an all-female K-Pop supergroup, BLACKPINK, serving as the title sponsor for the group’s 2019 World Tour in a determined bid to engage music fans across the world.  BLACKPINK is a multinational four-member act that made its debut in 2016 under K-Pop powerhouse ...

The African stage of the Toyota 5 Continents Drive Project has been successfully concluded as Toyota arrived the Toyota South Africa’s Duran Plant last month. Launched in 2014, the project has now covered four of the world’s continents. From spring 2019, the project will move to Asia and embark on ...

Ford Motor Corporation is wrapping up the year 2018 on a good note as the Ford Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) has had a most successful year with over 1, 600 motorists having benefitted from the programme across the Middle East and Africa region, including South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa ...

 Nissan has restated its commitment to working with the Government of Ghana to establish an automotive manufacturing industry in the country. The company also said it would make Ghana its hub for sales and marketing in West Africa as part of its track record of investing in Africa.  2018 Nissan ...

Ford’s Struandale Engine Plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, has commenced production of the new-generation diesel engines that are set to power the new Ford Ranger Raptor and selected Ranger and Everest models that will be launched in the first half of 2019. “With the launch of the new diesel ...

Toyota on Wednesday announced that it had selected 27 projects for the 2018 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Programme . In the 19 years since its introduction in 2000, a cumulative total of 387 projects in 54 countries and regions have received this grant. The programme was introduced to commemorate Toyota ...

The very same hands that by day apply microdots on Isuzu bakkies, has recently crafted a lifelike replica of the Isuzu bakkie out of wire and beads. With strong hands, scarred by some of his wire-work, yet gentle enough to add the most intricate detail and beading to his craft ...

Humble beginnings Sophie Opel (Nee Scheller) in the year of her wedding-1868 Four years after the death of her husband (Adam Opel) in 1895, Sophie Opel decided to start producing cars after listening to the opinions of her sons Carl, Wilhelm and Friedrich Opel. Prior to this, the Opel family ...