VINTAGE CARS

      The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), retired Col.Hameed Ali, said that the service has seized 3,665 vehicles from 2015 till date with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of over N13 billion. Ali said this during his lecture titled “Problem of Smuggling and its attendant Consequence on ...

…Top Dignatories Storm Kaduna for Automotive Confab/Exhibition (Olaolu Olusina in Kaduna) The D-Day is here finally as all is ready for the First Kaduna Automotive Stakeholders Conference and Exhibition to fully take-off in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna. The first of its kind in the whole Northern Region, comprising ...

Nissan’s sole distributor in Ghana, Japan Motors Trading Company (Japan Motors), has scored a hat-trick. The company has continued its award-winning streak with its recent win of the 2016 Motor Firm of the Year Award for the third consecutive year.  The Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) conferred the prestigious ...

Coming a few months after the global launch of the seventh generation BMW 5 Series in February, it was a unique launch last Saturday in Lagos as Coscharis Motors Limited hosted patrons and lovers of the BMW brand in the country to a high society launch and test-drive of the ...

Lexus said this Tuesday that it plans to exhibit its soon-to-be-launched, all-new “LS” flagship sedan among 11 production models it intends to display at the 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017, where it also plans to hold the world premiere of a new concept car. A statement issued in Tokyo, Japan ...

 • Emerges fourth biggest automotive brand   Honda is now one of the world’s top 20 brands, according to research by Interbrand in its latest ‘Best Global Brands’ study. Honda has moved up by 3% to be ranked as the 20th most valuable brand in the world. Interbrand puts its value ...

 Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda), Denso Corporation (Denso), and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) last week signed a contract to jointly develop basic structural technologies for electric vehicles. The three companies also decided to establish a new company consisting of selected engineers from the three companies to ensure the efficient implementation of ...

Mercedes-Benz has, once again,  taken the top honours in the top car category of the Consumer Awards at the 19th annual Sunday Times Top Brands Awards which held Wednesday evening at the trendy Hill on Empire Ballroom in Johannesburg. Marketing Director, Mercedes-Benz Cars, Selvin Govender, said, “The Sunday Times Top ...

Mercedes-Benz Vans, in collaboration with US drone systems developer, Matternet and Swiss online marketplace, siroop, has successfully kick-started a pilot project to test an innovative delivery concept for e-commerce goods with vans as connected, mobile landing platforms for drones in Zurich. The pilot project started with first trials on September 25 when a drone delivered a ...

    Indications have emerged that there is a great future for the truck industry in South Africa as several new truck models launches that characterised Friday’s opening of Futuroad, the truck and bus show which is co-located with Automechanika Johannesburg at the Expo Centre, Nasrec, point to this simple ...