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Kia offers 5-year warranty, other competitive deals on Made-in-Nigeria Rio

  Kia Motors Nigeria is fast responding to the ban on imported used cars  through the land borders, stressing the need for Nigerians to upgrade to a highly affordable made-in-Nigeria new cars. Kia now offers a five-year warranty and other competitive deals on its Rio, hoping that the warranty on ...

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Kia Motors reveals all-new Stinger, Picanto and two plug-in hybrids in Geneva

(SEOUL) March 7, 2017 – Today at the 2017 Geneva International Motor Show, Kia Motors unveils four new models. The new Kia Stinger fastback sports sedan makes its European premiere, alongside the all-new Kia Picanto city car, which makes its global debut. Advanced powertrain technology features in two other new ...

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PHOTO NEWS: Volkswagen Uitenhage produces its 1, 250, 000th Polo

Thomas Schaefer, Chairman and Managing Director of Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) together with employees and management of vehicle assembly give thumbs up to welcome the 1, 250, 000th Polo produced at the Volkswagen’s Uitenhage manufacturing factory on Monday.  The milestone also marked 21 years of the production of Polo ...

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Opel/Vauxhall to join PSA Group

Detroit and Paris – General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM) and PSA Group (Paris:UG) today announced an agreement under which GM’s Opel/Vauxhall subsidiary and GM Financial’s European operations will join the PSA Group in a transaction valuing these activities at €1.3 Bn and €0.9 Bn, respectively. With the addition of Opel/Vauxhall, which ...

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Opel/Vauxhall sale : Decision day is here for General Motors

Decision day is really here for General Motors as the U.S. carmaker is set to make a formal pronouncement on the deal to sell off its loss-making Vauxhall and Opel operations to PSA Group, the French company that owns Peugeot and Citroen. A statement obtained from GM’s corporate website said ...

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Proforce acquires steel company, moves to produce own glass through JV arrangement

Proforce (Defence) Limited, Nigeria’s leading total defence solution provider specialising in the manufacture of armoured vehicles, body armoured and other defence mobility products, said it has acquired a steel plant in the Sango area of Ogun State for the production of its steel just as arrangement had been concluded to ...

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Chandrasekaran appointed new chairman for Jaguar Land Rover Automotive

The chairman of Tata Sons who is also the CEO/Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Natarajan Chandrasekaran, has been appointed Director and Chairman of the Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc board, according to a statement issued on Friday. The new JLR Chairman is also a Director on the board ...

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Ford, Vodafone partnership brings 4G LTE connectivity to vehicles in Europe

  Ford said it has partnered with Vodafone to bring 4G LTE connectivity to vehicles in Europe via the new FordPass Connect built-in modem and WiFi hotspot capability. Incorporating an external aerial, the Wi-Fi hotspot enables up to 10 devices to connect to the network at once. This, according to ...

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Mitsubishi recalls 7,449 Pajeros in SA over Takata airbags

Mitsubishi Motors SA (MMSA) said on Friday that it has issued a preventive recall on 7,449 Pajeros in the South African market for safety inspections and replacement of driver airbags. The recall is part of a global campaign over faulty Takata airbags as the carmaker is one of several vehicle ...

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Magna rolls out first BMW 5 Series from Austria assembly

Canadian automotive giant, Magna International, which is also the world’s largest contract manufacturer of vehicles,  Thursday, rolled out the first unit of the BMW 5 Series produced from its  manufacturing assembly plant in Graz, Austria, according to Automotive News Canada, which also quoted Magna CEO Don Walker , as saying ...

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