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April 27, 2020 No Responses

Toyota Predicts Huge Sales For New Yaris SUV Cross

Despite several challenges confronting automobile sales and marketing due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Toyota Motor Corporation has predicted huge sales for the new Toyota Yaris Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) Cross. Indeed, the kind of digital online launch that welcomed the new...

April 27, 2020 No Responses

Auto Firms Head For Zero Sales In April

Automobile firms in most parts of the world including Nigeria are heading for zero sales as the Month of April, 2020 drives to an end. Toyota South Africa Senior Vice President incharge of sales and marketing, Leon Theron had last...

April 25, 2020 No Responses

Volkswagen Restarts Production In Germany

About Five weeks of shutdown due to the coronavirus crisis, Germany’s largest car manufacturer Volkswagen has restarted production in two of its plants. Volkswagen’s vehicle plant in Zwickau, Saxony would “cautiously resume” production ...

April 25, 2020 No Responses

Mitsubishi Motors Predicts Losses, Drop In Sales

Japanese automaker, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation on Friday predicted 26 billion yen ($240 million) in losses for the fiscal year through next March, as sales plunge because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tokyo-based Mitsubishi, allied with Nissan Motor Company ...

April 24, 2020 No Responses

Toyota To Resume Production May 4

Toyota Motor announced on Thursday it will resume automobile production at all of its 14 plants in North America from May 4 after a one-and-a-half month suspension due to the novel coronavirus. “Beginning the week of May 4, Toyota intends...

April 24, 2020 No Responses

Nissan Resumes Production May 4

Nissan will restart production at its Barcelona factory from May 4 and it will begin piloting safety measures at its British plant with the return of around 50 staff this week, the Japanese carmaker said . “The management team in...

April 23, 2020 No Responses

Top Gear Names Kona Electric Best Small Family Car

Kona Electric has been acknowledged as the Best Small Family Car in the inaugural TopGear Electric Awards, after it completed a 1,600-kilometers road trip across 9 European countries. A statement explained that Hyundai Motor’s fully electric SUV was no...

April 23, 2020 No Responses

Toyota South African Projects 15-20% Drop In Production, Explains Zero Sales In April

The president and Chief Executive Officer of South African unit of Toyota, Andrew Kirby, on Wednesday projected between 15-20 per cent drop in production in 2020. Kirby told a virtual media briefing that Toyota South Africa, which produces between...

April 23, 2020 No Responses

JLR Introduces Plug-In Hybrid Technology To Range Rover Evoque, Discovery Sport

Jaguar Land Rover has introduced new plug-in hybrid technology to Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Sport. The company explained on Wednesday that the latest plug-in hybrid system can switch to an electric-only mode for shorter rides. Also, this...

April 21, 2020 No Responses

Auto Journalists Mourns Anumudu, Globe Motors Chairman

The Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) has received with shock, the news of the death of William Anumudu, Chairman/CEO of Globe Motors Holdings Limited, one of the biggest automobile franchise owners including Mercedes, Toyota, Hyundai and the Higer b...