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May 8, 2020 No Responses

KIA Boosts SANZAF’s Food Relief With Six Vehicles

KIA Motors South Africa, a subsidiary of Motus Corporation, has boosted the efforts of the South African National Zakah Fund (SANZAF) with the donation of three KIA K2700 light commercial vehicles and three KIA Picanto STARTs . The donation is to...

May 7, 2020 No Responses

Jaguar Deploys 362 Cars For Emergency Service Workers

Jaguar Land Rover has deployed more than 362 vehicles globally for the emergency service workers as part of measures to curtail coronavirus crisis.The British automaker claims that it has provided the vehicles to agencies like NH...

May 6, 2020 No Responses

Volkswagen To Begin Sales Of New All-Electric Hatchback November 17

Volkswagen is to start selling the launch edition of its ID.3 vehicle next month to customers who placed pre-orders of the all-electric hatchback. According to the auto firm, Customers who made reservations for the launch edition, known as ID.3 1st,...

May 5, 2020 No Responses

Nissan To Focus On US, Japan, China

Nissan Motor Co Ltd will pull back from Europe and elsewhere to focus on the United States, China and Japan under a plan that represents a new strategic direction for the embattled carmaker. According to Reuters, the “operational performance plan&#...

May 2, 2020 No Responses

Nissan To Restart Output At UK’s Biggest Car Factory In June

Nissan will restart phased production in early June at its northern English Sunderland factory, Britain’s biggest car plant, as the sector tries to resume operations amid the coronavirus outbreak. Output at the site, which made just under 350,000 vehicle...

April 30, 2020 No Responses

Volvo Cars To Cut 1,300 Jobs

Volvo Cars said Wednesday it was cutting up to 1,300 white-collar jobs in Sweden in a restructuring accelerated by the impact of the new coronavirus. The company said the notices were part of an “ongoing realignment of the company’s operations,&#82...

April 29, 2020 No Responses

Mitsubishi Motors Seeks $2.8b Loans

Mitsubishi Motors has requested 300 billion yen ($2.8 billion) in financing from domestic and foreign lenders as the coronavirus pandemic clouds the outlook for the auto industry This total includes 200 billion yen from Japanese private- and public-sector fina...

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

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 17, 2020 No Responses

Hyundai Restarts Car Plants In Russia, Czech Republic

Hyundai Motor has resumed operations at Eurasian plants shut down for weeks as a precaution against the spread of the novel coronavirus. The South Korean automaker restarted its Russian assembly plant in St. Petersburg followed by reboot of the factory.....