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Volkswagen says it has started production of its new T-Roc Cabriolet at the Osnabrück plant in Germany. The Wolfsburg-based firm says the facilities at the plant – where the Porsche Cayman is also built – were “extensively optimised” for the production of the VW brand's ...

Recently we discovered that the latest generation of the Ford Focus may not be coming to South Africa due to dwindling sales leaving just the Figo and Fiesta as the South African arm’s current hatchback offerings alongside the EcoSport, Kuga and Everest SUVs. The same cannot be said for Europe. ...

Euro NCAP has released the results of its latest batch of safety ratings, test-crashing three SA-bound models: the new Porsche Taycan and Renault Captur and facelifted Audi Q7. Additionally, the new Ford Kuga was also put to the test. The three SUVs fared quite well with all three securing a five-star ...

The monthly Naamsa stats generally make for rather interesting reading. But, naturally, we tend to focus on the best-performing vehicles in terms of sales. Indeed, we’ve already reported the 10 best-selling passenger vehicles of November 2019, as well as listed the 10 best-selling bakkies in our ...

Mercedes-Benz has reportedly pulled out of the 2020 New York International Auto Show, which takes place in April next year. According to Automotive News, the Stuttgart-based firm will not attend the event in New York. A Mercedes-Benz spokesperson told the publication it would instead focus on launching ...

According to Naamsa, South Africa's November 2019 new vehicle sales came in at 44 738 units, representing a fall of 5,8 percent, year on year. Here’s what happened in the eleventh month of 2019 in the passenger vehicle segment... Take note that some brands – including Mercedes-Benz, ...

The sales figures for November 2019 are in … and 694 units separate the top two vehicles on our list of South Africa’s best-selling bakkies. According to Naamsa, November’s new vehicle industry sales came in at 44 738 units, representing a fall of 5,8 percent compared with the corresponding ...

 Soon to be standard on all AMG models is the Affalterbach brand’s new “Emotion Start” technology, a start-up sequence that adds an extra growl to the exhaust note to accentuate the car’s presence. According to Car and Driver, to activate this, you’ll have to pull ...

Download the full document here. The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa) said the overall new vehicle market declined further in November 2019. Domestic sales figures, particularly in commercial vehicle sales, had been “disappointing”. However, passenger ...