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Euro NCAP has published the safety ratings of seven new vehicles in the latest round of crash tests. Interestingly, each of the seven scored the full five stars. The Audi E-tron, Volkswagen T-Cross, Lexus UX, Mazda3, Renault Clio, Toyota Corolla hatchback and Toyota RAV4 all achieved the maximum rating ...

A fresh report out of Europe suggests BMW Group CEO Harald Krüger's job is “hanging in the balance”. According to Automotive News Europe, some members of the German firm’s supervisory board have questioned whether the 53-year-old – who stepped into the role in 2015 – ...

Ford Motor Company will cut as many as 7 000 jobs worldwide as it continues its cost-cutting drive, according to The Associated Press. The 7 000 white-collar workers set to lose their jobs represent some ten percent of the Blue Oval brand’s salaried workforce, according to the report. Interestingly, ...

Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa says its success with the local manufacture and export of the Ranger “just proves what we are capable of”. The company said it believed the expansion of “already thriving export programmes” for locally built vehicles held “immense ...

The new Ford Ranger Raptor has finally arrived in South Africa. Of course, as the flagship of the Blue Oval brand’s bakkie line-up, the off-road performance vehicle isn’t exactly cheap. So, we thought it prudent to update our list of the country’s most expensive double-cab bakkies. ...

The Automobile Association has confirmed there will be some changes to fuel prices at the end of this month. Petrol will undergo a slight decrease, according to data released by the Central Energy Fund. As a result, the price of petrol will drop by seven cents a litre, while diesel will increase by ...

McLaren Automotive has reached a milestone as its 20 000th road car rolls off its Woking-based assembly line; eight years after the firm's first road car, the MP4-12C, left the brand's Production Centre. The model in question is from the British automaker’s Sports Series line-up, a right-hand ...

As high-performance EV sportscar company Rimac continues to impress with outrageous all-electric creations like the C Two hypercar (0-100 km/h in 1,97 seconds), it seems Hyundai Motor Company is keen on gaining valuable insight from this Croatian manufacturer. As such, the Korean brand has invested R1,2 ...

The head of the BMW M division says the firm will continue to offer rear-wheel-drive variants of its smaller M-badged vehicles. The comments come after Mercedes-AMG boss Tobias Moers earlier suggested the Stuttgart-based firm’s performance division was likely to switch all of its models to all-wheel ...