Category: Motoring

London – Fernando Alonso is fit and ‘fully operational’ following jaw surgery and will be fine for Formula One’s pre-season testing in Bahrain, his Alpine team boss said on Tuesday. Alonso fractured his jaw in a collision with a car while cyclin on a road near his home in Switzerland last month. “Fernando is doing […]

Mercedes Formula One team boss and co-owner Toto Wolff has revealed he tested positive for Covid-19 and had to isolate in Austria this month but is now out of quarantine. The 49-year-old said in an interview at Sunday’s Kitzbuehel Alpine skiing World Cup downhill that he had no symptoms. “We had planned to be here […]

Ferrari Chief Executive Officer Louis Camilleri has retired citing personal reasons after being in the role for nearly two and a half years and Chairman John Elkman is set to lead the company on an interim basis, said the supercar maker. Camilleri’s decision to step down came after the executive suffered health problems, which made […]

PSA is ending the production of Peugeot and Citroen small city cars, withdrawing from an increasingly unprofitable market as the company starts a strategic review of its planned merger with Fiat Chrysler. While PSA has already agreed to sell its stake in its Czech joint venture with Toyota where the Peugeot 108 and Citroen C1 […]

Team boss Toto Wolf says he will stay with Mercedes next year – but that the role he will play has not been decided. Wolff had led the team to become the most successful in F1 history – winning both drivers’ and constructors’ titles for six successive seasons – but his contract runs out this […]

Johannesburg – While South African new vehicle market saw a modest improvement of 3.4%, with last month’s total sales figure of 33 515 units representing a 26.3% decline over August 2019. Passenger cars once again took the biggest plunge, falling by 32.6% to 19 545 units largely thanks to almost zero demand from the rental car industry, […]

India’s Tata Motors Ltd will significantly reduce its group automotive debt of 480 billion rupees ($6.4 billion or roughly R107.38 billion) over the next three years, the company’s chairman said during its annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. Tata Motors is “developing this business substantially” and has set targets to generate free cash flow, said Natarajan […]

Johannesburg – The findings of the AA’s latest Entry-level Vehicle Safety (ELVS) Report are misleading, that is according to some car companies named in the study. The AA sampled 27 entry-level models priced under R200, 000 from 16 different manufacturers and categorised them on their safety ratings. The report was desktop research that rated the […]

Mazda was only meant to reveal its new turbocharged Mazda3 on Wednesday, July 8, but the company’s Mexican division jumped the gun and posted it on their website and a video was uploaded on their YouTube channel on the weekend. The video shows that the turbocharged Mazda 3 will be fitted with a 2.5-litre turbo-petrol […]

Johannesburg – Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) is said to be spending over R10m to assist the local taxi industry in the fight against the spread of Covid-19. The help comes in the form of over 65,000 litres of sanitiser, 2,000 handwash dispensers and Covid-19-related marketing initiatives. “Toyota had already committed to these taxi support […]