Category: Motoring

By merging both real and virtual worlds through a highly connected-car experience, Invisible-to-Visible, or I2V, is Nissan’s vision of more integration of vehicles and the surroundings. Using information and imagery from sensors outside and inside the vehicle merged with data from the cloud, the augmented-reality system is claimed to track a vehicle’s immediate surroundings, showing […]

Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said Wednesday that they aim to sell 7.6 million vehicles this year by reviving sales in major markets, such as the United States and China. This year, Hyundai and Kia came up with a combined annual sales target that appears to be conservative as they are […]

If you’re prone to losing car keys, the latest-generation Hyundai Santa Fe just going on sale in China is for you. It offers buyers the option of using a fingerprint detector that can open the vehicle and turn on its engine, rendering car keys as necessary as a landline. Touch one of the SUV’s biometric sensors and […]

Nissan Motor Co plans to cut vehicle production in China by 30 000 units in the coming months, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters, as global automakers grapple with falling demand in the world’s biggest car market. After Ford Motor Co and Hyundai Motor Co, Nissan becomes the latest automaker to cut production […]

This group of friends has inspired people on social media, while others say they need to change friends. A heartwarming video of a group of friends showing their friend his new car has been circulating on social video. In the video that has been viewed more than 500 000 times, the friend breaks down in […]

People using the online hail-a-cab service Taxify have been warned to be on high alert when using the service. Passengers have also been urged to keep their belongings close and to ensure drivers are going in the direction of their destination. The warning comes after a Newlands woman said her Taxify driver allegedly locked the […]

Land Rover has released a picture of a camouflaged prototype that is quite obviously the all-new Defender, with ‘strict instructions’ not to unwrap until 2019. That’s as much as is being said for now, but it is the first ‘official’ confirmation that the all-new mud-plugger will be revealed to the world fairly soon. This also […]

The holiday season is upon us and for many that means packing the car and taking a road trip to some far-flung destination. But it’s a war zone out there and we want you to arrive alive, so without further ado, here are some handy road trip tips that we’ve collected over the years. Make […]

Elon Musk, who left South Africa when he graduated from high school in 1989, plans to open Tesla’s first store in this country in 2019. Tesla is a US electric automative trailblazer, praised for the distance its vehicles can travel on an electrical charge. In reply to a Tesla tweet about new store openings in the […]

Ford said it had started negotiations with German worker representatives about potential job cuts at its Saarlouis plant as the carmaker considers discontinuing production of its Ford C-Max model. “We can confirm that we are entering into formal negotiations with our Works Council with the objective of ending production of C-Max/Grand C-Max at Saarlouis,” Ford […]