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After top selling car brand here you go with South Africa’s most popular luxurious and posh car brand “BMW”. The result is based on the total number of vehicle registration round the year. Since past three years the brand is leading the market with its luxury and now its the fourth successive year for BMW.According to a report from NAAMSA, total 27,671 BMW units were registered in 2013, due to which there was a 0.5%  growth compared to 2012 when it was 27,539 units. This success of the BMW Group includes the MINI brand...

Finally the top selling car brand for 2013 is here and its “Toyota”.In 2013, this Japanese carmaker sold 126 749 Toyota Lexus and Hino vehicles to the customers round South Africa. This clearly represents a total of 19.5% of the overall marketsThe Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at the Toyota Calvyn Hamman, SA said that “We are extremely happy with this success of Toyota.” Initially in 1961 when we had established the brand in South Africa, we were completely focusing on the developing a good and strong...

In December 2013, the new vehicle sales increased just at a minor rate of 0.2% to 46,501 units compared to earlier this year. Export sales increased 9.3% year to year in December to 21,613 units. NUMSA considered this current slower sales due to poor sales last year which in turn affected the economy with the inflation in the price of the new vehicles.  The report states that, from past few years the domestic sales volume have been going to the grounds and increased just by 3.2%  round the year in 2013. NUMSA expected the sales to...

  Finally Merc unveiled it secret of constructing whole new GLA 45 AMG. This compact SUV will be the most powerful series production ever in the world with four-cylinder engine. Merc has confirmed that the SUV will be quite economical inspite of the fact that it will deliver the power of 265kW and 450Nm of torque. Merc also claims the fuel consumption of 7.5 litres/100km in  2.0 liter engine and the CO2 emission of 175g/km.  However when you are not much concerned about the fuel consumption than the car will accelerate...

The new Chev’s to be rolled out this year will be even more faster on the information route beyond our imaginations. According to a statement from GM on Sunday, it would set-up and include the fourth generation (4G) internet connection in few models. This will help the motorist to stay always updated and connected with the day to day growing number of automobile apps. Doing partnership with AT&T, Chevrolet will allow the the 4G connections with Long  Term Evolution (LTE). Alan Batey, the senior vice president of Global...

   Nissan is all set to release its Sports Sedan concept at the forthcoming Detroit Auto Show. The proposed image of the car has already been released.A Look at the Design Features:Except the above image no other detailed information is not yet available from the firm. But one thing is confirmed that the sedan will feature an all new dynamic design that strengthens the Nissan’s design principles and also states that the future production models will have a more advance and amazing looks. It can be predicted from the...

The German Automaker “Audi” has recently registered for a number of trademarks which clearly states that many future models can be expected from Audi.  The company said in a report that they will purely focus on the compact SUVs and will increase their line up in coming few years.    One British magazine states that the “SQ2” can be an anticipated name of the upcoming high performance version of compact SUV and can also be designated as “Q2”. Than comes hotty “SQ4” which can...

Ford - an American Automaker is planning for constructing a prototype hybrid car. It will be a joint collaboration of Ford, California based SunPower Corp. and the Georgia Institute of Technology.The concept will glow as a completely new concept in electric transportation and renewable energy - said Mike Tinskey, director at Ford for vehicle electrification and infrastructure. It is also anticipated to boost up the sales of the electric and hybrid vehicles.The car will basically include the usage of solar energy from the roof-top charger...

According to an expert financial analyst, General Motors will surely take a step to buy Tesla this year. This predictions was made by Yra Harris of Praxis at an interview with CNBC with following words: “If the deal will be done at right price than it would be like “deal in heaven”Upon this many will have the question that why GM would be interested in buying Tesla, an electric carmaker which is quite favourite in the automotive world. Previously its Model S had received a good response compared to the GM’s own EV-the...