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- Industry News
- 11 February 2025
Dealer industry news from around Southern Africa
The first Toyota Land Cruiser 300 received a level B6 armour from SVI Engineering in South Africa. This is the highest grade of civilian protection allowed without a special permit in the country.
Isuzu Motors South Africa (IMSAf) has donated an engine to the University of Johannesburg (UJ).
The BMW Group South Africa sponsored the construction of a new Welcome Centre at the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Ga-Rankuwa, north-west of Pretoria, Gauteng.
Audi South Africa announced the appointment of Mulalo Makungo (Ratshikhopha) as its new National Sales Operations Manager.
Production at Toyota’s plant at Prospecton in Durban is slowly but surely getting back to normality.
The Toyota Corolla Cross was voted the South African Car of the Year by the South African Guild of Mobility Journalists (SAGMJ).
Haval Motors South Africa has appointed Conrad Groenewald to the newly created position of Chief Operations Officer. The appointment is effective from 1 July 2022.
Heavy rains and floods that occurred in KwaZulu-Natal in mid-April had a severely negative impact on the South African logistics sector.
The Motus Group has acquired Sandown Motor Holdings (SMH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz South Africa’s (MBSA), retail operations.
Pent-up demand is helping to keep South Africa's new vehicle market afloat in 2022, says the National Automobile Dealers’ Association (NADA).
New vehicle sales in May 2022 reflected the knock-on effects of the disruptions caused by the severe floods in KwaZulu-Natal and a myriad of headwinds increasingly impacting domestic economic growth, including the disposable income of consumers, says automotive business council, naamsa.
While every business, irrespective of size, is vulnerable to payment fraud, worrying gaps in South African motor dealerships’ payment systems have put the entire sector at risk, claims Know Your Payee (KYP) platform provider, eftsure Africa.
The INEOS Group, created by Sir Jim Ratcliffe, will soon build three models at its Hambach manufacturing facility in Germany.
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