WeBuyCars on the road to expansion
- Industry News
- 20 November 2024
Dealer industry news from around Southern Africa
As South Africa battles the third wave of COVID-19 infections, companies need to recommit to the policies put in place to prevent the spread of the virus within their organisations.
It might not be Formula One, but a round of the electric Formula E World Championship is scheduled to take place in South Africa and will be held in Cape Town on 26 February next year.
The arrival of the first electric N-series truck on local shores marks the start of JAC Motors South Africa's local electric vehicle programme.
Nissan South Africa has renewed its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Volkswagen has introduced a comprehensive service and maintenance programme called EasyDrive Vehicle Plans.
Within a week after opening an office in Cape Town, the vehicle armouring solutions firm, SVI Engineering, delivered its first locally manufactured and fitted armoured bakkie.
The improvement in year-on-year new vehicle sales in June this year and for the first half of 2021 “is genuinely great news”, according to the National Automobile Dealers’ Association (NADA).
Mercedes-Benz Cars has invested a further R3 billion in its manufacturing facility in East London for the production of the new generation C-Class.
The recovery in the new vehicle market is gaining momentum, says Naamsa.
A new company that focuses on car subscriptions in South Africa and Mexico claims it has disproved the concept that people aspire to own their own vehicle.
Continued new vehicle stock shortages and resulting rising prices are hampering the recovery of the market, according to JSE-listed automotive group, Motus.
The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement is a unique opportunity for the automotive sector in Africa, says Alec Erwin, an African Association of Automotive Manufacturers (AAAM) policy expert and former South African deputy minister of finance and minister of trade and industry and public enterprises.
The definition of component parts in the Competition Commission’s Automotive Aftermarket Guidelines is one of the grey issues that is currently still the subject of debate, according to the Tyre Equipment Parts Association (TEPA).
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