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/ 2 September 2008
BMW is pretty clear about the customers it is hoping to tempt with its extraordinarily sleek and boldly nose-thumbing new 4×4, the X6.
The gloom surrounding the motor industry deepened on Friday when General Motors announced a ,5-billion loss and BMW issued a profits warning.
I have never driven a Mini and it wasn’t until the recent Mini Clubman launch that I realised on what I had been missing out, writes Sukasha Singh.
Despite his misgivings about run-flat technology, Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya is not giving up on BMW just yet.
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/ 19 September 2007
Volkswagen South Africa is ”on the brink of disaster” because of the motor-industry components strike, MD David Powels said on Wednesday. The six-day-old work stoppage has so far cost the company a production loss of 500 cars per day. Volkswagen’s Uitenhage plant has been brought to a standstill.
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/ 10 September 2007
More than 50 000 South African vehicle-component workers are set to go on indefinite strike on Wednesday after a breakdown in wage talks, the main metalworkers’ union said on Monday. Mziwakhe Hlangani, spokesperson for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, said in a statement the strike would affect automotive-component suppliers.
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/ 7 September 2007
During the question-and-answer session at the launch of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class in Mpumalanga, a journo asked how he was supposed to fit all the info about the new model into a 750-word story. We all laughed and agreed that that was a challenge: trying to summarise how much the C-Class had changed and what it had to offer.