When it was first launched 25 years ago, the Nissan X-TRAIL launched a brand-new category of motoring and set the benchmark for all the followed. The name said it all, fusing the concept of extreme sports and the outdoors and the first generation (T30: 2000 – 2007) deliberately set out to prove that a 4WD…
Coscharis Motors, Nigeria’s exclusive representative of the iconic BMW brand, is headlining this years’ BMW Club’s Autofest and the 10th Anniversary edition as the major sponsor in Lagos on the 17th and 23rd of December, 2023. According to Abiona Babarinde, the General Manager, Marketing and Corporate Communications, Coscharis Group, “Coscharis and BMW are really excited…
In the early days of the BBC’s Top Gear show, aired every Thursday evening on BBC 2, presenter Chris Goffey was a very influential voice in UK car culture. And on one such Thursday evening in 1986, he was among the first to drive the recently-launched diesel-powered Range Rover. It did not go well. On film, Goffey…
…Story as Told by His Orderly, Sergeant Michael Otuwu, the only survivor [dropcap]E[/dropcap]xactly 42 years ago, Nigeria’s military head of state, general Murtala Mohammed was assassinated in his official car, Mercedes-Benz 600, now preserved in a Lagos Museum. Eye-witness story about the traffic, motoring, last-minute error and security lapses surrounding the assassination was told by…
