In a world where we are encouraged to up-size our ‘fast-food’ meals, adopt smartphones with tablet-rivalling screens and consume a multitude of media on cinema-sized televisions – the underlying trend seems to be; ‘bigger is better’. In this spirit the new Yaris has also grown in stature and is poised to offer even more than…
FEMI OWOEYE South Africans love bakkies. As revealed by Gumtree South Africa recently, top selling passenger vehicle in 2017 was the evergreen Toyota Hilux, which topped even the massively popular VW Polo Vivo and Toyota Corolla. But, according to Gumtree, the Ford Ranger wasn’t far behind the Hilux and even managed to outsell it in five months of…
Back in 1954, Suzuki Motor Co, Limited was formed and Michio Suzuki designed and developed his first Automobile together with Son in law Shunzo who headed up the young engineering team, many of whom were in their twenties. Using Suzuki’s ‘Yaramaika’ principal (translated as ‘Let’s do it’) and his determination to drive forward, Shunzo quickly…
One of the most fascinating aspects of auto manufacturing is putting paints on. For accuracy, auto makers have over the years engage robots to do the job. Even at that, lots of painstaking activities go into this aspect of auto making, as you would read from this report on SEAT… [dropcap]A[/dropcap]ccording to Jordi Font from…
