ADEJUWON OSUNNUYI Chinese automotive products used to be viewed with skepticism in Nigeria. But those days are gone. From sedans to pickups, Sport Utility vehicles, minibusses and trucks, the Chinese vehicles have shown a strong presence and even now dominate certain segments of the nation’s market. For instance, commercial buses like Yutong Jinbei, Foton, Joylong…
A brace of ambitious new developments in the electric vehicle space and a clutch of smart safety solutions headline this year’s nominations for 2022 What Car? Innovation Award. Among those vying for the coveted title this year is BMW’s impressive Head-Up Display for its new iX range, Hyundai’s clever Blindspot View Monitor, and a step-change…
The word ‘Geely’ can be translated from Mandarin to mean ‘auspicious’ or ‘lucky’…no doubt the perfect moniker for the company, founded as recently as 1986 and currently taking the global auto scene by storm. Now, how exactly has Geely managed to grow consistently and exponentially in such little time? In 2003, Geely’s total production stood…
ROTIMI ASHER Ordinarily, African Continental Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA), an ambitious trade pact to form the world’s largest free trade area by connecting almost 1.3 billion people across 54 African countries, should be a solution to one of the major problems confronting Nigeria’s auto industry. But how can the country benefit from this sort of…
