China Calls Out Nike On Consumer Rights
US sporting-goods giant Nike has become the latest foreign brand to receive a high-profile rebuke from an influential Chinese consumer-affairs programme that has previously forced Apple and...
Tag: Automobiles & Multi Utility Vehicles
Audi Sites Raided In Emissions Probe
German prosecutors have raided Audi sites as part of an investigation into the manipulation of US emissions tests. Dozens of officers searched the Audi factory in Ingolstadt in Bavaria, as well as...
German Prosecutors Searching Audi Offices In Germany
German prosecutors searched Audi's two biggest plants and several other sites on Wednesday in connection with an emissions cheating scandal, adding to pressure on Volkswagen's (VOWG_p. DE) luxury...
VW Diesel Compensation Is On Track In US But Not Elsewhere
It has been a year and a half since the diesel emissions scandal at the German carmaker Volkswagen first came to light. Since then, the company has agreed to pay substantial compensation to people in...
1964 Formula One Champion Surtees Dead At 83
John Surtees, a Formula One great who won the 1964 championship with Ferrari and remains the only man to win world titles on two wheels and four, died on Friday at the age of 83, his family said in a...
Aleppo Car Lover Aims To Revive His ‘wounded’ Classics
Car enthusiast Mohammed Mohiedin Anis gazes sadly at a 1955 Buick Super, one of his collection of vintage cars "wounded" in battles that ravaged the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Heavy bombardment...
UFP Founder Sues Police Commander, Four Others For Seizing His Cars
The founder and leader of United Front Party (UFP), Nana Agyenim Boateng, has filed a suit against the Suame Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent C. O. Lomotey, and four others for...
Autos Bosses Focus On Technology Rather Than PSA-Opel
The auto industry is facing seismic changes with the rise of electric vehicles, automated driving and car sharing set to eclipse even big mergers such as PSA's purchase of Opel, executives at the...
Peugeot Poised To Buy GM’s Opel, Creating European Car Giant
France's PSA Group (PEUP. PA) is set to announce a deal to buy Opel from General Motors (GM.N) on Monday after striking an agreement with the U.S. carmaker and winning the blessing of its board for...
Americans Buy More Trucks, SUVs In February
Americans' strong appetite for light trucks and sport utility vehicles helped drive sales higher in February at some automakers, while others struggled with continued weakening demand for sedans and...
Donald Trump’s Congress Speech
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP'S ADDRESS TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS Remarks as prepared for delivery TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the...
Lewis Hamilton Fastest For Mercedes On First Pre-Season Testing Day
Mercedes and Ferrari had impressive starts to pre-season testing as Red Bull and McLaren hit trouble. Lewis Hamilton was fastest as Mercedes completed 152 laps with both their drivers at Circuit de...
Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen Unveil New Car
Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen put the first miles on their new 2017 Formula 1 car after a low-key launch on Friday. Vettel and Raikkonen shared driving to cover the maximum...
VW Eyes Stable 2017 Earnings After Underlying Profit Hits Record
VW expects to post an underlying operating margin of between 6 and 7 percent this year Volkswagen (VOWG_p. DE) forecast broadly stable earnings this year after record sales of luxury Audi and Porsche...
Why Prez Akufo-Addo Must Buy Brand New Cars
As I was going about my usual daily activities of wandering around looking for someone’s issue to poke my nose into, I heard of some stories from Opanyin Kwaku Dompe’s radio while I was passing...
Mallya Dreams Big As Force India Eye Top Three Finish
Vijay Mallya has promised Force India will "dream big" as they look to break into the top three of Formula One this season. The flamboyant businessman, now based in Britain, remains the co-owner of...
Samuel Abu Jinapor Living Up To Expectation
He is a young intrepid legal practitioner whose appointment to the position of a Deputy Chief of Staff, initially, sparked a storm of debate on social media, by some people within the NPP. That...
CID Releases Kofi Adams’ Seized Vehicles
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID), of the Ghana Police Service, has released the five vehicles it confiscated from National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC),...
What President Akufo-Addo Can Learn From Pope Francis
By: Nicholas Issaka Gbana Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, when he was named the 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church which has a global membership of over 1.2 billion....
Ghana Can Become An Auto Hub
The Country Director of Stallion Group, Mr Mahesh Mahtani, says Ghana has the potential to become West Africa’s auto manufacturing hub. He, therefore, urged the government to put in incentives that...