EXECUTIVE MOTORING 
Due to a general slowdown in demand, Pirelli has cut its investment plan and full-year sales target. After the company reported first quarter profit higher than expectations, it now declared that slow demand has forced it to make some changes in the sales target and investment plan.
To celebrate its over one million fan base on Facebook, Tata, maker of Nano vehicles, announced the launch of India’s first ‘social road trip’, called Nano Drive with MTV. By this move, the company precisely plans to create a unique driving experience and will leverage the online medium to treat travel enthusiasts with a 20-day, over-2,000 km, exciting drive.
There are very strong indications that 80 percent of railway accidents occur at level crossing according to latest shocking revelations from the Nigerian Railway Corporation. Worried by this ugly trend, the Corporation in its continued effort to ensure safety at railway level crossings across the system has commenced awareness/enlightenment campaign at level crossings and motor parks with a view to reducing the spate of collision of vehicles with moving trains,
The previous generation of the Mercedes-Benz M-Class has just got an upgrade package from the German aftermarket specialists at Prior Design, who has given the luxurious Sport Utility Vehicle a mild refresh.
The General Motors sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) market has continued to show amazing growth rates during the first four months of the year, reaffirming the company’s commitment to stamping their footprints in the region.
As the economy increasingly tightens its grip on customers’ wallets, automobile manufacturers have to come up with new concepts in terms of vehicle categories. That is why the Mitsubishi ASX while adorning the looks of a typical Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) is actually in the words of its manufacturer, an Active Sporty Crossover. Yet, whatever one wishes to call it, the model is a pleasant surprise and an excellent and frugal long distance tourer.
These are Toyota’s Deare Qin concepts, in hatch and booted format that attracted global attention at the just-concluded Auto China in Beijing. Snippets emerging from the brain behind it revealed that these Deare Qin concepts will morph into a new global model, slated to hit the major markets as early as next year.
David & Stone YU-International, a local company with global spread, has reiterated its commitment in becoming a dominant player in the Nigerian armoured vehicle market with a very firm promise to alter the equation and ethos of operations in order to give value to corporate fleet and institutional end users.
Today, some lucky car owners drive safer cars on safer roads as well as bad roads. While in most countries, decades of advertisements and public information campaigns have made most motorists safer drivers, the situation is not the same here, in Nigeria.
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