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Ford Motor Company of SA
SANDTON, South Africa, 11 August 2015 – Pretoria resident Liane van Dyk has been announced as the winner of the 2015 Ranger Odyssey following 12 days of evaluation and competition while travelling 2 000km through the remote Damaraland and Kaokoland regions of Namibia. The announcement was made at the gala dinner for Ford’s Go Further event in Sandton tonight.
Sou die volgende beskrywing van luukse kenmerke van ‘n voertuig aan ‘n voornemende koper voorgehou word om die tipe voertuig te identifiseer, sou die raaiskoot waarskynlik na een of ander luukse Duitse-fabrikaat passasiersmotor verwys.
A gruff, off-beat sound usually accompanied by a whistling turbo charger can only mean one thing: five cylinders. With even numbers being the preferred stencil for engine manufacturing, the five-pot is just as quirky and potentially unbalanced as those little three-cylinders.
One of the most striking things about the motor industry is its diversity; not just in terms of products but the preferences of various regions. Every continent, nation, country, often even province is different from the next and what sells next door may not even feature on the newest local brochure.
Ek onthou nog hoe ek die eerste keer van die Ford Courier bakkie bewus geword het, op die dorp waar ek groot geword het. Dit was ‘n weergawe van die Mazda B-reeks bakkies wat met ‘n Ford kenteken en ander sierrooster die plek van die Cortina-gebaseerde bakkies in die Ford-stal moes volstaan.
In Suid-Afrika en Namibië is die mark vir een ton bakkies ‘n baie belangrike en hoogs kompeterende mark. Toyota se Hilux , waarvan die bakvorm nou al van 2005 kom, is nou al reeds ‘n hele aantal jare die top verkoper in hierdie mark…