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We’ve been representing the retail motor industry for more than
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businesses, our unity is our strength.
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Centralised wage negotiations.
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and Industry-related Boards and committee structures.
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Various South African Bureau of Standards (
committees and working groups.
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The National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (
industry when compulsory specifications and standards are compromised.
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The Moto Health Care Fund, Industry Provident Funds
and the Sick, Accident and Maternity Pay Fund.
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Meetings hosted by reputable organisations recognised by government, big
business, consumers and relevant stakeholders like Business Unity SA (
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Professional industrial relations advice ensuring procedural
and substantive fairness when disciplining staff.
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Chairing of disciplinary hearings and
and Labour Court.
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Exceptional CPA support at the National Consumer Commission (
and the Motor Industry Ombudsman of South Africa (
).
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Facilitation of a business-to-business complaint where both parties are
RMI members, with a complaint resolution rate in excess of 95%.
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Training needs and representation via
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Industry-specific products like
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Industry labour relations seminars.
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Automobil magazine and weekly web letters.
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Commenting on industry topics in the media, and participating
in and hosting numerous conventions and shows.
www.automobil.co.za
April 2023
NEWS
NEWS
asslift Africa, the sole distributor of Mit-
subishi forklifts in South Africa has re-
ceived MerSETA accreditation as a skills
development provider. The accreditation allows
Masslift to provide internal and external training
programmes for Full Forklift Mechanic Qualification
and a range of skills programmes as an accredited
skills provider registered with QCTO and MerSETA.
Masslift’s commitment to providing high-quality
training and uplifting the workforce has driven the
company’s pursuit of accreditation. The nationwide
recognition of SETA-accredited training means that
the courses completed are reputable, thorough
and relevant. As a result, Masslift’s customers can
rest assured that their machines will be serviced
and maintained by a workforce well-equipped with
up-to-date industry-specific skills, cutting back
on time and productivity lost to error or lack of
knowledge.
In addition to benefiting Masslift’s customers,
the accreditation allows Masslift to access SETA
funds for staff training, benefit from tax rebates,
and maximise potential B-BBEE points. Further-
more, providing SETA-accredited training for em-
ployees strengthens Masslift’s credibility and rep-
utation in the industry and community.
With Masslift’s in-house resources and infra-
structure, such as recruitment, printing, material
development, facilitators, assessors, moderators,
ETQA (SETA liaisons), and a fully accredited
workplace, the company can provide competitive
training fees.
aguar Land Rover South Africa now offers
its clients the convenience and flexibility to
purchase new vehicles through a variety of
channels. Through a frictionless modern luxury
journey, clients now have the option to buy new
vehicles online, face-to-face at a retailer or a
combination of both.
Together with the selection of the latest ve-
hicles available in stock at their most convenient
retailer, clients can now also access a much wider
variety of immediately available and upcoming
Range Rover, Discovery, Defender and Jaguar ve-
hicles from any Jaguar Land Rover retailer in the
country. All stock is visible through new dedicat-
ed websites for the Jaguar and Land Rover brands
respectively.
These sites offer the ability to reserve vehi-
cles, apply for finance pre-approvals, request
trade-in value estimates, and complete purchase
transactions all at a time and place convenient to
them. This wider choice and flexibility still returns
to the client’s preferred retailer of choice to facil-
itate delivery of their new Jaguar or Land Rover.
It is also possible to view and order vehicles
set for future manufacturing dates. Upon ap-
proved reservation, Jaguar Land Rover will keep
clients updated with step-by-step information on
the build commencement, production progress,
shipping schedules, expected arrival in market,
and final delivery dates.
Total costs are broken down with full trans-
parency and easy to understand listings for base
vehicle prices, options and delivery fees. Any
payable CO2 taxes are built into base prices (with
average CO2 emissions figures visible separately),
and delivery fees are now standardised per vehi-
cle nameplate.
The new Jaguar and Land Rover e-com-
merce platforms will exist alongside the tradi-
tional brand websites in South Africa. While the
current Jaguar.co.za and Landrover.co.za sites
are the best places to explore various model
lines, features, technologies, vehicle configu-
rators and news, the new e-commerce sites
at buy. landrover.co.za and buy.jaguar.co.za
offer listings for every new vehicle in the mar-
ket together with those scheduled for future
production.
Masslift receives MerSETA accreditation
Jaguar Land Rover clients can now shop online
ohn DeLorean created a host of automotive
features that are still relevant today. Some
include overhead-cam engines, turn sig-
nals, concealed windshield wipers, and vertically
stacked headlights.
John Zachary DeLorean was indisputably a
brilliant engineer and a trailblazer. The car he’s
most famous for, the DMC-12, became a cultural
icon after featuring in the “Back to the Future”
films.
The DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) was of-
ficially founded in Detroit on October 24, 1975.
The plan was to build what DeLorean called an
ethical, safe, long-lasting and sustainable car with
the best of everything.
Giorgetto Giugiaro, the Italian designer and
founder of ItalDesign, based the DeLorean on a
1970 concept car he had drawn up for Porsche,
which was similarly wedge-shaped and featured
a stainless-steel body with gull-wing doors. It was
powered by a Peugeot-Renault-Volvo 2.85 litre
V6 engine with 130 horsepower.
During an interview, DeLorean alluded to
having more than 200 patents. He implemented
several daring changes that proved his genius.
DeLorean would eventually declare personal
bankruptcy in 1999 which was inevitable follow-
ing the crash of DeLorean Motor Company.
The latest announcement of the model
JZD comes from DNG Motors (DeLorean Next
Generation Motors) who have also announced
the DeLorean Alpha5, an upcoming bat-
tery-electric sports car produced by the DeLo-
rean Motor Company (not the same as DNG, and
not the original DMC who built the DMC DeLo-
rean in 1981.)
A new DeLorean after 41 years