Car News

It’s amazing how a farm boy was able to achieve great success by becoming one of the founding fathers of the automobile manufacturing industry. After two failed attempts to enter into the automobile manufacturing business, Ford Motor Company was finally incorporated in 1903 by Henry Ford himself. Below is a story of …

Everyday cars are stolen across the country. According to statistics, a car is stolen every 5 minutes in Nigeria. This is an alarming observation. Several car thieves under police custody have confessed on how they have been able to get away successfully with stealing cars. Based on these confessions we …

Fraudulent fuelling stations engage in all manner of vices to extort money from unsuspecting motorists but the most popular and common practice is the tampering of fuel dispensing machines. To understand how fuel dispensing machines are tampered, it’s important to know how the machine works. During the process of transferring fuel from …

Lagosians living around Sangotedo, Awoyaya, Lakowe and beyond has been struggling with long slow traffics for some months as a result of heavy construction work going on along the Ajah-Epe expressway. This development is welcomed by some but not to all. We will look at both sides and see it’s …

In an effort to produce cars with less toxic emission, automakers and fuel companies are continually working on developing alternative fuels and vehicles that can run on them. The most popular alternative fuel today is the E85, a mix of 15 percent petrol (fossil based fuel) and up to 85 percent ethanol …

According to Wikipedia Cotonou is considered a “Market Town” enabling trade with the countries of the African interior, such as Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. In addition to the port, there is a free trade zone in the interior of the city for use by the landlocked Saharan states. However, the city is rife with corruption …

There are a number of times I have noticed a young child seated in a the front seat, on an adult’s lap, or not properly restrained in a child seat in rear seat of a vehicle. I often wonder if parents really know the dangers of not securing a child …

Have you ever tried to follow a route and wondered if there is a traffic jam ahead so you could either continue or change route? This challenge occurs all the time in a metropolis like Lagos. We’ve all been stuck in traffic at one time or another, and we all …

Since Hybrid vehicles were introduced into the international market in 1997, only a small number of these vehicles are actually used in Nigeria in contrast to it’s full mechanically driven counterparts. Before proceeding, we need to understand what a Hybrid vehicle is. A Hybrid vehicle is a type of vehicle …

You may think of having sex in a car as something that only teenagers do because they often don’t really have any other options, you are wrong. Whether you are spicing up your sex life with your partner or it’s simply a quickie, having sex in the car is always …