It was a big start to the year for Toyota as its locally designed and built Hilux racing bakkies secured first and second place at Dakar 2025. Yazeed Al Rajhi and Timo Gottschalk – team Overdrive ...

Around 8,636 kilometers in total, the first motorway connection begins in Cairo, Egypt along the North African coast before ...

Motorsport Media reports that 55% of the car entries in Dakar 2025 were designed, built and developed in South Africa. Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor ...

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It was Stuart’s sixth Dakar and his first time in a car as a navigator for William Battershill from Zimbabwe, formerly from South Africa. After last year’s event, Stuart vowed ‘never again ...

Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) recently hosted its annual State of the Motor Industry (SOMI) event, providing valuable ...

Occupying the first few weeks of January each year, the Dakar rally raid has no other motorsport events rival. That gives it terrific branding power. Despite South Africa’s Henk Lategan leading ...

Nineteen-year-old Saood Variawa of South Africa became the youngest top-class driver to win a stage in the Dakar Rally ...

South Africa's Henk Lategan (Toyota) consolidated his lead atop the driver standings of the Dakar Rally by winning the eighth stage on Monday. The 30-year-old, in his fourth Dakar outing ...

Yazeed Al Rajhi became the first Saudi driver to win the Dakar Rally in the ultimate class, holding off South African Henk Lategan, who finished second in the car category.

Over half of all the cars (55 percent) that featured at this year’s Dakar Rally were made in South Africa by South Africans, including the two Toyota Hilux bakkies that clinched the first and ...