Toyota GR took ultra-hot GR Corolla to the garage and figure out how to add power, reduce weight and enhance handling keeping an eye on building a car that’s ready to jump from the street to the track. after tweaking, testing and re-testing, they come away with a MORIZO
Morizo edition exclusive specs like close gear ratio transmission, shorter differential gears, forged wheels, stiffened chassis, front brake ducts, mono-tube shock absorbers and Ultrasuede trimmed seating and cabin features
Compact and lightweight, the DOHC 12-valve engine features a single-scroll ball-bearing turbo that’s matched to a 6-speed intelligent manual transmission with rev-matching engineered to accommodate high torque levels.
The front suspension is a MacPherson-type strut design that offers both light weight and firm handling, maximizing the tires’ grip potential. Made up of circuit-tuned coil springs, monotube shock absorbers and stabilizer bars.
Weight declines from 3292 pounds in the Circuit Edition to 3186 pounds in the Morizo, with Toyota ditching the rear seats and associated hardware including the door speakers, window regulators, and rear wiper blade and motor. There are also redesigned 18-inch forged wheels
Roof is made of a forged carbon sheet molding compound. This lightweight, highly rigid material keeps off the ounces that steel roof would bring and helps lower the car’s center of gravity.
The purpose-built MORIZO Edition adds even more heat to Toyota’s GR lineup, which includes the performance ready GR Corolla Core Grade, launch-year-only Circuit Edition, as well as GR Supra and GR86. - Toyota News Room.
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President William Ruto dropped over 3,000 kilometres of roads that former President Uhuru Kenyatta planned to build during the current financial year, indicating a new course for the new administration away from its predecessor’s priorities. Nation Media
This comes against the backdrop of a Sh47.3 billion budget cut on the government’s infrastructural projects during the financial year to June 2023, 99 per cent of which affects the construction of roads.
The government, in the mini-budget published in January, proposes to drop the construction of at least 1,089km of roads across diff parts of the country, while 2,304km that had been lined up for rehabilitation and maintenance in the financial year to June, will also be shelved.
Super Metro Sacco, one of Nairobi’s leading public transport operators, has announced the introduction of its first electric bus as part of its fleet.
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Supplied by Kenyan electric mobility startup BasiGo, the 25-seater K6 Electric bus starts operating today and will ply the CBD to Kikuyu and CBD to Kitengela routes.
“Kenya has a vibrant public transport system that provides a vital service to millions of people each day. Today, we are proud to hand over this transformative bus to Super Metro, one of Nairobi’s leading public transport operators. Through this partnership, BasiGo
Prices of used vehicles such as Subaru Impreza, Toyota Vitz and Volkswagen Golf have increased by hundreds of thousands of shillings on scarcity and weakening of the local currency. - Business Daily
The rally has cut sales for roadside car dealers and priced out a large section of professionals and small business owners who are major customers of second-hand cars.
Market dynamics have also increased interest in much older cars, slowing down their depreciation as price-sensitive buyers seek models within their budget.
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) plans to tap private firms to inspect vehicles if Parliament adopts a proposed law, allowing the agency to deal with a backlog.
The chairman Aden Noor Ali said at a public participation forum for the NTSA 2022 draft regulations that, if approved, it would allow the State to outsource private firms to inspect vehicles, reducing the time taken and helping clear inspection backlogs.
Currently, NTSA cannot contract private firms, leaving the State agency stretched and struggling to complete vehicle inspections on time.
Kenyan new vehicle dealers doubled their exports to the regional market last year, underlining their capacity to supply the neighbouring countries.
Data from the Kenya Motor Vehicle Industry Association (KMI) shows that the companies led by Isuzu East Africa and Scania East Africa sold a total of 387 units to the external markets in the year ended December.
This was up from 193 units the year before. Most of the exports went to Tanzania (which bought 241 units) and Uganda (146 units) in the review period.
Vivo Energy Kenya, the biggest oil marketer in the country, will acquire a controlling stake in South Africa’s Engen under an Africa-wide multi-billion-shilling deal that will deepen its dominance of the local market.
This is part of a global deal where Vivo Energy Group Plc has agreed to buy the 74 percent shareholding stake that Malaysian state energy company, Petronas holds in Engen.
The deal whose value and completion timelines remain undisclosed will offer Vivo Energy Kenya an opportunity to grow its market share in Kenya, ramp up revenues and widen the gap against rivals TotalEnergies and Rubis.