BusinessDay 25 Oct 2017

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Wednesday 25 October 2017
ExecutiveMotoring
Kia offers year-end 10% sales discount
MIKE OCHONMA
As the end of 2018 market
year gradually draws
nearer with the ember
months around the corner,
Kia Motors Nigeria
has rolled out special offer tagged
‘Ember Surprise Promo’ to give customers
10% discount on select models;
Kia Rio 1.4-liter EX Manual and
Automatic, Picanto, and Soul.
The promo is headlined by Kia
Motors Nigeria ambassador, an ace
musical artist and Nigeria’s biggest
musical exports to the world, Peter
Okoye, one of the duos of PSquare.
Over the years now, Kia has offered
a model range that has been
known as the most affordable yet
trendy cars in the country. In line
with its promise to provide affordable
best in class cars to the market,
the company has presented an exclusive
offer to make great savings
on its locally assembled Kia cars.
The company, in a statement,
disclosed the discounts it is offering
on Picanto, Rio, and Soul is aimed
at attracting customers in this season
by giving them an opportunity
to save big when they buy any of the
models on promo.
“In this offer,” the statement
reads, “customers gets as high as
N810,000 discount in this season.
Segment-wise, Picanto boasts
of N495,000 discount while Rio
1.4-liter EX Manual has N594,000
and 1.4-liter LX and 1.4-liter EX
Automatic both have N765,000 and
N810,000 discounts respectively.
On its part, the Kia Rio is an extremely
well-built car with innovative
engineering, fun to drive, and
its interior is suitably comforting.
Emanating flair from every angle,
the Rio’s low, wide stance and short
overhangs give it a strong, youthful
identity all of its own.
Truck holding bays will check Apapa gridlock- FRSC
Hyginus Omeje, the Sector
Commander of FRSC has
suggested that the setting
up of holding bays will help in controlling
the traffic gridlock in and
around Apapa area of Lagos. He
said the establishment of holding
bays will accommodate trucks and
articulated vehicles before loading.
Omeje said that government
was trying to address the issue by
bringing private investors to put
up the facilities for the benefit of
the residents, adding that, this
was a fundamental issue that was
needed to allow free flow of traffic
within the corridor.
According to him, “I think the
traffic congestion problem in Apapa
will be solved permanently if
holding bays can be established
to take trucks coming in to load.
He said that all owners of tank
farms should provide facilities that
would accommodate trucks coming
into their facilities to load.
“The stakeholders with owners
of tank farms should begin to
pay attention to having a holding
bay that can contain some trucks
before being called in to load,’’ he
said.
The private sectors should
come up with the parks that some
of the trucks can easily move in
and wait for loading instead of
parking along the streets in Apapa,
thereby causing traffic.
Through the process, the next
truck to load in the tank farm will
The Rio comes with high efficiency
and performance, low emissions
and reduced fuel consumption, not
to mention safety specifications of
the highest order. The 10% discount
is applicable to 1.4-liter trim for both
manual and automatic transmission.”
During the promo period, enthusiasts
of both the boxy but refined
Soul and Kia Picanto will enjoy the
10% discount offer. Rooted in the
funky urban DNA with its invigorated
and refined sporty, SUV-like
styling, the Soul presents a host of
cutting-edge technologies and upgraded
performance for an engaging
ride.
The Picanto petite yet headturning
on-road presence makes
the entry-level segment car distinctive
with a flawless synchronization
of refinement and functionality that
will impress even the most discerning
drivers.
be called through electronic callup
system as the method will help
reduce the gridlock.
According to Omeje, the FRSC
has partnered the Nigerian Ports
Authority (NPA) to inspect all
trucks coming into the port for
business. We have had various
meetings with the stakeholders,
registered operators and NPA and
we told them that it will not be
business as usual if their trucks are
not roadworthy.
“Some of the articulated vehicles
are overloaded, thereby causing
traffic along the road. We want
to ensure that our road transport
safety standard schemes are implemented
at the ports for every
truck coming in to load‘’ he said.
‘Micking lubricants offers quality at low price’
Fleet and individual
vehicle owners have
been assure of good
returns on their investment
as Golden
Stone Limited, West Africa’s sole
distributor of Micking; a Korean
number one premium engine oil,
has launched its range of high index
viscosity lubricants into the
Nigeria market.
The high quality varieties of
the product were introduced
to the motoring press during
a Micking range of products
awareness briefing with newsmen
held at the company’s Lagos
office recently. According to
Offor, all Micking engine oil are
synthetic.
Andy Offor, Golden Stone
Chief Executive Officer said he
was out to not only create awareness
about the motor oil, but to
also educate motorists on the
need to always use the right auto
lubricants for their vehicles.
“Many motorists in Nigeria,”
he pointed out, “are suffering as
a result of ignorance and many
don’t know the API’s classification
mark and service symbol
of the engine they use. All they
know is: this oil is good, cheap
and has good packaging without
checking the API ratings”.
He explained that some
engine oil are made for year
1984,1995 and 2000 model engine
and motorist will use them
for their 2005 and 2010 vehicles
respectively without knowing
that every car has a year that, it is
manufactured.
He stated that from the year
of the vehicle’s, you can know
the engine oil suitable for use.
He advised vehicle owners to
go through the rating and see
the API of the oil whenever they
want to buy engine oil, The best
in the market right now is SN, the
top range, SM, the second best
and the next, SL. It goes down
that way.
Offor advised motorists to
service their modern automobile
engines with synthetic oil.
“It protects the life of your
engine against sludge and gives
more mileage and cleans the
engine leading to easy circulation
of fuel. It makes the engine
to consume less fuel and bring
down the temperature of your
engine. These and many more
are the benefits of synthetic engine
oil. That is the difference
between synthetic and conventional
mineral engine oil ’’. He
explained.
He stated: “We have 20 W 50
of Micking oil; 5W 40, 5W30,0 W
40, 0 W 30 and so on, all at SN
and SM level. We have varieties
of engine oil for all vehicles and
our prices are highly competitive
compared with the top range in
the market.’’
Golden Stone deals on various
synthetic and semi- synthetic
Micking oil for both diesel and
gasoline vehicles, generators and
other oil related engines.
To avoid adulteration, Golden
Stone sells its Micking engine oil
to only workshops and end users,
because, according to Offor, the
company “won’t like to have issues
with engine and that is why
we don’t sell Micking in an open
market. We sell to companies and
end users’’.
MOTORING ALERT
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