{"id":58006,"date":"2026-11-11T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bridgestone-partners-with-sagmj-to-drive-the-next-chapter-of-sa-car-of-the-year-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:45:03","slug":"bridgestone-partners-with-sagmj-to-drive-the-next-chapter-of-sa-car-of-the-year-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bridgestone-partners-with-sagmj-to-drive-the-next-chapter-of-sa-car-of-the-year-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgestone Partners with SAGMJ to Drive the Next Chapter of SA Car of the Year Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Guild of Mobility Journalists (SAGMJ) has announced Bridgestone Southern Africa as the new headline sponsor of the prestigious South African Car of the Year (COTY) competition, marking a new chapter for one of the country&rsquo;s longest-running and most respected automotive awards. This partnership brings together two organisations with a shared interest in automotive safety, innovation and performance as the competition prepares to enter its 41st edition in 2027. <\/p>\n<p>As a global leader in tyre technology and mobility solutions, Bridgestone brings a strong heritage of innovation, safety and performance to the partnership. Its extensive product portfolio spans motorsport, passenger vehicles, light and heavy commercial vehicles, earthmoving and agricultural equipment, motorcycles and aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgestone Southern Africa&#039;s headline sponsorship comes at a time when South Africa&rsquo;s automotive landscape is undergoing significant transformation, driven by the arrival&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=79120&#038;page=bridgestone-partners-with-sagmj-to-drive-the-next-chapter-of-sa-car-of-the-year-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Guild of Mobility Journalists (SAGMJ) has announced Bridgestone Southern Africa as the new headline sponsor of the prestigious South African Car of the Year (COTY) competition, marking a new chapter for one of the country&rsquo;s longest-running and most respected automotive awards. This partnership brings together two organisations with a shared interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Bridgestone%20at%20NAMPO%202.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Bridgestone%20at%20NAMPO%202.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}