Mazda Australia reckons the third-generation Mazda 3 can steal back the title of Australia’s best selling car from the Toyota Corolla next year. After two full years (2011 and 2012) as the country’s top selling car, the Mazda ...
The 2014 Volvo S60 and V60 are now on sale in Australia, introducing fresh styling and new technologies to the restructured mid-sized line-ups. Volvo Australia has cut the number of variants in its S60 range from 11 to eight (including ...
The sporty Hyundai Accent SR hatch has joined the local division’s updated city-car line-up. Previewed by a concept at last year’s Sydney motor show, the new Accent SR is unique to the Australian market and becomes the third ...
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WET BUT HAPPY: Driver Michael Darras has 3.3 million safe miles under his buckle. GREEN BAY WIS. -- Neither rain nor snow nor federal government shutdowns could stop Freightliner from delivering its 25,000th rig to Schneider National's ...
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Two bicycle committees at the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry have new chairmen, and the WFSGI's wheel committee is getting a new member to replace a member who left the wheel industry. SRAM's Bernhard Johanni?succeeds ...
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Freight volumes are higher than they've been in "many, many" years, but there remains excess capacity in the marketplace and continued downward pressure on rates. Doug Munro, president of Maritime-Ontario Freight Lines, told a packed ...
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Jacquie Meyers, president of Meyers Transportation Systems, issued a plea to shippers and carriers attending the Surface Transportation Summit, to re-evaulate the tender process that she has commoditized the trucking business. "There are ...
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The NPD Group has agreed to buy Leisure Trends Group, a Boulder-based market research company that tracks retail and wholesale sales and inventory figures in the bike industry. The NPD Group, based in Port Washington, N.Y., offers market ...
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The second-generation BMW X6 has been spotted testing in near-production-ready prototype form for the first time. Expected to start production at BMW‘s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina in August 2014 alongside its X3, X4 and X5 ...
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Ford has revealed a fully autonomous parking system that allows drivers to reverse park their car from outside the vehicle. Currently employed in a Focus prototype, Ford’s Fully Assisted Parking Aid utilises the car maker’s ...
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Lamborghini has made touring its exclusive Sant’Agata museum an everyday possibility for fans of the brand around the world via a new expansion of Google Maps. Derived from Google’s street view technology, the Lamborghini ...
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Our Rating: Performance, Ride & Handling 4.5 Comfort & Interior 4.5 Quality & Design 5 Value & Features 4 The existing Aston Martin V12 Vantage is my favourite model to emerge from the British concern, more of a personal ...
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Ford Australia will continue its backing of the Ford Performance Racing (FPR) V8 Supercars team for the 2014 season. Moments before Saturday’s Bathurst 1000 Top 10 qualifying, in which FPR’s Mark Winterbottom qualified second ...
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The first images and details of the Mazda 3 Hybrid have been released ahead of the fuel-efficient small car’s Japanese launch next month. Specifics of the Mazda 3 Hybrid’s petrol-electric powertrain – which has been ...
A new front-engined Ferrari coupe appears to be in the works with patent images leaked onto the web. Early reports are mixed with some suggesting the two-door could be a hardcore or one-off version of the four-seat FF or, perhaps more ...
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