The Ford Everest concept has been revealed to preview Ford’s new seven-seater SUV that’s related on the Ranger ute and expected to go on sale in 2015. The Everest boasts an uncanny resemblance from some angles to the Ford ...
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The Holden Trax will offer city-sized SUV packaging for small-car pricing when it goes on sale in Australia in September. Priced from $23,490 before on-road costs, the front-wheel-drive-only Trax becomes the cheapest and smallest member ...
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Holden, the Australian subsidiary of US automaker General Motors (GM), has introduced the new Trax small sport utility vehicle (SUV). The new SUV is offered in two trim levels, the LS and LTZ, which are powered by 1.8L DOHC 16-valve 4 ...
Australia’s peak national motoring organisation says the Federal Government’s $200 million assistance package for the local car industry is an admission that its changes to the fringe benefits tax (FBT) rules were a mistake. ...
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Tata Motors, India’s largest car manufacturer, is set to preview its first vehicle for sale in Australia at the National 4×4 & Outdoors Show in Melbourne at the end of this month. The car maker will display its Xenon ute ...
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General Motors has cut US$5000 ($5600) from the Chevrolet Volt in the US to combat aggressive pricing from its electric rivals. Available later this month, the 2014 Chevrolet Volt will start at US$34,995 ($38,900), including an US$810 ...
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Pontiac, the now-deceased subsidiary of General Motors, was working on a fifth-generation GTO before the car maker was killed off in 2009, it has been revealed. In a Road and Track magazine report, former GM vice-president Bob Lutz ...
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Opel says it will continue to look for new markets outside Europe to sell its vehicles despite shutting down its Australian operations less than a year after opening its doors. An Opel spokesman told Automotive News the company was ...
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Opel Australia dealers walked into last Friday’s meeting in Melbourne expecting exciting news about new vehicles and fresh marketing direction. “We all went there with a great air of anticipation,” one metropolitan Opel ...
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Toyota Australia has announced a $123 million investment in its Victorian manufacturing operations, shoring up its presence on the local automotive scene until at least 2018. The funding will support the production of a “major ...
The Australian Federal Government has awarded $7.3 million to 13 automotive suppliers to help them “develop new markets beyond the automotive sector”. With Ford having announced it will close its manufacturing operations in ...
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The Federal Government has announced a further $200 million funding boost for the Australian automotive industry and mandated a 100 per cent Australian-made target for the purchase of Commonwealth fleet passenger cars. Industry minister ...
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Audi Australia has placed pricing submissions in with Germany to get the Audi A3 e-tron here next year. The launch of the A3 e-tron, which uses a turbo petrol engine and electric motor, would make it Audi’s first hybrid model on ...
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The Holden Commodore has outsold traditional rival Ford Falcon by almost five to one, with the VF generation tallying 2827 units in July and boosting year-on-year performance by 17.8 per cent. Conversely, with a new record low of 594 ...
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Holden’s German sister brand Opel is exiting the Australian market after less than a year, saying it couldn’t make a profitable business case going forward. Opel Australia confirmed the news to CarAdvice after a source ...
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