Australia's three surviving car makers have called for continued financial support, a reassessment of tariffs and trade agreements, and policy clarity in their submissions to the Federal Government's inquiry into the current state and the ...
Tags: Car Makers, Call for Support, Productivity Commission Submissions
There’s a little bit of Toyota in the Mazda 3 Hybrid. This version of the third-generation 3 small car borrows hybrid components from the Prius and mates it with its own 2.0-litre petrol engine to create its first petrol-electric ...
Toyota vice president Mitsuhisa Kato has confessed the brand had pursued volume to the detriment of quality, but insisted a fresh Toyota New Global Architecture Plan (TNGA) will fix those issues while saving up to 30 per cent in production ...
Tags: Toyota, Platform-Sharing, Toyota New Global Architecture
A new, longer-bodied Subaru Legacy concept unveiled at the Los Angeles motor show yesterday does not reflect the design expected to hit showrooms in Australia late next year, a Subaru insider has told CarAdvice. The insider said the ...
Tags: 2014 Subaru Liberty
Toyota Australia sales and marketing executive director Tony Cramb has revealed that an official decision on whether to close the company’s local manufacturing operations will be made “in the first half of 2014″. ...
Tags: MID-2014, Toyota, Local Manufacturing
The Nissan Altima is not a replacement for the Maxima, despite the former arriving as the latter departs. That’s the word from Nissan Australia, which reasons that the Altima is a medium car while the Maxima is a large car, despite ...
Toyota Motor Corporation boss Akio Toyoda has said the company’s Australian manufacturing operations needs to “aim at achieving sustainable growth” if it is to remain viable. Speaking at a pre-Tokyo motor show dinner, ...
Tags: Toyota, Australian Plant
Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor will reportedly discontinue assembling Camry at Subaru Indiana Automotive’s (SIA) plant in the US, from 2017. The factory in Lafayette, Indiana, assembles 100,000 Camry cars annually, in addition to ...
Toyota Australia engineers “absolutely” welcome its global president’s directive to make its cars more fun to drive, committing to make the next generation Toyota Camry more dynamic than the current model. Confirmed in ...
The Toyota Technical Centre Australia (TTC-AU) is designing and engineering the next HiLux-based Toyota Fortuner not just for the global market, but also Australia, confirming the second-generation large SUV will launch in 2015. Speaking ...
Tags: Toyota Australia, Fortuner SUV
The next-generation Hyundai i45 may be a chance for Australia if the company can get its formula right for a two-pronged attack on the medium-car segment. Speaking at the launch of the Hyundai ix35 Series II in Queensland last week, ...
Tags: Next-Gen, Hyundai I45
October 2013 Australian New Car Sales Figures 1 Toyota 18,129 2 Holden 10,528 3 Hyundai 8,130 4 Mazda 7,967 5 Ford 7,486 6 ...
Tags: Car Sales
The introduction of the Lexus ES350 and ES300h sees the return of the Lexus ES line after a seven-year absence in Australia. The sixth-generation Lexus ES follows the traditionally conservative nature of the ES models that have come ...
Warrior passenger tires are about to enter the United States for the second time. The tire line was re-introduced by Double Coin Holdings Ltd. and the China Manufacturers Alliance LLC at the 2013 Global Tire Expo in Las Vegas. Two models, ...
Tags: Auto Parts, tire, tyre
The Toyota Corolla has all but sewn up Australia’s 2013 sales crown, edging further ahead of the Mazda 3 with just two months of the year remaining. The Corolla was again the country’s top-selling car in October, beating the ...