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DECLINING SALES brought about by the economic downturn may force German supercar manufacturer Porsche to slow production of its 911 range for seven non-consecutive days at its Zuffenhausen factory.
Porsche previously cut production back in late 2008 over the Christmas break. Continuing soft sales may again see Porsche take action to avoid an inventory surplus.
A Porsche [...]
RISING CONCERNS ABOUT the risks near-silent hybrid vehicles pose to pedestrians, in particular the vision-impaired, has prompted Japan’s Transport Ministry to seek views on how to best remedy the problem.
With hybrid vehicles now the top sellers in Japan, the Ministry has called on consumers, police, vision-impaired groups, and automakers to discuss adding a mandatory sound-generating [...]
HYBRID TECH is increasingly the flavour of the month; now, even the most un-green marques such as Ferrari are contemplating their own petrol-electric high-performance models.
Not wanting to be left out of the game, it appears McLaren is looking to establish a hybrid vehicle program of its own.
The British supercar maker has advertised a job vacancy [...]
MERCEDES-BENZ is expected to issue some light cosmetic refinements to its volume-selling C-Class sometime next year, with the most visible changes limited to bumper, wheel and lamp-cluster designs.
Interior trim changes will likely feature in the MY 2011 update as well, while the C-Class’s mechanical package will also undergo some subtle refinements.
Mercedes has already started to [...]
VFACTS SALES FIGURES for June 2009 contain a few surprises, not the least the strength of the recovery in the light commercial market.
This segment, it would seem, is being fuelled strongly by the Federal Government’s 50 percent tax rebate on equipment purchases to eligible small businesses. And while it’s hard to say it is propping [...]
ALTHOUGH BMW WON’T be bringing the admirably powerful diesel-powered 740d Australia’s way, the German automaker’s local arm will still be rolling out a number of new diesel models in the near future.
Chief among these is the new 330d sedan, which shares its 3.0 litre twin-turbo diesel powerplant with the just-launched 730d.
Generating a healthy 180kW and [...]
SYDNEY LORD MAYOR Clover Moore has today renewed her commitment to clearing the Sydney CBD’s “unpleasant” and “congested” roads of cars, with a view to creating more public squares and cycling paths.
Ms Moore said the Sustainable Sydney 2030 - first unveiled in early 2008 - focuses on improved access and safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and [...]
DESPITE THE DECISION last year to cancel the 2009 Brisbane Motor Show, and the economic downturn raising fears that 2010 might also pass it by, the event’s organisers have announced the Show will return in February next year.
The 2010 Brisbane Motor Show will run for only five days - half as long as in [...]
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST mid-engine sports car, the Joss Supercar, is a little over two months away from making its debut, with potential buyers and investors alike lining up at Joss’s door.
Ten solid orders have been locked in thus far, and Joss has been reorganised into an unlisted private company to fully exploit growing interest from investors.
The [...]
WITH THE RECENTLY REVEALED 2010 BMW 5 Series GT set to hit showrooms early next year, BMW has confirmed plans to pull the same trick with the 3 Series, aiming for a 2011 launch of the BMW 3 Series GT.
As with its 5 Series sibling, the 3 Series GT, with styling based on the upcoming [...]
WITH THE NEXT GENERATION of Mercedes-Benz A and B-Class small cars in the planning stages, there is mounting speculation that the next generation of small cars to wear the three-pointed star may be spawned from an unlikely alliance.
German publication Auto Motor und Sport, believes that Daimler could make use of a Toyota platform for the [...]
A SURVEY of 75 cars by Victorian insurer and automotive club RACV has revealed a silver lining to the economic downturn, with the cost of owning and running a car falling by an average seven percent in the past 12 months.
The RACV survey points to competitive purchase prices, lower service costs, loan interest, registration and [...]
IN-CAR COMPUTER systems have been a popular pursuit for aftermarket hobbyists for years, shoving small Windows, Linux and Mac-based computers into the glove compartment and hooking them into a touch-screen LCD in the centre stack.
Carmakers are swiftly catching on however, and over the past few years increasing numbers of in-car computers are appearing as a [...]
THE HOLDEN COMMODORE SS may be alive and well in Australia, but its American twin, the Pontiac G8, is on its last legs now that the Pontiac badge has been retired and GM CEO Fritz Henderson has ruled out shifting the car to another brand.
As a nod to the early passing of a potential hero [...]
The Mazda MX-2 is expected to draw styling inspiration from the popular Furai concept.
THE MAZDA MX-5 may soon have a new baby brother, according to the team at Auto Express.
Mazda is reportedly working on an entry-level two-seater roadster, dubbed the MX-2, which is said to take styling cues from the eye-catching Mazda Furai concept.
The consensus [...]
CARVER EUROPE, the Dutch company responsible for the extraordinarily dramatic Carver One three-wheeler, has declared bankruptcy and closed up shop.
While not exactly possessing the broadest consumer appeal, the Carver One - which put in an appearance at the Melbourne Motor Show - boasted a unique and innovative automatic tilting mechanism that improved manoeuvrability while looking [...]
NOT TOO LONG AGO hydrogen was the flavour du jour of the alternative energy movement, with most of the world’s major carmakers scrambling to establish their own experimental hydrogen car programs.
Now the tables have turned, and the humble electric motor - which ironically was more popular than the internal combustion engine before the widespread discovery [...]
GM US, in bankruptcy, is seeking approval from a US bankruptcy court to sell its best bits, its most valuable assets… to itself.
Now while this might seem like yet more corporate jiggery-pokery (and there has been a lot of that around), GM CEO Fritz Henderson told the court that sale of GM’s best assets, [...]
COUPE ENTHUSIASTS with a little more to spend and a taste for something even more high-end than the stylish C-Class And E-Class Coupes, will be closely watching the progress of the upcoming 2011 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe. This model will replace the CL moniker in the company’s model name shake-up.
The rendering (above), along with new [...]
LAMBORGHINI HAS REVEALED that the striped, orange Gallardo we first saw a couple of days ago is indeed the eagerly awaited LP550-2, and, aside from being the first RWD Lamborghini in almost ten years, it’s also named after the most famous test driver on the planet.
Valentino Balboni has been Lamborghini’s principal test driver since 1973, [...]
THE NISSAN GT-R is wowing both fans and naysayers alike with its super-quick laps of the Nurburgring - most recently pulling a 7 minute 26.7 second lap - and its victory in the 2009 World Performance Car of the Year awards back in April.
Now the Japanese supercar has made its way into the Italian [...]
PORSCHE HAS made a big thing out of its four-door Panamera, and now news has come through that the German supercar manufacturer will offer V6 and hybrid versions of the currently V8-only super saloon in 2010.
Porsche is working to bring a hybrid version of the Cayenne SUV to market, using an Audi-sourced 3.0 litre V6, [...]
LESS THAN A DAY after we first saw leaked pictures of what many are saying is the highly-anticipated RWD Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2, a mysterious Gallardo prototype has been spotted undergoing trials at the Nurburgring.
Sporting the front bumper and rear-end styling of the old Gallardo instead of the LP560-based nose we saw in the leaked photos, [...]
SUZUKI HAS LIFTED the covers on its all-new race-ready 2010 RM-Z250, set to hit these shores shores in October.
Like its bigger brother, Suzuki’s RM-Z450 motocrosser, the RM-Z250 will be the first production motocross machine in its class to introduce electronic fuel-injection to four-stroke motocross racing.
The 2010 RM-Z250 is a completely new package, which, besides its [...]
AS A SPORTSCAR MANUFACTURER, Porsche has traditionally avoided any new technology that would get in the way of, or otherwise compromise, the outright performance of its evergreen 911 model lineup.
While battery-electrics like the Tesla Roadster have proved that scintillating acceleration can easily be delivered by electric power alone, Porsche has been loath to adopt the [...]
MORE THAN A FEW writers have explored the idea of an advanced future society that, having left the car and its pollution-belching engine behind, lives in perfect harmony with the environment.
It seems however that there’s a little less fiction in the idea than we might have thought. The German town of Vauban, near the [...]
THE UNVEILING of the 2010 Jaguar XJ on July 9 is just over a week away, and, as we draw closer, Jaguar is slowly revealing more and more information about its revitalised flagship (while keeping us in the dark on the question of its looks).
The fourth instalment in a series of short videos introducing [...]
GENERAL MOTORS is looking to divest itself of around AU$15 billion in costs during its Chapter 11 reorganization, leading to a GM that could actually turn a profit, spend more on development, and resuscitate supply lines when existing stock clears out and new models can once again become the focus.
GM is also hoping to [...]
PRESSURE FROM THE Global Financial Crisis, soaring petrol prices, a consumer shift away from large cars and a number of large, one-off expenses have all conspired to hit Holden squarely in the hip pocket.
Australia’s iconic automaker recorded a $70.2 million loss for 2008, thanks in large part to a whopping $76.8 million bill for various [...]
The 2010 Audi Ur-Quattro is expected to be based on the A5 coupe.
REPORTS OUT OF EUROPE suggest that Audi is moving closer to shifting speculation of an Audi Ur-Quattro rebirth into reality, with an ultra-lightweight all-wheel-drive model based on the A5 coupe planned for a late 2010 launch.
Since the ‘Ur-Quattro’ debut in 1985, the automotive [...]
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