Toyota’s dominance of the Australian automotive landscape continues. Having filled the two top spots in April sales with their HiLux and Corolla comes the news that their Camry has claimed the title of the best-selling Australian-made car.

A record number of 111,891 Camry sedans were produced last year at Toyota’s Altona plant in Melbourne’s west [...]

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Toyota’s Corolla has taken an early lead as Australia’s best-selling vehicle in 2008, according to official sales figures released today. Corolla posted a January sales record with 3,843 finding new homes in Australia, an increase of 10.3 percent over the previous January’s result.

Corolla has achieved top-seller status in seven months - once in 2005 (September), [...]

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Not since the mid 1960’s has Volkswagen enjoyed its current level of sales in Australia. VW managed to move 27,400 new vehicles in 2007, including passenger and commercial vehicles, in a sign of Australia’s continuing love affair with imported vehicles.

This level of sales was enough to see Volkswagen finish 2007 as the 10th highest selling [...]

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The expected shake-out at Chrysler LLC has begun with the announcement overnight of the automaker’s plan to drop four models from it’s line-up, along with a corresponding 12,000 jobs. Getting the axe are the Chrysler PT Cruiser convertible, Chrysler Pacifica, Chrysler Crossfire, and the Dodge Magnum.

Chrysler have cunningly announced the model culling and the lay-offs [...]

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Australia’s current best selling small car, the Toyota Corolla has reached millionaire status as Toyota Australia announced they have just sold the one millionth Corolla down under.

Toyota has had a very celebratory year with Australian Corollas having just past their 40th anniversary after first landing back in 1967. Having not only found success in Australia, [...]

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Maserati have sent us some wonderful pictures from their display at the Frankfurt Motor Show, where they are celebrating the past, present and future successes of the company.

Their display includes the historic Maserati 250F which Juan Manuel Fangio piloted to what has been described as the greatest Formula One victory in the history of the [...]

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For a little while now there has been speculation that 2007 will be the year that new car registrations crest the million unit milestone and no doubt that is exciting for many. Yet as the figures for June are released we find that our slowly building anticipation is hijacked by a sudden focus on the [...]

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Suzuki launched the face-lifted version of their very popular Swift in Japan about a month ago and the freshened-up Swifts have now found their way to Australian Suzuki dealer forecourts in time to go on sale at the start of July.

Detail changes for both the Swift and Swift S include a new grille, front and [...]

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We featured the new Nissan Dualis a couple of weeks ago. At the time we confessed that we liked the styling of the Dualis, thought that its packaging was spot on and expected it to sell well.

News out of Japan suggests the Nissan Dualis is off to a great start. The Dualis went on [...]

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The sun is certainly shining brightly on anything that wears the Toyota badge at the moment. Bland styling is obviously in vogue and white must be the new black as sales of some of the most boring cars on the market continue to power along. No doubt their sales are driven by the fact that [...]

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