General Motors is reportedly nutting out the details of how it will reorganise its operations to restore profitability, and one of the ideas that’s presently on the table is to increase the number of imports of Mexican and Asian-made GM products into the USA.

Such a move would, of course, result in massive plant closures and [...]

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Here’s one for you boys and girls kicking it in the import tuner scene – especially those who lean a little to the Japanese side.

Import Bible is a US-based street-wear label (they do ship to Australia) with a special focus on the import tuning culture, featuring t-shirt designs inspired by the legends of the Japanese [...]

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Given that we are a nation of red-blooded, RWD-lovin’, performance-mad and value-obsessed car junkies, it’s hard to imagine why Nissan never chose to fully import the more recent generations of Skyline into Australia. During the early 1990s Nissan brought over a handful of R32 GT-Rs to cash in on the car’s success in local Group [...]

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In news that is not going to impress Nissan Australia but make a lot of cashed-up enthusiasts feel a bit constricted in the ‘pantal’ region, the new GT-R has received SEVS (Specialist & Enthusiast Vehicle Scheme) approval.

This approval means that at least one importer, a company called GT Compliance according to the RVCS (Road Vehicle [...]

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We’ve seen the JDM style of car customization grow from unknown to played out to solidly ingrained in automotive culture. We’ve also seen bizarre reversals of the trend in which Japanese owners buy a Japanese car only to trick it out USDM style (more on this in a later post). Now, to really twist your [...]

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Recently while trawling the various automotive news websites—as one does—I came across the website for a local automotive liftout published by a well-known international news conglomerate. They’d published an article about a gathering and ‘cruise’ for a certain model of performance-oriented Fords. It was a puff piece written by a “regular reader”, about how joining [...]

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It hasn’t taken long for the R35 GT-R to find its way to Oz, with a number being imported for motorsport purposes. These private imports will never be eligible for road registration but they are set to liven up the local motorsport scene.

The car pictured (another one is on the way) is going to [...]

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News concerning Nissan’s new GT-R just keeps on rolling in and its starting to get real interesting. If you are a GT-R aficionado then you will already know all about the Group N versions that Nissan built alongside the previous generation models. Built so that Nissan could take the GT-R racing in the domestic race [...]

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On the cheap from China is soon to become a reality in the Australian car market place with the doors getting set to open to numerous cheap and cheerful but possibly not so safe Chinese imports.

Inspiring names such as Great Wall Motor, Brilliance China, Chery and Shanghai Automotive are getting set to storm our shores…seriously. [...]

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Hot on the heels of Fords recent $40.3 million loss announcement comes a similar announcement from GM Holden but this loss is a little bigger…to the tune of $146.56 million for the 2006 calendar year.

Holden reported a similar loss of $144.6 million in 2005 which at the time was put down to VE Commodore development [...]

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