HOLDEN MAY HAVE lost a lucrative market when the Commodore-based Pontiac G8 got canned (along with Pontiac itself) late last month, but the Australian branch of the General Motors empire is still doing it all it can to claw back some export revenue from its Stateside parent.

GM’s luxury arm Cadillac has placed an order with [...]

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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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Ford has commenced production on the all-new 2009 Ford Fiesta at the Cologne assembly plant in Germany, with other Ford factories around the globe gearing up to produce the automaker’s latest small car offering.

Built off the same B-car platform that underpins the Mazda2, the seventh-generation Fiesta will spearhead Ford’s new One Ford business plan, which [...]

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Fancy something a little more exotic in your garage but don’t want to have to re-mortgage your house to get it? Why not head South of the Border and check out the Mastretta MXT.

The MXT is the first stand-alone sports car project of Mexican design company Mastretta and while it’s already been around for half [...]

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