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Over the last five years, GM has slipped from 2nd place in Australia to its current fourth position. General Motors Holden fears that wit.
How often do we hear of GM being humbled by Hyundai? That’s what’s been happening in Australia in latest weeks, as the Korean brand has over.
Jaguar Land Rover had a record month for worldwide sales in January. Now comes news that February was even better, with a year on year build up.
Can what we now call the QX70, the car that began life as the FX, truly be almost eight years old? It’s still selling strongly too, deliv.
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Fresh car and commercial vehicle sales records in Fresh Zealand continued to fall as the industry passed 100,000 registrations during August, the shortest time this milestone has been reached in a calendar year.
SAIC commercial vehicle brand LDV is launching its fresh pickup truck (‘ute’ or ‘utility’) in Australia, a key market for this type of vehicle.
Australia’s motor industry posted its fourth month of record sales for two thousand seventeen with July as its third successive month of record gains, according to results the official statistical service, VFACTS.
Fresh Zealand’s Motor Industry Association said registrations of 11,631 fresh vehicles in July two thousand seventeen were up marginally by 0.5% year on year.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it had begun proceedings against Ford Australia alleging that it engaged in unconscionable and misleading or deceptive conduct, and made false or misleading representations in its response to customer complaints about a dry dual clutch automatic transmission sold Down Under for about five years.
A lawsuit has been filed in Australia against Toyota, Mazda and Honda, seeking refunds for cars fitted with Takata airbags, according to local reports.
In the final year of local production, with GM and Toyota set to close their factories in October, vehicle sales in Australia set a record monthly result in June, according to VFACTS statisticians.
Boosted by an annual agricultural showcase, registration of 15,985 vehicles in Fresh Zealand in June set records both for that month and for any month of the year.
Volvo Cars is finding that kangaroos in mid-jump befuddle the XC90 autonomous drive prototypes it is testing in Australia.
BYD has expanded its supply of unspoiled electrical buses to Brisbane Airport, eight months after making a commercial debut at the country’s busiest hub in Sydney.