Ford in the US has announced plans to reduce their focus on producing hybrid technology motor vehicles (the Toyota Prius is a hybrid) and turn their attention to building vehicles powered by biofuels.
Around September last year Ford committed itself to building the production capacity required to roll 250,000 off the production line by the [...]
With Holden’s announcement last week that it would introduce Electronic Stability Control to it’s next Commodore range the Australian motoring public were exposed to some interesting technology has the potential to save a lot of lives.
Aussie Motoring sent feature writer – Russ Egan – out into the World Wide Web to find out just what [...]
Could it be something out of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds� Actually, these mechanized vehicles and those that drive them “come in peace,†as hundreds of Volkswagen New Beetles trek to the New Mexico desert for the 7th Annual Roswell New Beetle “2K Car Show Weekend,†June 23 – 25, 2006.
This year, Volkswagen [...]
The sales of new motor vehicles in Australia rose slightly in May despite the continuing increase in the price of petrol.
However, that rising price of fuel had a negative affect on the sale of SUVs where there was a slight decrease in the number sold during May. Sales of SUVs have now been falling for [...]
Holden announced today that electronic stability control would be included as standard equipment on it’s new range of VE Commodores, Statesman, Caprice and Captiva modelsdue out later this year.
Electronic stability control helps drivers maintain control of their vehicles and prevent crashes by immediately identifying when the vehicle skids, swerves suddenly or when road conditions [...]
… then the news from Ford America must look good.
The word is that sometime this decade Ford will release a 4.4 litre V8 diesel for it’s F-150.
The Auto Blog is reporting that the new engine is currently in the development and planning stage.
If you happen to live in a tourist destination or you spend a lot of time travelling on the highways around this great country you will know just how popular motor homes are becoming here in Australia. You will see everything from old Bedford buses converted into quite rough and ready accommodation right through to [...]
Honda announced yesterday that it was recalling over half a million vehicles manufactured between Oct 3 1994 and May 15 1997 because of a faulty part used in starting the engine.
Models affected include Oddyssey minivans, CR-V SUVs and Step vans. The affected vehicles were sold in Japan, the United States, Europe and various Asian and [...]
Yeah who wants to be tied to the land with their 4WD, quad bike or two seater sports car when you can take them out to sea with you.
Amphibious vehicles are nothing new – the Army has quite a fleet of them, there have been amphibious cars before and many years ago one very brave [...]
A trip to Brisbane from Hervey Bay on a Sunday afternoon usually takes around four to five hours and even though a some of the trip is along a multi-lane highway up until recently you could expect the traffic to be heavy and moving very slowly on that multi-lane part of the trip.
Last weekend the [...]
They say that politics makes for some strange bedfellows but now Formula 1 could be challenging politics as Case IH and Ferrari shre the spotlight at Grand Prix Events in North America.
Ferrari team cars will feature prominent Case IH decals during the Grand Prix of Canada in Montreal, June 25; and the U.S. Grand Prix [...]
The 2006 Kia Rio/Rio5 ranked highest for initial quality in the sub-compact category according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Initial Quality StudySM (IQS). The annual report, released yesterday, measures 217 vehicle attributes across eight categories, including driving experience, engine and transmission, and a broad range of quality problem symptoms reported by vehicle owners. [...]
The Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group ranks as the sixth largest automotive manufacturer in the world, according to the Detroit-based weekly Automotive News.
In Automotive News’ most recent survey of global automotive sales and production, Hyundai Motor Co. and its subsidiary Kia Motors Corp. registered an 11.6 percent jump in global sales in 2005 to 3,715,096 [...]
Well it could just be possible and it could already be built … but no one is admitting to seeing it yet.
Tesla Motors claimes to have built an totally electric car – not a hybrid like the Prius – that can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h just four seconds. It also claims that the [...]
The Australian Transport Council has adopted a proposal from the Queensland Government to undertake a range of initiatives designed to promote the use of electronic stability control in Australian motor vehicles.
It appears as the the Transport Council was impressed by some interesting statistics from countries like Sweden and Japan and you can read more by [...]
As a little bit of publicity for Aussie Motoring we have the URL emblazoned across the rear windscreen of our car and for some reason it seems to bring out the worst in some motorists. Some drivers seem to want to impress us by sitting glued to our tail on the highway – [...]
It seems that it could be Kia with 75,474 vehicles sold overseas in May – an 8.2% increase on sales for the same time last year. Sales in Europe are up 12% and sales in United States were up 6.4%.
At the same time Volkswagen reported a 35.6% increase in sales in May in the US [...]
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Toyota is issuing a world wide recall for 986,000 vehicles across nine models that includes the Prius. The recall is to replace a faulty part in the steering system.
Letters should start going out to owners around the middle of this month.
