by Stuart Livesey
It’s strange what thoughts can come to you in the dead of the night when all you want to do is sleep.
Yesterday I pointed out in The Japanese Manufacturers Turn Up Everywhere that two of the new vehicles Chrysler wants to introduce into Australia this year are built using a Mitsubishi platform.
Last [...]
by Stuart Livesey
Unless something major happens between now and later in the year 2007 will see Chrysler make a big splash in the Australian motoring market place.
Last year we say Chrysler launch the Dodge Caliber – a rather unattractive vehicle that seems to be neither one thing nor the other.
And this year we’re scheduled [...]
by Stuart Livesey
In case you haven’t noticed it there has been some increased sabre rattling going on in the Middle East. Little George who couldn’t win a fight anywhere has now decided to get tough with Iran and that’s going to push the price of oil up in the weeks ahead.
While economists are expecting a [...]
by Stuart Livesey
One of our daughters is thinking of buying a new small car and that’s a perfect excuse for someone like me to go tyre kicking and collecting a few brochures for her. It also helps that she’s about as tall as me … and that’s rather tall so I can cull the cars [...]
Australian Summer Cars 5
by Stuart Livesey
If you’re looking for a convertible to help you enjoy the Australian summer – and you have over a quarter of a million dollars to spend – then the BMW M6 is for you.
Some describe it as a street-legal F1 while the Australians who now own one are too [...]
There may be no hands on the wheel in the future
by Stuart Livesey
How many times have you come up behind a car on the highway and found that you couldn’t really see anyone in the driver’s seat? Thankfully that’s usually because the driver may be a little vertically challenged but if you were to come [...]
It’s fast becoming a collector’s item in Australia
by Stuart Livesey
The Toyota Soarer was a luxury coupe built by Toyota in Japan from 1981 to 2005. In 1990 Toyota moved the Soarer from it’s regular vehicle line-up to the Lexus brand. The Soarer certainly fitted into the Lexus brand because it’s comfort and equipment levels were [...]
It’s not in the wild just yet but the details, pricing and photos are
by Stuart Livesey
BMW released the X5 in Europe late last year and it’s Australian release – at the Melbourne Motor Show is only weeks away.
But BMW have released images, technical details and pricing and we’ve got them here at Aussie Motoring. The [...]
If you can write a comic then you too can promote this vehicle
The Jeep Patriot is in currently in production and will be released in the United States in the near future.
In a rather unique marketing ploy Jeep is going to promote this vehicle via a comic … written by fans who are being encouraged [...]
Would Holden ever give fans a voice?
Earlier this week Holden’s American cousin – Pontiac – opened Pontiac Underground, a new website designed to:
“designed to tap into the “street-level” energy of fans from all its active and retired brands by uniting and introducing the hundreds of offline and online groups already in existence”
With the slogan of [...]
Australian Muscle in America
by Stuart Livesey
Pontiac will be releasing a new sports sedan in America later this year and once again some Australian muscle will be available in the US. The Pontiac G8 will be a re-badged version of the current Holden SS Commodore built in Holden’s Adelaide plant.
Previously a slightly softer version the Holden [...]
The numbers are very big
Last year new car sales in the United States totaled 16.55 million units. That’s a nice number that the Australian motor industry would love to achieve but the used car market is where the big numbers really are.
In 2006 42.5 million used cars were sold in the US and eBay want [...]
Despite uncertainty about interest rates and fuel costs sales are definitely up
The Australian automotive industry has made a storming start to 2007, notching up record sales in January.
Official VFACTS figures released today by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) show that 76,936 new cars, trucks and buses were sold last month – an increase [...]
Get the poll results
by Stuart Livesey
Back on January 15 I asked the question: how important is a car stereo when you’re thinking about buying a new vehicle. If you follow the link you will see the reason I originally asked that question.
The poll has now closed and the numbers have been crunched. While there wasn’t [...]
Our small town seems to attract more than it’s fair share of exotic cars. This classic Mustang was caught down on the Esplanade at Hervey Bay this morning.
Is it a rushed job?
by Stuart Livesey
Fiat launched it’s new compact car – the Bravo – on Tuesday just 18 months after design and development of the vehicle began. While the name has appeared in the Fiat lineup before it was dropped in 2001 when a completely new vehicle replaced it.
But now it’s back to [...]
