The economic news for the car industry just goes on getting worse. Daimler, the luxury car manufacturer has admitted that things are so bad for them that they will suspend production for an entire month beginning on December 11.
For some time now it’s been fairly obvious that Ford would be looking to sell it’s 1/3rd share in Mazda. While that may have been a very tough decision for Ford to make because a lot of Ford’s research and development work is actually done by Mazda it was a decision that looked inevitable thanks to [...]
The Nissan Motor Company is about to issue recall notices for 204,361 vehicles in the United States.
The recall is to check for a fault in the passenger side airbag that could occure in a range of models built between March 12, 2007 and May 27, 2008. Nissan suspects that the number of vehicles that are [...]
A recent study (April 2008)Â done by RDA Group has found that Ford is in a statistical dead heat with Toyota and Honda for inital quality. The quarterly study measured customer feedback from drivers of Ford vehicles as well as competitive makes and models.
Of course the study just happened to be commissioned by Ford.
Perhaps this is [...]
Early yesterday the word was out that Ford was planning to cut around 500 jobs from their Victorian operations because demand for their big-car products was down. By late yesterday afternoon it was Holden’s turn to announce reductions that will impact on over 3,000 works in South Australia.
It appears that Holden may not be cutting [...]
If there is one thing that both Ford and Holden are lacking in Australia it’s a hybrid car to attract buyers who want to be environmentally friendly.
Sadly neither of the big two seem interested in filling that gap anytime soon. Holden may have unveiled the Chevy Volt at the Sydney Motor Show last week but [...]
It seems that Ford Australia is about to cut hundreds of jobs from its plants in Victoria. This latest round of cuts is in addition to the job cuts previously announced.
Ford’s Victorian operation produces larger vehicles that are out of favour with the marketplace so it’s possible that even more positions might go in the [...]
Every cloud has a silver lining … at least for someone … and the current economic storm clouds certainly have some silver linings for any Australian new car buyer who has the cash or the credit to make a purchase right now. And things could get even better in the near future.
Right now Holden has [...]
In America there used to be the big three auto makers – General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Now of course we have the very weak and wobbly three as sales plummet, credit evaporates and fuel becomes so expensive that even the Americans now want smaller, more fuel efficient cars.
Soon though there’s a very strong possibility [...]
Here in Australia new car sales are down but then that’s only to be expected. Financial times are tough and people tend to put off major purchases at times like this. Even if they want to buy a new car credit is harder to come by and no one really knows where interest rates are [...]
New figures show that vehicle sales remained softer in September, reflecting the broader slow down in the Australian economy.
Official VFACTS data released today by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) show that 80,938 cars, trucks and buses were sold in September – down 3.1 per cent (2,551 vehicles) compared to the same month last [...]
