Yesterday General Motors officially announced that it was dropping the Pontiac brand from its line-up and cutting around 21,000 jobs in the Pontiac plants in the United States. Sadly that’s very bad news for Holden who build the Pontiac G8 at their plant in Adelaide.
Holden had hoped to build around 30,000 G8 models a year [...]
New car sales continue to fall according to figures released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries. The March 2009 figures show a decrease in sales of 17.1 percent compared to March 2008. 75,650 passenger cars, SIVs and commercial vehicles were sold last month.
“This result is certainly down on a year ago but the extent [...]
Last week Ford Australia bit the bullet and recalled over 83,000 Ford Territory vehicles in the culmination of what was a fairly busy seven day period for motor vehicle recalls in Australia.
Alfa Romeo recalled 174 Brera, 159 and Spider automatics fitted with the 3.2 litre V6 engine because of “Insufficient braking ability on cold engine starts” on [...]
Holden has announced that it will reduce output at it’s Elizabeth plant by cutting out the afternoon shift. Workers on the afternoon shift will be retained but will operate on a week on, week off basis with the morning shift.
The Australian managing director of Holden is expected to make an announcement about the moves later today.Â
This week the automotive news from America hasn’t been all that good … unless you were the head of General Motors. Sure he got let go but then who would care about not having a job when you’re slipped a cheque for $US29 million as you walk out the door?
Ford … the one company in [...]
