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Melbourne Motor Show: Renault Koleos

SUV with a French accent If you want proof that the car industry is a truly global business look no further than the Renault Koleos. It’s Renault’s first ever purpose-built SUV unless you count some six-wheel voitures the French maker...

Melbourne Motor Show: Ford

After months of prowling Australian roads under a variety of disguises Ford’s FG Falcon makes its debut at the Melbourne Motor Show. Ford’s new Australian boss Bill Osborne says the FG range is 90 per cent new, with revisions to the engines, tr...

Mitsubishi: what went wrong

Mitsubishi: what went wrong   -by Robert Wilson So that’s it then. Not with a bang, indeed not even with much a of whimper. After 28 years Mitsubishi Motors Australia announced the end of production of the 380 in Adelaide, putting 930 employ...

C-Class is 2007 Wheels Car of the Year

The Wheels magazine Car of the Year for 2007 is the Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Wheels editor Ged Bulmer described the third generation W204 series C-Class as “a truly impressive vehicle in practically every area.” (more…)

Indian maker Tata launches $2850 car

Indian maker Tata has revealed its bid to get the country’s growing middle class off their motor scooters and into cars. For a mere 100,000 rupees or about $A2850 (plus charges and taxes – where have we heard that before?) it will offer th...

Crowd runs wild at 2008 Summernats

By Robert Wilson Canberra’s Summernats car festival turned ugly on Saturday night with a mob taking over the event for several hours. The Canberra Times reported a group of several hundred young men marched around the festivals main cruising...

Audi in $50 million showroom drive

Audi Australia has announced plans to build a $50 million showroom and Australian headquarters in Sydney The Audi “lighthouse”, will be built on a 3655sqm site on South Dowling Street in the southern city-fringe suburb of Rosebery. The Victoria...