The magic remains, but in tandem with the demise of
the Australian car industry, the brutal sedan's relevancy is on the decline.
Not exact matches
TOYOTA has topped the quarterly sales figures for passenger
cars in Western
Australian for the first time, according to
industry statistician VFACTS.
Mr Macfarlane told The
Australian Financial Review that salvaging the domestic
car industry was «the biggest challenge in the
industry portfolio».
Food and grocery is also likely to play an increasingly important role in the future as traditional manufacturing areas, like the
car industry, move off - shore, and international demand for
Australian products increases.
concludes his account of Alexander Winton — unsung pioneer of the American motor
car industry / Smiths Instruments — Kevin Desmond traces the history of the company that for / VSCC of Australia Diamond Jubilee of the
Australian Grand Prix — a report by Bernie Jacobson /
Australian Bicentennial Rally — Six pages of photographs and reports on this largest ever gathering of pre-war
cars in Australia / French Champagne Rally Malcolm tells how he enjoyed himself on the Route du Champagne / Casting a new block for a bus — Who says you can't cast a new engine block using the old one as a pattern?
But AAA has released results from the first 10 vehicles tested ahead of two government reviews, the Ministerial Forum on Vehicle Emissions and the
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's market study of the new -
car - retailing
industry.
1903 12hp Bardon — Exploded Blueprints of the Bardon / The Origin's of Heiner Rossler's Rapier A Slice of Rapier History / The 1909 prototype Silver Stream — The remarkable surviving Irish 1909 Prototype /
Australian Lincolns — Bill Bishop examines one of the earliest but short lived attempts to establish an
Australian motor
industry / Wolsleys 1935 - 1948 — The Trustworthy Wolsleys / The 1921 Touring GN — Michael Brisby falls under the spell of the
car that proved economical motoring could be most entertaining!
[92] This rebranding scheme was the result of the Button
car plan, introduced in May 1984 to rationalise and make the
Australian automotive
industry more competitive on a global scale by means of reducing import tariffs.
A thriving cottage
industry in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom has imported and converted Ram trucks to right - hand - drive and to meet the local regulations, being more common in Australia since LHD
cars less than 30 years old (or 15 years old if registered in Western Australia) can not be legally driven on
Australian public roads unless they are granted a diplomatic or a research and development exception to the rule.
By the ACF's figures, the average Aussie driver could save $ 1,000 a year, if they drove a
car that managed a fuel efficiency standard of 6.8 L / 100 km [34.6 miles / gallon (US)-RSB- but they observe that only one
Australian manufactured
car model had an efficiency of less than 10L / 100 km [23.5 miles / gallon (US)-RSB- in 2006, so they don't hold out much hope for voluntary agreements with the
car industry as likely to bear much fruit.