Category: Australia

Haval H6 plug-in hybrid back on the cards for Australia

Chinese brand Great Wall Motors is set to expand its Haval H6 family SUV range with a plug-in hybrid version – following the popularity of the regular hybrid model. View 5 images GWM Haval

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Call to accelerate electric car transition – Bega District News

Polestar’s sustainability head says the transition to electric vehicles must happen faster. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS) Major car brands are failing to move to electric vehicles fast enough and must speed up their efforts

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Incoming: Purple patch for new cars in 2023

AFTER a few years hamstrung by various pandemic- then war-related chip, component supply and transport issues, 2023 is shaping up as a purple patch in Australia’s new-vehicle market with more than 100 new

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Used cars breaking down immediately and others damaged by floods drive complaints in WA

Used cars that broke down almost immediately and others damaged by floods in the eastern states have fuelled a big jump in complaints in Western Australia. Consumer claims about defective second-hand vehicles in

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Tesla Model 3 overtakes Toyota Camry as Tesla dominates 2022 electric car sales – Car News

Tesla has overtaken Toyota, becoming the brand with Australia’s most popular sedan, as the Model 3 electric car outsold the veteran Camry for the first time in 2022. Though the mid-size car segment

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China’s MG goes from strength to strength in Australia, outselling Hyundai and Mitsubishi in December 2022 – is this a sign of things to come? – Car News

MG has had a stratospheric rise in Australia over the course of the last year, but its sales performance in the last month of 2022 might be a sign of even bigger things

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FCAI releases motorcycle sales for 2022

The FCAI, the peak body for Australia’s automotive industry, has today released sales figures for motorcycles and off highway vehicles (OHV) for 2022. A total of 99,030 motorcycles and OHVs were sold representing

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NZ Sales: Second-strongest year on record

NEW ZEALAND set a passenger car and SUV sales record in 2022 with annual registrations of 116,445 models representing a 3.8 per cent increase (4302 units) compared with 2021.   Overall, the new

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Market Insight: Toyota’s winning streak

TOYOTA’s Australian sales kept the car-maker as the most popular for the 20th consecutive year in 2022 – and a total of 26 years at the top – despite a tough 12 months

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Australia’s best-selling hybrids and plug-in hybrids of 2022

Toyota continued to dominate hybrid-car sales in Australia last year – but a number of rivals are also in the race. Here are the best-selling hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2022. View 6

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