The death of the Australian automotive industry may have been at least slightly exaggerated. Either that or it’s having an unexpected zombie resurgence, with more people currently working in car manufacturing in Victoria
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Australian automotive manufacturing could now employ more people than worked at Ford’s Broadmeadows and Geelong factories and Holden’s Elizabeth factory combined when local manufacturing officially ended in Australia in 2016 and 2017. The
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General Motors (GM) will finally return to Australia with factory-built and right-hand-drive-engineered SUVs for the first time since the demise of Holden in 2020, starting with the Cadillac Lyriq electric vehicle (EV). Perhaps
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Tom Walkinshaw Racing won four Bathurst 1000s and six V8 Supercars championships before its demise in 2002. Now the son of the TWR founder wants to revive the name to build bespoke sports
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BYD has made the boldest of claims about its newest EV, describing tonight’s Seal launch as “possibly the biggest moment in Australian automotive history”, suggesting the EV’s arrival will outshine anything Ford, Holden,
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New documentary chronicling legendary Aussie car and motorsport rivalry opens in cinemas October 19 Whether you’re a Ford blueblood or a Holden red lion, you’ll be frothing at the news that a feature-length
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Subaru-loving dad isn’t sure about his tradie son moving into a Brumby ute, while other readers are asking about new Prado versus GX, EV driving range, spare parts for Chinese cars and more…
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VinFast, the little-known car company which bought Holden’s test track and initially hired a number of its former engineers and designers, has outlined an ambitious plan to develop right-hand-drive electric cars in India
Read MoreLuxury, longevity, reliability, reputation: these are relevant questions for carsales readers this week as they consider buying used, upgrading to new, diving into an EV for the first time, and more… This week’s
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Aussies have always been car people with a road trip mentality, but the push for electric vehicles is now becoming like religious zealotry — and anyone who dares to criticise it is branded
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