Seven times Bathurst 1000 champion and winner of four Australian Touring Car Championships, Jim Richards, has backed VACC’s Vehicle Safety Campaign.
Richards, who was inducted into the V8 Supercar Hall of Fame in 2006, has thrown his weight behind the campaign that highlights the dangers of driving an unsafe and poorly maintained vehicle.
“Now the winter months [...]

Students in Victoria are being encouraged to add the final flourishes to their VACC Target 2020 Competition entries.
Target 2020 ‘Design the car of the future’ competition is an annual event open to secondary and tertiary students.
The brief is simple: design a car or vehicle for the future which is not only practical, environmentally friendly and [...]

Mazda Motor Corporation is pleased to announce that on May 18, 2010 it received the IAHE Sir William Grove Award from the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) at a presentation ceremony in Essen, Germany.
The IAHE is an international organization that promotes academic and technological advancements in the field of hydrogen energy. Every two years, [...]

German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel had a close look at a concept of the future Golf blue-e-motion in Berlin. Volkswagen is forging new links to the era of electric mobility with this pure electric drive version of the most successful European car ever produced. In 2013, after the debut of the Up blue-e-motion (a new [...]

OSLO, Norway, 11 May, 2010: THINK has completed a US$40 million equity increase to support further product development and planned expansion into North American markets. With the new equity, THINK is now fully funded and expects to become cash-flow positive in 2011.
“The new equity round will help THINK take full advantage of the rapid growth [...]

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will premiere its ASX all-new compact crossover from Tuesday March 2, 2010 to Sunday March 14, 2010 at the 80th Geneva International Motor Show held at the Geneva Palexpo in Switzerland.
The ASX is the European-spec version of the Japanese RVR, which is slated to go on sale in Japan from February [...]

On 16 & 17 March 2010 the Australasian Fleet Managers Association (AfMA) will hold its annual two day conference in Melbourne.
After a year of substantial change in the worldwide automotive industry the time has come to reflect on what those changes were and more importantly what they might mean for the Australian market and Australian [...]

Holden sales are up more than 17% year-on-year with Commodore on track to be Australia’s top selling car for the 14th consecutive year according to figures released today by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.
Holden’s Executive Director of Sales and Marketing, John Elsworth, said 40,041 Commodore’s have been sold year-to-date including 3,956 in November.
“Showroom interest [...]

The LA Auto Show focussed attention on the shock resignation of GM CEO Frederick ‘Fritz’ Henderson after just eight months at the helm.
New chairman Ed Whitacre’s GM statement accepted Henderson’s resignation and like Rick Wagoner before him, Henderson was gone.
The new head of GM America is Mark Reuss, who jumps into the hot seat [...]