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Automotive industry
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Anyone for tennis?
Does automotive assistance work? We’ll know ‘in future years’
We could better debate manufacturing assistance if we knew what worked and what didn’t. But we can’t, not yet.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Where have all the flowers gone?
Crikey readers have their say.
Unions: put your money where your mouths are on cars
There’s a great way for unions to directly support the automotive sector themselves. Wonder why they’re not using it, ask Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane?
The car industry’s (not so) merry-go-round
It’s only three years since the car industry was last rescued. Meantime, other parts of manufacturing have got on with the job of lifting productivity.
Cash-for-carbon a clunky addition to a mess of subsidies
Labor’s cash-for-clunkers initiative just adds another subsidy to the many in the motor vehicle sector — some of which directly contradict the point of Saturday’s announcement
Flicking Australia’s electric car switch
Australia’s automotive industry has finally come up with a plan that could go some way in making Australian-based manufactures more globally competitive. Nicholas Way has the leaked report.
Toyota: oh, what a failure
With Toyota having recall after recall, yet still having issues with Sudden Unintended Acceleration, is it a surprise that consumers are so scared of new automobile technology? Glen Fuller explains.
Car sales snap out of reverse
Despite the ending of some tax assistance for small to medium businesses on June 30, car sales jumped up in August.
Left, that’s the right side to drive on. Right?
For the first time in over 30 years, a country is to change the side of the road they drive on. Samoa will soon drive on the left, which might prove a win for the Australian car industry.
Time for carmakers to plug electric cars into the transport grid
If you’ll excuse the cliche, “necessity is the mother of invention” prefectly sums up why the electric could be about to have its day, writes Adam Scwhab.
