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Car industry
Imagine the US without the Ford Motor Company
Ford continues losing scary amounts of money. Are we witnessing the death of a carmaking legend? Glenn Dyer investigates.
Toyota follows it rivals into a financial ditch
If Toyota thought it was going survive the US car market slowdown, it was wrong, writes Glenn Dyer.
Want a four day working week? Move to Utah
In the bid tos ave the planet, Utah is giving workers an extra day a week off. Is that an idea that could catch on? Glenn Dyer investigates.
Australians buying gas-guzzlers in record numbers
It’s OK for Australians to complain about high petrol prices, just don’t ask them to stop buying thirsty cars, says Glenn Dyer.
Briefly Business: Cars, Rio’s payrise, Ponzi schemes
US car market suffering … On Ponzi schemes … Welcome to a Jekyll and Hyde economy .. Rio gets a pay rise.
Why toll roads can no longer be regarded as a low risk investment
Listed infrastructure vehicles in their current form are either dead, or in intensive care, writes Adam Schwab.
SUVs off the shopping list in the US, but not here
Record petrol prices mean that fewer Americans are purchasing SUVs. But the same thing isn’t happening here in Australia, writes Glenn Dyer.
No tax relief on petrol for work-related travel
Taxpayers will have to wait a full twelve months to get some tax relief from surging petrol prices. Bernard Keane explains.
Car subsidy shows Rudd’s true colours
The treatment of the car industry sends a clear signal to every other economic sector, writes Bernard Keane.
Has Kev got a deal for you — old technology hybrids, going expensive
as any rev-head Top Gear fan knows, the technology that has made the Prius the feel-good pin-up of the overtly green isn’t really very flash anyway, says Michael Pascoe.
Hybrid cars are Stone-Age thinking
There are two ways of viewing hybrid cars, writes Bernard Keane: from a hardline carbon abatement position and from a realist position.
Oh what diversity! Spinning the hybrid hype
This morning’s newspapers don’t seem to be able to agree on the facts on Rudd’s Toyota hybrid announcement, let alone the weight that should be given to those facts, writes Margaret Simons.
Rudd’s hybrid con and automotive Darwinism
No-one seems looking at what is an obvious question: does government policy hinder or help the over-consumption of petrol in this country? Glenn Dyer laments the hypocrisy.
Cutting tariffs: short-term pain, long-term gain
Cutting tariffs below their current levels will of course harm the car industry. That’s actually how tariff cuts have helped economic growth in the last decade – by slowly moving resources from lower productivity industries to higher productivity industries, writes Nick Gruen.
