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Industry analyst says Australian car industry is doomed

Clive Matthew-Wilson, editor of Australia's Dog & Lemon Guide, says there's no way around a central fact of Australian automobile production: "Australia's car factories are losing money on every vehicle they make." Because of that, he believes that there is no future for the domestic car industry Down Under, no matter how much money the government provides to keep factories open. Matthew-Wilson further believes that General Motors' Holden division will be the first brand thrown into the abyss, trailed closely by Ford. The economics of ... Read more →

Idle hands: AC Schnitzer BMW X6 Falcon Damon Lavrinc

Idle hands are the devil's playthings, and apparently AC Schnitzer has a lot of time on its hands. You're only required to read the first two lines of the company's press release to realize that ...

Aussie Ford FG01 V8 Supercar unveiled Alex Nunez

Click above for a high res gallery of the new FG01 racing car Just as civilian Ford Falcon drivers have a new ride in which to roll, the racers who pilot the competition version of the sedan in ...

Ford releases specs on new FPV Falcons John Neff

Click above for high-res gallery of the new FPV Falcon F6 Ford is getting ready for a battle in Australia for the hearts and minds of performance enthusiasts. Its new FPV Falcons will go head to head ...

Rendered Speculation: 2008 Ford Falcon Orion XR6 John Neff

click above image for high-res version Development mules for the upcoming redesign of the Ford Falcon in Australia are not that hard to come by in the land of Oz. CarAdvice has hosted plenty, and ...

Autoblog Podcast #71 2 years ago on Autoblog

We're shooting from the hip this week for Podcast #71. Rather than prepare, we're going with gut reactions. Starting it off, we mull over the loss of the USGP from Indianapolis, and postulate on where else F1 may pop up in the US. An F1 race on the Vegas strip would be the bomb. Staying with ...

Scoop! Ford Falcon Orion sans camo! 2 years ago on Autoblog

UPDATE: More and better renderings can be found here. Our desire for Australia's Fords and Holdens continues unabated, and the Courier and Mail has managed to snag shots of the new Falcon in the buff, further stoking our flame. While American sedans went all mamby-pamby (what could be more ...

Rendered Speculation: Ford Falcon from Oz 2 years ago on Autoblog

The Australian-market Ford Falcon is one we would like to have on our shores, and may get if Ford wises up and takes a page out of GM's playbook. The Falcon is RWD, comes with turbo V6 engines, V8s, optional El Camino-like truck beds, and it just looks good. Unfortunately, the Falcon has fallen on ...

Man up with the Ford Falcon XR8 Ute 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Ford_Falcon_Commercial_Shows_Ultimate_Man_World'; It's very much a man's world in this new TV spot for Ford's Aussie-market Falcon XR8 Ute. It's a land where sandwiches are delivered by the paperboy in the morning, the ice cream man is replaced by the ...

Spy Shots: Next-gen Ford Falcon 2 years ago on Autoblog

Ford Australia's at work developing the next version of a car we can't have here in the US. Australian website CarAdvice snagged spy shots of camoflaged Falcons undergoing tests in the Melbourne area. Suspicions are that base models as well as turbocharged XRs were pirouetting around getting a ...

Ford Ranger on the ropes 2 years ago on Autoblog

We posted some conjecture about the Ranger not too long ago, with some Photochops to illustrate possible ways Ford could keep its smallest pickup alive. Automotive News has looked in to their crystal ball and determined that the future of the Ranger is murky, at best. The first bad sign is that the ...

Spies spot RWD Ford in Detroit 2 years ago on Autoblog

Looky, looky. Spies from KGP have caught a rear-wheel drive Ford from Australia at Ford's engineering centers in Detroit. In fact, the car appears to be in the process of being unboxed after its long trip from Oz. What does it mean that this car, presumably a rear-wheel drive Falcon prototype, has ...

In the Autoblog Garage: Toyota Aurion Sportivo SX6 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click on the image for a gallery of high-res pics of the Toyota Aurion Sportivo SX6 For years, the large, family car market in Australia has been divided between the Aussie built GM Holden Commodore and the Ford Falcon, both on the road and on the track. The large car market has been characterised ...

Brisbane Motor Show: Aussie Utes 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click on the image for a gallery of high-res images of Ford and GM Holden Utes. At the Brisbane Motor Show, which started on Friday, Ford and GM Holden, plus their tuning groups Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) and Holden Special Vehicles (HSV), had plenty of top Aussie utes on display, ranging from ...

Saving Lincoln one RWD concept at a time 2 years ago on Autoblog

Lincoln's recent fall from grace can be attributed to a number of factors and compelling product is certainly at the top of that list. According to an article in Business Week, Lincoln plans to rectify the situation posthaste, beginning with a rear-wheel-drive concept set to debut in Detroit this ...

VIDEO: Ford Fairmont Ghia 3 years ago on Autoblog

We've spent so much time here at Autoblog yelling about the rank awesomeness of GM's Australian product, we forget that The Blue Oval brand has some pretty rockin' stuff in the land of Oz as well. In fact, it's just as good. We've just been so busy obsessing over Ford's stellar European lineup ...

Ford FPV brings more power, handling to the Aussies 3 years ago on Autoblog

Click on image to enlarge We would normally start off this post by lamenting the fact that Ford seems to give more love to markets outside North America than it does within the U.S. We're tiring of that intro, so we'll just give you the information and let you draw your own conclusions about why ...

2007 Ford Falcon: More RWD love for our mates downunder 3 years ago on Autoblog

We've complained that the European market gets the delectable Focus RS, while we, in the automaker's home country, have to endure bland styling updates and an anemic naturally-aspirated (read: boring) power source. Now, Ford shoves the knife in a little bit deeper, offering the Australian market a ...

Ford Australia investment could spawn next Crown Vic 3 years ago on Autoblog

As we reported earlier today Ford's Australian arm has announced a big investment that includes aid from the Australian government. It will result in the development of an engineering and design "centre of excellence" for the Asia Pacific and Africa region, as well as new product plans that may, ...

Ford Australia gets government bailout 3 years ago on Autoblog

The Australian government is taking a much softer line than our own administration it seems as Australian prime minister John Howard has just announced that his adminstration will be providing Ford Australia with a boost of $40.4 million (AU$52.5 million) to ensure that the automaker's AU ...






Autoblog Podcast #151: With Car and Driver's Eddie Alterman

Eddie Alterman wades in with Sam, Chris, Dan, and Jonny to talk about SEMA and other recent events.

 
 

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