Do you get the feeling we’ve been had? Just months after Prime Minister Julia Gillard was telling us how $103 million in taxpayer hando…
Do you get the feeling we’ve been had? Just months after Prime Minister Julia Gillard was telling us how $103 million in taxpayer hando…
Ford Australia is cutting 440 jobs across its business mainly from its manufacturing divisions. The move comes as Ford seeks to reduce ov…
Car parts supplier CMI entered administration yesterday putting 250 jobs at risk while a further 1,800 Ford workers have been stood down unt…
If the Reserve Bank wanted yet another reason to slash rates next week, it received it yesterday when car parts maker CMI Industrial and tra…
Ford may stand down 1,800 employees at its two Victorian plants from Thursday after another car parts manufacturer comes close to collapse. …
Receivers were called in yesterday to take control of APV Automotive Components in Melbourne that supplies fuel fillers, rear suspension par…
We have heard the car industry once again lament that it cannot survive without subsidisation. This is despite more than $3 billion being pr…
I always felt like a bit of a fraud when I covered the automotive sector for BRW from about 2001 to 2004. I wasn’t a petrol head, I knew lit…
The future of the local car manufacturing industry has been boosted by a $103 million investment by Ford to complement $32 million in Govern…
The fall in the number of locally made cars sold in Australia is likely to make things difficult for component manufacturers, according to t…
The future of Australia’s automotive industry is in doubt, after the major manufacturers said the Government’s decision to scrap the Green C…
The news that Toyota Australia and Ford Australia are set to cut back their vehicle production is terrible news for the thousands of manufac…
