The McMillans, with their twin five-year-old sons Connor and Alexander, spent a year travelling through Tasmania and the Great Dividing Range of NSW, upgrading information for Brisbane-based mapping company Hema.
The first products of their extensive survey are the new south-east, central-east and north-east maps of NSW. New Tasmanian maps are next on the drawing board.
The [...]
Filed under: Aftermarket, Sedans/Saloons, Euro, BMW
Click above for a hi-res gallery of the new Hamann BMW 7 Series
The arrival of the new F01 BMW 7 Series means that aftermarket companies have a new toy upon which to apply their talents. Enter Hamann, the German tuner with a penchant for Lambo-dooring, among other things. Thankfully, the [...]
Filed under: Sedans/Saloons, Plants/Manufacturing, Subaru
Click above for a hi-res gallery of the 2010 Subaru Legacy
The 5th-generation Subaru Legacy has officially begun production, with the first car rolling off the Lafayette, Indiana assembly line late last week to confetti-strewn, ribbon-cutting fanfare. In keeping with Subaru’s recent new-model introductions, beginning with the current Impreza and continuing with [...]
Volkswagen is seriously considering importing the Golf Estate, a wagon based on the Golf hatch. It will join a diminishing small-wagon sector occupied now only by the Holden Astra and Viva, Hyundai i30, Peugeot 308 and Skoda Roomster.
Volkswagen Group Australia spokesman Karl Gehling says the Estate is definitely under consideration but it was “too early” [...]
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Earnings/Financials
To the roll call of auto industry titans that have gone or are going bankrupt — Visteon, Chrysler, GM, Saab, Karmann, ASC, Source Interlink — we can now add Tier 1 supplier Metaldyne, which filed for bankruptcy for its American operations. Metaldyne makes metal bits for car and truck chassis and NVH [...]
