GM’s first production car to offer an SS option was the ’61 Impala. Only 453 units were built with upgrades including a modified chassis and suspension, power brakes, steering column-mounted tachometer and...
Despite a robust April, the floods’ repercussions were reflected in year-to-date data, with passenger-car sales rising just 1.7% to 139,482 units. But commercial-vehicle deliveries jumped 33.9% to 225,955.
The academy will train technical staff at the sportscar maker’s production facility, and provide technical and sales training for the luxury marque’s global dealer network.
The Knowsley Safari Park baboons were chosen for the endurance demonstration because of their well-known love of tearing park visitors’ cars apart – most famously England soccer star Wayne Rooney’s...
The auto maker says its bottom line was hit by the payout to laid-off plant workers, continued decline in demand for the locally built Falcon large car and limited supply of the Ranger pickup due to floods in Thailand.
Ford halted operations last week and idled 1,800 workers at its Geelong and Broadmeadows factories in Victoria when it ran out of parts from CMI Industrial.