As of December the 1st 2008, the Business Licensing Authority of Victoria under the Motor Car Traders Act 1986, requires that all successfully employed personnel submit an LMCT Form 3 (see link) along with a police record check to employers in order to be eligible for employment in a customer service capacity. 
 
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Audi’s A2 small car was perhaps ahead of its time in some ways. It was exceptionally light, efficient to run and came with futuristic styling.
 
But its advanced construction and heavy use of aluminium made it expensive to build. That, combined with small car segment pricing constraints and low demand left it severely unprofitable, with Audi dropping the model altogether [...]

The Board of the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport has approved the establishment of the Australian Classic Tarmac Rally Championship for cars that date pre-1982. 

The championship recognises the growing status of tarmac rallying, involving classic cars, and its participants in Australia.

The success of tarmac rallies is highly dependent on classic cars and each event in the championship is endeavouring to [...]

Autopeople met with 23 year old Brighton Hyundai Sales Executive Kylie Mata. Kylie believes that the sky is the limit for both men and woman wanting to join the industry and tells us that she has not looked back since starting with the Jefferson Automotive Group two years ago. 
 
 
How did you get involved in the industry?
 
Basically I [...]

COMPLAINTS about the cost of staging two major Australian car shows a year have forced organisers to plan holding the Melbourne and Sydney events in alternate years.

The Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce, which has run Melbourne’s show for 76 years, has been forced to rethink the way it stages the event after car companies started [...]

In a bid to lure young workers to the transport and logistics industry, a new cadetship program is being launched in Victoria.
 
Transport and Distribution Training Victoria (TDT Victoria), in conjunction with the Victorian Transport Association, has been piloting the program designed to recruit exit Year 12 students and place them in employment with medium to [...]

Toyota has developed the world’s first airbag to protect rear passengers’ heads in the event of a rear end collision.
 
The company calls it the SRS (supplemental restraint system) rear window curtain shield airbag and it deploys from the roof lining above the rear window in the form of a curtainlike barrier.
 
Its use in the iQ [...]

BREAKING NEWS FORD will continue operating its Geelong engine plant, saving 1300 jobs – 400 at Ford and up to 900 among its suppliers.

 “$21 million will be invested in plant and equipment and further investment will go towards engineering the inline-6 engine to meet the stringent Euro IV environmental standard,” Federal Industry Minister Senator Kim [...]

The previous generation Mustang helped revive the nameplate when it arrived in 2004. And many critics, including myself, have wondered how the redesigned 2010 Mustang might fare. Would Ford use a deft hand to improve the iconic machine or somehow screw it up?
 
 Ford will officially unveil the new Mustang tonight in Santa Monica, Calif., on [...]

Last week’s announcement by the prime minister of the automotive manufacturing industry policy to go through to 2020 came at a critical time for the local car industry which has had a difficult few years with a strong exchange rate and rising fuel prices.
Naturally most of that policy is focussed on the car makers, [...]