Finally a good news story for the Automotive Industry…
Toyota Australia’s Dealership Careers dials in to the Autopeople Job Network

Toyota Institute Australia this week welcomes the Autopeople job network to the suite of resources it currently makes available to its Dealer network.  This confirms their commitment to ensuring Toyota Australia’s Retail Dealerships have access to the [...]

The US Senate has failed to reach a deal on a controversial multi-billion-dollar bail-out for the beleaguered auto industry.
“I’m terribly disappointed that we are not able to arrive at a conclusion,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said late Thursday in Washington after politicians spent hours trying to hammer out a compromise over proposed federal loans [...]

This is the first of our three part series that looks at the art of high end prestige retailing through the eye’s of Australia’s leading retail personalities, the men that sell the most expensive cars on the road to Australia’s wealthy.
Introducing Melbourne’s “Mr. Bentley”, Bill Upfield
Having left school at the age of 14 with [...]

The Federal Government and the private sector are setting up a $2 billion trust to help car dealers struck by the credit crisis.
Car dealerships have been unable to access credit since the two major financiers, GE Money and GMAC, pulled out of Australia.
A financing trust will be established with the backing of the four major [...]

The big three American automakers on Tuesday unveiled plans to restructure and revamp their companies as they begged Congress for billions of US dollars in loans to save them from collapse.
Ahead of scheduled congressional hearings on Thursday and Friday, Ford, Chrysler and General Motors all put forward proposals to trim some fat and revitalize their [...]

Melbourne drivers Mark Eddy and Darren Hossack were among six national champions crowned at Sandown Raceway yesterday in the final round of the Shannons Nationals, while Allan Simonsen and Nick O’Halloran won the Sandown GT Classic.
Eddy claimed the Australian GT Championship and Hossack became just the third driver to win two national titles in a [...]

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 Bayford Group is the longest surviving family owned motor vehicle dealership in Australia. It began as a small Ford dealership located in Fitzroy in 1917. The founder of the firm, Dick Bayford, worked for the Ford Motor Company in America. When Dick returned to Melbourne he was intent on establishing his own business.
 
He viewed [...]

The community has been put on notice that if they undertake any risky driving behaviour, they will get caught in the biggest traffic enforcement operation ever undertaken in Victoria.
“If you undertake risky driving behavior like drink driving, drug driving or speeding, if you’re lucky - you will get caught, if you’re unlucky – someone will [...]