General Motors is revaluating its operations in Africa and India as part of a global restructure. The company will stop making Chevrolet vehicles, including the Spark and Utility, at its South African plant in Port Elizabeth, Caradvice.com.au reports.
The industry there is worth AU$19.4 billion a year but, with relatively modest car sales, two-thirds of the production is focused on aftermarket parts, electronics and components – around 70% of them for export. Want your parts department to check out those replacement headlights?
Volvo is ramping up its efforts to reduce nitrous oxide emissions by deciding to not develop any new diesel car engines. Chief executive Hakan Samuelsson told Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview that it would keep developing current diesel-powered models introduced in 2013.
A Filipino car dealer who lived in Australia under a false name for 20 years has been sentenced to a lengthy jail term in southern California Eminiano Jun Reodica received ten years in prison and was ordered to pay $30 million in restitution after being found guilty of defrauding banks of $64 million in the 1980s, abs-cbn.com reports.
The future of white-collar Ford employees in New Zealand and Australia remains unclear after the company embarked on a cost-cutting exercise in North America and Asia Pacific.
The new ‘on trend’ term is customer nurturing - where the focus is on the complete life cycle of customers, managing them through the times where they are ‘out of market’ through to the times where they are ‘in market’ and ready to purchase.
Traffic was temporarily halted on Hampton Road in south Fremantle as more than 150 protesters sought to stem transport deaths. This year, almost 40% of all workplace deaths involved transport workers, with 22 transport worker deaths out of a total 57 workplace deaths, the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) says.
Technology that features in Ford’s GT supercar will soon make its way into the company’s more mainstream products. For example, all-digital dashboard technology, similar to that in the supercar’s, is available in the 2018 Mustang.
A book by the New York Times’ European correspondent has cast new light on the VW diesel-gate scandal.
Kiwi rich-lister Neville Crichton, 71, based in Sydney, wed Nadi Hasandedic, 38, at the University of Sydney's historic Great Hall on Sunday. Last year's NBR Rich List put Crichton's fortune at $130 million after he made a considerable amount dealing in luxury cars.