Tag: Ford

Unique Ford Falcon Found Under Brisbane House Sells For $230,000

The 1970 Ford sold at auction for $230,00, with auctioneer Rian Gaffy saying, “It’s a unique car, but needs full restoration, so I think that’s a fair price.” Hmmm, really? For that price,

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Ford Falcon sells for staggering price

This dust-coated 1970 Ford Falcon GT sat under a Queensland home for nearly 50 years, but that didn’t stop a frantic auction to own it. Australians can buy a slice of local motoring

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Barn find: Ford XY Falcon GT found covered in dust under Brisbane house sells at auction for $230,000

With no reserve and more than 400 bids, a “one-of-one” 1970 Ford found covered in dust under a Brisbane house has sold at auction. The buyer has forked out $230,000 for the XY

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Ford Australia begins F-150 deliveries

FORD AUSTRALIA has kicked off customer deliveries of its newly introduced F-150 this week, marking the milestone with a tour of the 21,000 square-metre RMA Automotive conversion centre for “select owners”.   The

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Australian Ford F-150 pick-up deliveries begin, close sales race predicted

Four months after the first shipment of Ford F-150 arrived in Australia, local customers are now receiving their right-hand-drive pick-ups. View 5 images The first locally-converted right-hand-drive examples of the Ford F-150 have been

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Cars that have changed their name

Some of the most popular cars bought by Aussies have changed their model names throughout their lifetime, so if you’re trying to purchase a pre-owned Nissan Qashqai or Ford Escape, you may discover

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Automotive industry is alive and thriving in Australia

The death of the Australian automotive industry may have been at least slightly exaggerated. Either that or it’s having an unexpected zombie resurgence, with more people currently working in car manufacturing in Victoria

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Holden who? Aussie automotive manufacturing now AS BIG as the final days of Commodore and Falcon as Toyota Tundra, Ford F-150, RAM 1500, Chevrolet Silverado and Nissan Patrol spark massive local auto boom – Car News

Australian automotive manufacturing could now employ more people than worked at Ford’s Broadmeadows and Geelong factories and Holden’s Elizabeth factory combined when local manufacturing officially ended in Australia in 2016 and 2017. The

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EV sales slowing, leaving an EV pile up on car lots. Here’s why.

Electric vehicles (EV) are piling up on car lots across the country as the green revolution hits a speed bump, data show.   EV inventories have increased by 506% from a year ago,

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Young women take brunt of car insurance premium increases

Christel Yardley/Waikato Times It costs more to insure a car than it used to. Car insurance premiums have increased by up to 38% since 2021, Consumer NZ says, and young women have been

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