Day: January 2, 2024

Car values increasing along with demand for used vehicles & average years on the road

NEW YORK — Consumers often hear a car loses its value once you drive it off the lot, but that may not be the case anymore.  The automotive research firm Black Book found cars

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Car insurance price chaos to continue with drivers warned to not ‘expect a change’

Drivers are likely to deal with car insurance pain into the new year after one expert said the likelihood of Government action to help motorists was highly unlikely. Car insurance prices have jumped

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Safety ratings revoked for popular new cars

When the clock struck midnight on December 31, 2023, there was an air of celebration… except for car-brands like Toyota, Volkswagen and Mazda. That’s because when January 1, 2024 rolled around, vehicles like

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Ashok Leylands Dispatches Fall As Truck Sales Decline

Indian automakers are announcing their December sales figures on Monday. Auto dispatches to dealerships suggest that passenger vehicle sales further slowed down in December due to weakening momentum post festive season, while two-wheeler

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Australia’s Eagers Automotive finds unauthorised access to parts of IT systems, ETCIO SEA

Australia’s Eagers Automotive (APE.AX) on Tuesday said an investigation found that a cyber incident last week that resulted in an outage involved unauthorised access to parts of the company’s information technology (IT) systems

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Tesla lashes Reuters for ‘wildly misleading’ story on warranty repairs | The Canberra Times

“Tesla has not determined that a defect exists in either the front suspension aft link or the rear suspension upper link and believes the root cause of the issue is driver abuse, including

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The car Aussies should be buying – news.com.au

This is the first Everest Wildtrak The Everest has featured in Ford showrooms since 2015, when it arrived as the wagon-bodied cousin to the smash-hit Ranger ute. The Blue Oval bravely resisted the

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Adelaide man loses hand in freak NYE towing incident

A man trying to tie a rope between two cars at Largs North has had his hand completely severed. The Largs North man was trying to tow a car on Lady Gowrie Drive

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Australia’s Eagers Automotive finds unauthorized access to parts of IT systems

(Reuters) – Australia’s Eagers Automotive on Tuesday said an investigation found that a cyber incident last week that resulted in an outage involved unauthorized access to parts of the company’s information technology (IT)

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Rideshare slams into car on quiet Gold Coast street

Residents of a sleepy Biggera Waters street say they were woken with a start when they witnessed a suspected vehicle hit and run. See the video. Rideshare slams into parked car. It is

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