Aug 30 2017 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet Just because we all love to look at an awesome car – what a stunner! … and because it is always good to look at Mercedes as an true innovator of technology and design. They launched the airbag, Piezo Injection, ESP, the first to deploy a lithium iron battery, and the first fatigue recogn...
Aug 30 2017 dealers Industry News, Product News / 0 Comment Castrol Tech Talk Our partners Castrol have kindly provided us with these great information sheets on Automatic transmission fluids, additives, fuel efficient engine oils and brake fluids. Check it out, download it, print it and share it with your technicians and mechanics! AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION FLUIDS – OIL’S...
May 28 2017 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment Truck of the future Australia relies heavily on road transport due to population density and it forms an essential element of the Australian economy. There are 599,990 trucks registered in Australia. The average age of Australian trucks is 13.92 years, which is by far older than other comparable developed nations. Neve...
May 26 2017 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment Volvo will stop with Diesel Volvo is the first manufacturer who just announced it will permanently stop developing Diesel engines. “From today’s perspective, we will not develop any more new generation diesel engines,” Volvo CEO Samuelsson stated in a German newspaper interview. What a big announcement by the Swedish manufactu...
May 02 2017 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment The future of car parts The connected, self-driving, electric car has been certainly all the taking point. Today let’s look a the future of spare parts. Imagine a world of instant spare car parts availability? No more shipping vehicle parts across the globe from Europe. Car manufacturers will be able to send a digit...
Apr 19 2017 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment Carmagaddon – Presentation Here is an interesting video with Dr Brett Dale and The Hon. Leeanne Enoch about the future of our industry. This presentation talks about how ‘Codies will be the new tradies’ and it should inspire business to be sustainable in the future. Definitely worth watching!
Apr 05 2017 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment Secrets of small business success Find out what separates successful small businesses from ones that aren’t. By author Cathryn Gross published on www.Financy.com.au “Everyone who’s anyone starting out in the entrepreneurial world wants to know the secrets of small business success. For me the answers dawned on me late la...
Apr 03 2017 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment Meet us at the AAAA Show 6-8 April The April 6-8 AAAA Show is just around the corner & AASDN is of course part of it! Hope you see you all there!
Mar 28 2017 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment Diesel Scandal in Australia The bad news for Diesel car-makers just don’t seem to end. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has initiated proceedings in the Federal Court against Volkswagen, Audi and Audi Australia over the diesel emissions scandal. Last week the Audi head office in Germany were raided in l...
Mar 23 2017 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment Diesel Car bans in some European cities Stuttgart – the home town of Mercedes Benz and Porsche has banned Diesel cars from entering the city. All diesel vehicles not meeting the Euro 6 Emission Norm will be banned by 2018. And some other European cities like Paris are likely to follow suit. This announcement has resulted in an immed...
Nov 28 2016 dealers Industry News, Product News / 0 Comment China about to introduce Autotmotive Electric Quota China is about to introduce an automotive electric quota of 8% of all vehicles by 2018. It sounds modest, but considering China is the largest car market in the world and major car producers are very worried, because 2018 is just around the corner. China is proposing a point system. Troubled car man...
Nov 25 2016 dealers Industry News, Product News / 0 Comment Water instead of gasoline? Water injection technologies We have reported a lot about electric cars – it’s time to talk about this petrol car technology from Bosch. Bosch has done some research around gasoline inefficiencies. At higher speeds engines use some petrol for cooling instead of propulsion. Bosch came up with a new way to reduce fue...
Oct 02 2016 dealers Industry News, Product News / 0 Comment Mercedes launches an electric SUV under new EQ brand Mercedes has launched it’s vision for the future of electric mobility with the new ‘Generation EQ’ branded all-wheel drive, all-electric SUV. A combination of Electrical and Intelligence – the Mercedes Benz ‘Generation EQ’ was presented at last weeks Paris Motor ...
Oct 02 2016 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment The Connected Workshop – Trends from Automechanika We reported a lot about ‘connected vehicles and autonomous driving’, but how will new technologies change your workshop? At this year’s Automechanika visitors could experience the ‘Connected workshop’. Automechanika in Frankfurt is the world’s largest showcase for...
Aug 11 2016 dealers Industry News, Product News / 0 Comment A new Hack can unlock 100 Million cars A new week, a new hack! A British and German research team from the University of Birmingham have uncovered another automotive security flaw. They were able to overcome the security of the radio function of car key remote controls and open and close vehicles from a distance. Affected are allegedly o...
Aug 11 2016 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment Why the world needs to be re-surveyed Australia is on the move! Not only from an ‘futuristic’ perspective, but literally! Apparently, the Australian continent is drifting north by 7cm a year. How is this relevant to the automotive industry? Driver-less cars and autonomous vehicles are around the corner and accuracy is absolu...
Jun 23 2016 dealers Industry News / 0 Comment The future of Volkswagen Volkswagen CEO Müller is questioning the future of the diesel at the AGM. In an interview he talked about an ‘epochal change’ for the industry. Electro-mobility is getting cheaper and the VW emission scandal is also still burdening the organisation hugely. He further states that he does ...
Jun 22 2016 dealers Industry News, Product News / 0 Comment The future of tires Self-driving car, sophisticated electronics and coding in vehicles, Tesla – all amazing innovations and technologies, but what about the good old tire? The tire has been black and round since they first pneumatic tires from Michelin hit the roads of France and England in 1895. More than 120 y...
May 05 2016 dealers Industry News, Sponsor News / 0 Comment Can you afford the cost of non-compliance? In 2012 the old Occupational Health and Safety Act was replaced with new legislation, the Work Health & Safety Act. The changes place a far larger onus on the owners, managers and responsible officers of a business to exercise due diligence and ensure compliance of the Act within the workplace. ...
Apr 26 2016 dealers Industry News, Product News / 0 Comment Tesla – the game changer? It’s here! With much hype, Tesla has unveiled its latest model – The Tesla Model 3. Well, actually, it is more of a prototype with the first delivery anticipated to be late 2017. None the less, Tesla has already received in excess of 200, 000 orders in just over 48 hours! The Tesl...