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Bob51
15th Feb 2021
Badge engineering was born well before 1980. BMC were masters of it in the 1960s with Austin, Morris, Wolseley, Riley and MG versions of the Farina sedan and later 1100. In Australia we had the Morris Major and Austin Lancer twins and Morris Marshall version of the Austin A95. At the time there were separate Austin and Morris dealer networks and badge engineering was used to create clones for each.
Strada Veloce
13th Feb 2021
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn t the Ford Laser a thinly disguised Mazda 323? That would have to be a success story.
Kez Casey
A car covered in five cent coins cruising around Brisbane s inner-city suburbs has left onlookers scratching their heads in amazement. After being shared on social media over the past few months, residents have pieced together who the mystery vehicle belongs to - a comedy duo famous for pranking.
YouTube duo Marty and Michael - made up of Martin Sokolinski and Michael Broekhuyse - took to their channel in December, gluing $2,000 in five cent coins to their car in order to increase its value . Marty and Michael s bedazzled Holden Astra is being shared far and wide online. Pic: Facebook The video shows the pranksters approaching car dealers and trying to sell Michael s Holden Astra - which was deemed to be worth less than $500.
Saturday 30th January, 2021
A 2017 HSV GTSR W1 Maloo like the one that just went under the hammer with Lloyds. Image: WhichCar
They say “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” – particularly when it comes to the Australian used car market.
In the same way that vintage comics regularly fetch higher prices than medieval textbooks and sun-damaged vintage Rolexes can be worth more than immaculate ones, grotty ‘bogan’ cars are becoming the hottest commodities for Australian car collectors. Forget European luxury or JDM tech wizardry – after years of being ignored, the next big thing in car investment is your suburban Aussie station wagons, fast sedan-based utes and bogan block beaters. A bogan car renaissance, if you will.