Car of the Year was the Disaster of the Decade
In 1982 Wheels magazine bestowed its illustrious Car of the Year award to the Holden Camira. It was dead wrong, wrote Tony Davis in 1997.
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In 1982 Wheels magazine bestowed its illustrious Car of the Year award to the Holden Camira. It was dead wrong, wrote Tony Davis in 1997.
An emotional apology and vow 'not to waste my life' by Kallista Mutten, the mother of allegedly murdered nine-year-old schoolgirl Charlise, over the car accident that killed a friend has come to light.
Charlise Mutten, 9, was last seen by her mother on Thursday, with murder detectives now leading the investigation - while search teams refuse to give up hope of finding her in the Blue Mountains bush.
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