cars stuff
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Nissan LEAF Arriving in 2012 With Affordable Price Tag
If you were at Westfield Bondi Junction anytime this week, you may have seen a sky blue car sitting in centre court, right next to Borders. That blue car? It’s called the LEAF, and it’s Nissan’s new zero emission, electric vehicle prototype that’s about to become a reality in Australia.
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Toyota Launches The Australian-Made Hybrid Camry
For the general populace, Australian-made cars come in two categories and two categories only: Ford or Holden. But the simple truth is that probably the most exciting Aussie car* to be released in the past decade comes from neither – it’s a Toyota, and it’s a hybrid. Yesterday the Japanese company officially launched their new…
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Infiltrating Toyota’s Tsutsumi Manufacturing Plant
Without meaning any disrespect to the workers at the Tsutsumi Manufacturing plant in Toyota City, watching them work as like watching the perfect ant farm. It’s rare to see such organisation in human activity. Although being that this is Japan (the Switzerland of the east perhaps) it wasn’t overly surprising.
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Internode’s Simon Hackett Driving His Tesla Roadster In The Global Green Challenge
Here’s an interesting bit of trivia for you – Internode ISP founder Simon Hackett bought himself Australia’s first Tesla Roadster, and this week he’s driving it from Darwin to Adelaide as part of the Global Green Challenge.