Articles by Jon Thomson

A significant rise in European badged, Indian built trucks and buses is re-fuelling the ongoing speculation that Daimler turn India to complement its Australian line up in the future. Truck and Bus News first broke […]

Just as night follows day, recent upgrades to Isuzu Ute’s D-Max one tonne ute flow through to the 2017, seven seat MU-X SUV in `twobie’ and `fourbie’ variants and three grades LS-M, LS-U and LS-T. […]

Chinese van maker LDV has set the benchmark in automatic pricing between now and the end of the financial year by making its one tonne G10 diesel with a six-speed transmission the same price as […]

Renault has turned the wick up on its mid-sized van offering, the Trafic, with a 29 per cent more powerful engine in the entry-level model. The new engine puts out 85kW at 3500rpm instead of […]

Long time executive director of Bus NSW Darryl Mellish has announced that he will retire from the role on 31 July handing over to current Bus NSW Industry Development manager, Matt Threlkeld Mellish has been […]

Volvo Bus has unveiled its new B8 bus chassis and revealed it will offer both a Euro 5 and a Euro 6 version of the new bus which is set to replace the marque’s current […]

Great Wall Motors has copped a beating from independent vehicle safety advocate ANCAP following the release of crash test data of its low-price Steed ute. The Steed scored one of the lowest ever scores for […]

Freightliner has revealed it is bringing a rare 1950 model A64-800 ‘Bubblenose’ to Australia as part of its 75th anniversary celebrations. The Bubblenose will be on show at this month’s Brisbane Truck Show alongside the […]