Struggling US motoring giant General Motors (GM) has axed the Australian-made Pontiac G8 ST sports truck, a vehicle based on the popular Holden ute.

STRUGGLING US motoring giant General Motors (GM) has axed the Australian-made Pontiac G8 ST sports truck, a vehicle based on the popular Holden ute.

"We’ve waited for a new Lotus for 15 years and they didn’t disappoint." It has been a rollercoaster year, from the dizzy highs of the London motor show (half a dozen major world debuts! In the UK!) to the worrying slump of recent weeks. Here’s a quick review of my motoring year.

HARROGATE, United Kingdom – January 5, 2008: A car that parks itself and wakes you up if you nod off at the wheel may once have been the stuff of dreams for car buyers but, according to motoring website motors.co.uk, they will be top of the list for discerning car buyers in 2009.

The Nikkei continued its winning streak Wednesday, with exporters such as Honda motoring higher, helped by a weaker yen and hopes that President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan will kick-start the US economy.

Tough economic times are keeping a company that got its start in Janesville more than 35 years ago motoring along.

A motoring body is calling for the cars of repeat drink drivers to be confiscated to prevent repeat offending.

A chicken-or-egg question about the early universe has been answered by astronomers who say black holes came before galaxies. A motoring organisation yesterday called for the cars of repeat drink-drivers to be confiscated.