Inchcape, the local company responsible for importing and selling Citroens announced the move last week after a period of very slow sales for the French marque. With just 87 sales nationally in the first half of this year dealers have been offering discounts of up to $30,000 on certain models.

The Royal Automobile Club of Australia, the country’s oldest motoring club, congratulates Oscar Piastri in winning last Sundays Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest, in doing so to become the fifth Australian to win a Grand Prix.

With most families already feeling cost of living pressures the biannual indexation of fuel is a big hit to the weekly family budget, most consumers already facing a price pinch at the bowser.

The 1955 Cooper Bristol T40 was the first F1 car Brabham raced and was the first rear engine car to compete in the world championship. Brabham campaigned the car in the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree, qualifying last on the grid, some 27 seconds slower than pole-sitter Stirling Moss.

With the new vehicle market going through enormous change as it heads to a zero-emission target and with many motorists still uncertain as to whether to replace their petrol model with an electric or hydrogen model many motorists are delaying upgrading to a newer model.