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John Mellor’s GoAuto News SUBSCRIBE FREE: www.GoAutoMedia.com May 18, 2011 Page 22 GoAuto’s latest car review www.GoAuto.com.au CARBON TAX COSTS Tony Abbott A CARBON tax could add between $222 and $412 to the cost of each car made in Australia if the carbon price is set at between $20 and $30 a tonne, according to a report prepared on behalf of the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI). The investigation, by Pricewaterhouse- Coopers Australia (PWCA), found that the overall cost to the $6.2 billion domestic automotive industry was likely to be between $30 million and $84 million, depending on factors including compensation. The report warned that additional cost burdens could threaten plans for growth in the automotive industry, which it described as “vulnerable”. The opposition leader Tony Abbott used the fi gures during a visit to Ford’s factory at Geelong in Victoria yesterday to raise the spectre of lost jobs in the motor industry due to Labor’s carbon tax. “If the carbon tax turns out to be the nail in the coffi n of the motor manufacturing industry in this country, that spells disaster for Australia as a fi rst-world economy,” he said. “We want to be a country that makes things, and the risk with this carbon tax is that we will stop being a country that makes things any Audi A1 1.4 TFSI 3-dr hatch SMALL Audis may be new to Oz, but in the time of Gough Whitlam and Alvin Purple, Europeans could choose a small three-door hatch from the four-ringed marque known as the Audi 50 – and even begat the Polo that eventually usurped it. Nearly 40 years later we have the all-new A1, co-developed with VW to open up the brand to a growing legion of younger (and young-at-heart) premium spenders. But is the A1 just that – a Polo in exxy couture, or do the Mini, Alfa MiTo, Citroen DS3 DSport and Renault Clio RS 200 have something to worry about? FULL STORY: CLICK HERE Launch Pad May: Bentley Continental GT McLaren MP4-12C Mercedes-Benz C-class Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion Volkswagen Eos Australia’s No.1 because it works! Mercedes-Benz C-class VW GGolf BlueMotion New model diary: CLICK HERE CHINESE car sales have fallen for the fi rst time in 28 months, while India’s motor industry reported its slowest monthly growth in two years. China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) data shows 1.55 million cars were sold in China last month, 0.25 per cent down year-on-year and 15 per cent lower than March. A contributing factor – other than that China’s once-rampant economic growth has been slowing since the middle of last year – is that its government is introducing measures to curb the unfettered growth in vehicle volumes to a more sustainable level to ease pressure on parking, road congestion and air pollution. FULL STORY: CLICK HERE GOAUTO’S MONTHLY CAR MAGAZINE OUT NOW DOWNLOAD FOR FREE: CLICK HERE New, used or demo - it works. Call us on 1300 728 800 or email dealer@carsales.com.au more – an absolute disaster for Australia.” The federal government is set to spell out the details of its carbon tax plan by July, with the scheme set to be introduced on July 1, 2012. The PWCA report said each domestically made vehicle would have a CO2 footprint of between 11.1 tonnes and 13.6 tonnes. The largest proportion – between 6.0 and 7.8 tonnes – would be embodied in the manufacturing of materials such as steel, aluminium and plastics. Parts manufacturing would generate between 2.6 and 3.5 tonnes and vehicle assembly 1.5 tonnes, while small amounts would be contributed by air-conditioning gases, the retailing of the vehicle and transportation. The report said the extent of greenhouse gas emissions depended on factors such as the size of the vehicle, extent of local content, vehicle confi guration and energy supply mix. Of the materials used in the typical vehicle, steel was by far the biggest contributor of greenhouse gases, at 67 per cent, followed by aluminium on 26 per cent. Plastics rated only two per cent. FULL STORY: CLICK HERE CHINA, INDIA CAR SALES
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