November
26 November - Graeme Hill: new VACC President
The Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the election of Mr Graeme Hill as its new President...
26 November - The 'Spa-Car is the Star'
The ‘Spa-Car is the Star’ at the VACC Cars of the World ‘Cavalcade to the Vines’...
25 November - Independent service stations refute 'collusion' claim
VACC and its Service Station and Convenience Store Division (SSCSD) have refuted claims by Assistant Treasurer, Mr Chris Bowen, that the defeat of a national Fuelwatch scheme has “given the green light” to “collusion in the retail petrol market”...
24 November - Credit crisis: new car dealers call for leadership from Government
The Australian Automobile Dealer Association (Vic), the new car division of VACC, is calling on the Federal Government for decisive leadership, and action, to secure a solution to the dealer finance crisis..
21 November - FJ '90th Anniversary Ute' finds a good home
“This is for my workforce. They do all the hard work and make the business tick,” Banlay Managing Director, and VACC member, Darryl Dasler said...
17 November - VACC 'Cavalcade to the Vines - Fine Cars, Fine Wine & Fine Art
This weekend’s VACC Cars of the World ‘Cavalcade to the Vines’ will be all about the finer things in life...
17 November - VACC Historic Sandown 2008
The 2008 VACC Historic Sandown was a great success. A record entry of 367 vehicles took part in a 41 race program...
13 November - VACC welcomes end of national Fuelwatch Scheme
As a long standing opponent of a national Fuelwatch scheme, VACC is pleased the proposal has been rejected...
10 November - VACC supports Rudd Government's New Car Plan
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today unveiled a $6.2 billion initiative for the Australian automotive industry called ‘A New Car Plan for a Greener Future’...
7 November - New car dealers discuss financial crisis
The Australian Automobile Dealer Association (Vic), the new car division of the VACC, and new car dealers met today to discuss the financial crisis threatening the automotive industry...
October
30 October - VACC 2008 'Safe Routes' Scooter Rally: a show of support
From Vespas to Vectrix and Burgmans and Bolwells – they were all at the 2008 VACC ‘Safe Routes’ Scooter Rally...
23 October - VACC calls on Petrol Commissioner to stop pussy-footing around with the oil companies
The recently announced Petrol Commissioner, Mr Joe Dimasi, has confirmed that he has written to all the major oil companies asking them to explain themselves over the high petrol prices at the pump...
23 October - VACC Milestone OHS Assessment
VACC’s Occupational Health and Safety division has reached a significant milestone...
15 October - VACC 'Safe Routes' Scooter Rally - Share the Experience
Melbourne’s streets are about to be buzzing with the sight and sound of hundreds of scooters...
15 October - 2008 Scooter Rally Posters
Follow the above link to see the VACC 'Safe Routes' Scooter Rally and Community Safety Day posters..
10 October - VACC Apprentice wins top Australian Scholarship
“I always had plans to work overseas, to travel and enjoy different cultures. With the help of the Australian Overseas Foundation, this dream is becoming a reality”...
6 October - New Petrol Commissioner must forget Fuelwatch and tackle transparency
VACC, the peak automotive industry body in Victoria, is calling on the recently proposed new Petrol Commissioner to abandon the planned national Fuelwatch scheme...
2 October - VACC President's Dinner Speech
VACC President, Perce Makin has urged the Australian Automotive industry to use the challenge of the global economic crisis to “emerge stronger”...
September
25 September - LCT amendments make bad legislation worse
VACC, the peak automotive industry body in Victoria, is disappointed and critical of the Senate’s decision to vote through the increase in Luxury Car Tax (LCT)...
15 September - VACC 90th Anniversary
September 20th 2008 marks the 90th anniversary of the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC).
12 September - VACC urges Senators to reject LCT again
VACC is recommending that, having voted to defeat the Luxury Car Tax once, Senators should vote against the proposed increase again...
10 September - Time to take Scooters seriously
VACC, the peak automotive industry body in Victoria, is calling on Governments to take scooters seriously...
5 September - VACC supports new legislation to deter service station drive-off theft
VACC, the peak automotive industry body in Victoria, has fully endorsed new legislation which allows Victoria Police to issue on-the-spot fines for theft of petrol from service stations – ‘drive-off’ theft...
4 September - VACC welcomes Senate defeat of LCT increase
VACC, the peak automotive industry body in Victoria, has welcomed the Senate’s rejection of the proposed increase of the Luxury Car Tax (LCT) and its retrospective application...
August
28 August - Government car tax report disappointinly predictable
VACC, the peak automotive industry body in Victoria, has dismissed a Government report by the Senate Economics Committee on Luxury Car Tax (LCT) as disappointingly predictable and missing the point...
28 August - VACC challenges legality of Luxury Car Tax
VACC, the peak automotive industry body in Victoria, is challenging the legality of the Government’s retrospective application of the so-called “luxury car tax”...
22 August - Brabham racing line gets to grips with VACC Park
VACC Park has been given the Brabham seal of approval...
15 August - VACC sees Pros and Cons in Bracks' Review
VACC has broadly welcomed the Bracks’ review into the Australian Automotive industry...
14 August - VACC Cavalcade to the Vines
From vintage cars to vintage wine – the “VACC Cavalcade to the Vines” is set to be a corker...
8 August - VACC calls for councils to take action against 'backyarders'
VACC, the peak automotive industry body for Victoria, is calling on enforcement agencies to become proactive in the fight against backyard, unlicensed motor car traders...
4 August - Top Titles go to VACC Park
VACC Park is gearing up for the prestigious City of Melbourne Titles...
July
31 July - National Fuelwatch scheme should be scrapped following the resignation of Mr Pat Walker
VACC, the peak automotive industry body for Victoria, is calling on the Federal Government to scrap the proposed national Fuelwatch scheme following Mr Pat Walker’s announced resignation...
31 July - VACC Historic Sandown
VACC has become the naming rights sponsor for this year’s Historic Sandown...
29 July - Beware of buying a 'backyard repaired' write-off
VACC is aware of an increasing tendency by insurance companies to ‘cash settle’ and then ‘write-off’ motor vehicles after serious collisions that have caused structural damage, or damage to the complex systems now common in modern cars...
22 July - Students get a taste of life in the fast lane
Students with an interest in automotive design and engineering from Croydon’s Luther College recently toured two of their area’s most interesting automotive businesses as part of a vocational guidance program...
18 July - New website for Service Stations goes live
An initiative to make service stations in Australia a safer place to work has been launched...
17 July - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: small business urges caution
VACC, Victoria’s peak automotive industry body, said the devil may be in the detail in the Government’s intention to cut carbon emissions and urges caution...
4 July - VACC reaction to Garnaut Report
VACC calls on the Government to make sure there are no unintended consequences on small business in any carbon trading regime...
4 July - Explaining the increase in numbers of pre-pay service station
Motorists may now be noticing a recent increase in the number of pre-pay service stations, when they are purchasing fuel...
June
25 June - Luxury Car Tax: a ridiculous shambles
VACC has reacted angrily to the confusion created by the Government with its proposed Luxury Car Tax (LCT) increase...
25 June - VACC cautious welcome of new National Employment Standards
VACC has cautiously welcomed the release of the Ten Employment Standards which clarify aspects of the first draft of the Standards, released by the Federal Government in January 2008...
20 June - VACC urges the Senate to consider the future of the tax on 'luxury' cars
VACC has reiterated its position on the Luxury Car Tax (LCT)...
6 June - Holden job-losses regrettable, but engine production continues
VACC considers today’s confirmation that Holden plans to end production of four cylinder engines at its Melbourne operation, as regrettable but not necessarily a portent...
6 June - VACC disappointed with "unhelpful" comments by Productivity Commission
VACC is disappointed by comments by the Productivity Commission on the Bracks’ Review, calling them “unhelpful...”
2 June - High petrol prices fuel case for two-wheeled transport
Because of the increasingly high price of petrol, increasing numbers of motorists and commuters are shunning the car in favour of alternative modes of transport...
May
30 May - VACC blueprint to reduce petrol pain
The rampant rise in the cost of fuel affects all Australians, and yet, there seems to be little sign of any relief...
27 May - Cautionary comments on FuelWatch are welcomed by VACC
VACC welcomes the cautionary comments by the Minister for Resources and Energy, Mr Martin Ferguson, on the FuelWatch Scheme...
27 May - Axe the 'tax on the tax' on petrol
Since the introduction of the GST on 1 July 2000, VACC has repeatedly called for Government to drop the ‘tax on the tax’ – that part of the GST that sits on the excise component of the pump price of petrol...
20 May - Fuel retailers held over a barrel
Independent petrol station owners are bracing themselves for a backlash at the pump they do not deserve...
19 May - VACC Bracks Review Submission
Increase focus on LPG, training infrastructure, and R&D – VACC recommendations...
16 May - VACC pressure helps save LPG subsidy
VACC, and the LPG industry, are claiming “a victory for good sense” in the retention of the LPG subsidy...
13 May - Business holds watching brief on 'cautious' Budget
“This was the expected cautious Budget from Treasurer Wayne Swan that business and the community were expecting,” VACC Executive Director, David Purchase, said...
13 May - VACC warns an increase in Luxury Car Tax is ‘jumping the gun’ on the Bracks’ Review
VACC is opposed to an increase in the tax on luxury cars...
12 May - LPG - An Indigenous Resource for an Indigenous Industry
VACC is urging the Bracks’ review to seriously consider LPG as one answer to many of the long term manufacturing, economic and environmental questions currently facing the automotive industry...
6 May - Environmental and Economic reasons to save LPG subsidy
Promoting LPG use in Australia’s vehicle fleet has a clear benefit to the environment and to Australia’s balance of payments, Victoria’s peak automotive industry body, VACC, said today...
6 May - Business tax cuts welcomed by VACC
“Reduced payroll taxes, reduced land taxes, reduced WorkCover premiums and less red-tape, announced in the Victorian Budget are welcomed by VACC,” Executive Director David Purchase, said...
April
23 April - VACC urges CAV continue the fight against unlicensed motor car traders.
VACC welcomes the recent successful prosecution of an unlicensed Ballarat motor car trader...
16 April - FuelWatch a circus
Better for the ACCC tackle competiton at the wholesale level...
15 April - VACC advises Federal Government not to scrap the LPG subsidy.
VACC strongly recommends the Federal Government does not target the LPG conversion subsidy in the May Budget...
March
22 March - No excuse for weekly petrol price spike
VACC has rejected claims that the cause of petrol price spikes is a simple fact of weekly price cycles...
19 March - Rudolf Diesel deserves his place in history.
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rudolf Diesel – perhaps the single most important person in the history of motorised transport...
17 March - Easter driving - how safe is your car?
The combination of Easter roads filled with families driving late into the night in a hurry to get to holiday destinations, and often after rushed preparations and planning, can have tragic consequences...
14 March - VACC Historic Cavalcade wows Cowes
The VACC Cowes Cavalcade, marking the 80th anniversary of the original running of the Australian Grand Prix, has been heralded a great success...
13 March - Doors open for Target 2020 winners
This year’s VACC Target 2020 – Design the Future Car competition has uncovered rising stars of the automotive design industry...
7 March - Unlicensed motor vehicle traders
VACC calls on the Government to do more to rub out unlicensed motor vehicle traders...
February
27 February - Third and final winner announced in VACC $10,000 competition.
The third winner of trickmyride is...
25 February - Towies demand a change in the law
Victoria’s heavy duty towing operators claim that, sooner or later, traffic will be brought to a stand still and they will be powerless to help...
22 February - VACC Cowes Cavalcade
The year is 1928. Captain Arthur Waite wipes the dust from his goggles as he steers his Austin 7 into the final bend of the first Australian Grand Prix...
20 February - VACC 'Target 2020' Competions winners
Finalists in the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce’s (VACC) Target 2020 ‘Car of the Future’ Design Competition will be on display at the Melbourne International Motor Show (February 29 – March 10, 2008)...
19 February - VACC to monitor Bracks review
VACC will watch with interest the review of the Australian automotive industry to be conducted by Mr Steve Bracks...
18 February - VACC welcomes new Petrol Commissioner
VACC urges Mr Pat Walker to hit the ground running...
7 February - Two winners down in VACC $10,000 competion - one more to go!
The second trickmyride winner is...
5 February - Mitsubishi - a message on tariffs
The axe that has fallen on Mitsubishi Australia’s manufacturing operations in South Australia sends a powerful message to the Federal Government about tariffs...
5 February - VACC call to 'Australia 2020 Summit'
VACC has welcomed the announcement by the Labor Government to conduct an ‘Australia 2020 Summit’ on April 19 and 20...
January
16 January - One winner down in VACC $10,000 competition - two more to go!
The first trickmyride winner is...
9 January - 2008 marks VACC 90th anniversary
VACC was established in 1918...
3 January - VACC backs jail sentences for Cartel operators.
VACC is supporting the Federal Government’s call to imprison business people who collude with competitors to control prices...