Toy­ota has ordered a halt to all TRD Aurion sales after a sin­gle fail­ure occurred with a con­rod and pis­ton part­ing company.

Toy­ota are inves­ti­gat­ing all TRD Auri­ons that have cur­rently been deliv­ered and in pro­duc­tion, and did not state when the sales halt would be lifted.

[Source: Carsales Net­work]

For those of you who haven’t yet seen it, here’s a CG pic­ture of the Aus­tralian model Sub­aru Impreza WRX.

It’s a lit­tle bit dif­fer­ent to what is expected over in the States and around the world with that grille, and I can’t say hurts, but doesn’t help either. How­ever I think Sub­aru will find most peo­ple pre­fer the old styling cues, the num­ber one com­plaint being the new WRX looks like a Mazda 3 (Per­haps, but a Mazda 3 won’t get up and boo­gie like a tur­bocharged 2.0 or 2.5L). My main quar­rel isn’t the front of the car, but the BMW 1 series like sides. It’s not a bar­gain base­ment BMW, it’s sup­posed to be a Japan­ese per­for­mance machine.

Sedan plus new styling please.

It looks like it’s that time again.

It’s the sev­enth year of MotorEx, an exhi­bi­tion of street machines, clas­sics, restored hot rods and up to 70 cus­tom bikes to the tune of $60 mil­lion (that’s in Aussie dol­lars). The event is held over a sin­gle week­end, start­ing on Sat­ur­day, June 30 and end­ing on the Sun­day, 1st of July.

The event includes a heated com­pe­ti­tion, Meguiar’s Super­stars, with cat­e­gories includ­ing the best Per­for­mance cars, best Fords and Hold­ens and best Hot ‘s.

Related:

http://www.motorex.com.au