Dunlop An Olympian
Newcastle Herald
Saturday October 31, 1998
DUNLOP Tyres has joined the Australian Olympic team, coming aboard as an official Games supporter.
The company is planning a `highly visible' promotion campaign giving it significant brand and product exposure.
HOW much does the Commonwealth Government take in excise from a litre of fuel?
According to the Australian Automobile Association's 1998 annual report, the Feds make 45.24? from every litre of leaded petrol sold, 43.05? from a litre of unleaded and a similar amount from each litre of diesel fuel sold.
In the 1996-97 financial year that meant a return to the Government of almost $2.33billion from leaded fuel sales and nearly $4.05billion from unleaded.
VOLVO has dropped the 2.5 litre, five-cylinder, 10-valve engine from its 70-series model lineup.
The entry-level engine is now the upgraded 20-valve engine.
Also new for the 1999 model year is the use of an optional adaptive shift automatic transmission across the 70-series range.
THE average estimated age of vehicles in NSW is 9.6 years.
Northern Territorians drive the `youngest' vehicles with an estimated average age of 9.4 years.
South Australians like to hang onto their cars the longest. The average age there is 11.8 years.
AUSTRALIANS love to drive, according to the NRMA.
A study by the motoring organisation shows Australians take almost 50 million domestic trips a year, collecting more than 2.2 million holiday guides and 2.7 million maps.
© 1998 Newcastle Herald
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