• The Button car plan, also known as the Button plan, was the informal name given to the Motor Industry Development Plan, a Hawke government initiative intended...
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    the Button car plan, which involved downsizing and eventually ending Australia's car industry by reducing tariffs and government protection. Button was...
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    Ford Maverick (category Set index articles on cars)
    compact car sold in North America and Brazil during the 1970s The rebadged Nissan Patrol Y60 sold by Ford Australia under the Button car plan from 1988...
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    Holden Apollo (category Set index articles on cars)
    both automakers from August 1989. UAAI was in turn a result of the Button car plan, which aimed to make the Australian motor business more efficient and...
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    Grands Prix across 18 seasons. Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula...
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    Holden Nova (category Cars introduced in 1989)
    car which was manufactured by Toyota Australia as a badge engineered Toyota Corolla between August 1989 and 1996. It was a result of the Button car plan...
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    Holden Astra (category Cars introduced in 1984)
    and was a derivative of the locally produced Nissan Pulsar. With the Button car plan coming into effect, it was replaced by the Holden Nova, a rebadged...
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    Toyota Crown (category Cars introduced in 1955)
    late 1980s using many local components. It was discontinued when the button car plan was put into effect.[citation needed] Exports to New Zealand began...
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    Toyota Camry (XV10) (category Mid-size cars)
    to the Middle East. As a result of the Australian Government-backed Button car plan, both four- and six-cylinder sedan and station wagon version of the...
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    Toyota Camry (category Euro NCAP executive cars)
    other minor trim items. This rebranding scheme was the result of the Button car plan, introduced in May 1984 to rationalise and make the Australian automotive...
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    regions and markets. In Australia, during the 1980s and 1990s, the Button car plan required imported Nissans and Toyotas to adopt Ford and Holden (GM)...
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    Ford Falcon (XF) (category Cars of Australia)
    scheme known as the Button car plan. In an attempt to rationalise the Australian automotive industry, the Button plan induced car manufacturers to share...
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    Nissan Pulsar (category Cars introduced in 1978)
    engineered twin, the Holden Astra (LB)—a scheme devised under the Button car plan. To differentiate the Pulsar, Nissan Australia applied the upmarket...
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    Nissan Pintara (category Cars of Australia)
    assembly of the next generation Bluebird from Japanese kits. Under the Button car plan, in which local manufacturers shared models, Ford Australia marketed...
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    Holden Camira (category Cars introduced in 1982)
    a result of the Button car plan introduced by the Australian Government, which encouraged a reduction in the number of Australian car-makers and models...
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  • United Australian Automobile Industries (category Car manufacturers of Australia)
    the Button car plan, the work of Senator John Button, the Minister for Industry under the then current Bob Hawke led Labor government. The plan envisaged...
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    badges differentiating them such as what happened under the failed Button car plan in Australia during the 1980s. Not every vehicle that appears to be...
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    Holden Commodore (VN) (category Cars of Australia)
    and vibration levels of the V6 engine. Under the Hawke government's Button car plan, which saw a reduction in the number of models manufactured locally...
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  • Holden (redirect from Holden cars)
    with the Button car plan, which encouraged car makers to focus on producing fewer models at higher, more economical volumes, and to export cars. The decade...
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    portal Manufacturing in Australia Button car plan Automotive industry in New Zealand Deindustrialization "World car production grows 3 times faster than...
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  • Toyota Australia (category Car manufacturers of Australia)
    formed United Australian Automobile Industries in response to the Button car plan. This resulted in Toyota Australia building Holden Apollo and Holden...
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  • General Motors New Zealand (category Car manufacturers of New Zealand)
    Retrieved 10 December 2019. "Australias car industry demise started with the Button Labor plan". "Daewoo Kalos 2003 car review". www.aa.co.nz. Archived from...
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    Push-to-pass (redirect from Overtake button)
    mechanism on a race car which provides the driver with the ability to increase the car's power for short periods, usually via a button on the steering wheel...
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  • and Federal Industry Minister John Button from the early 1980s and was regarded as the architect of the Button car plan, which freed up automotive trade...
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    measure to mitigate an emergency situation. A red button integral to key fobs which activates a car alarm's siren. A device given to elderly individuals...
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    Brawn BGP 001 (category 2009 Formula One season cars)
    putting the first two races under appeal meaning the cars' first two wins of the season with Button could have been removed. After discussing the legality...
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    Waymo (redirect from Google car)
    Waymo LLC, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View...
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    architect in the 1980s of the widely admired Button Car Plan – a plan for the transition of Australia's car industry to a regime of lower tariffs and higher...
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    McLaren MP4-31 (category 2016 Formula One season cars)
    with the car. At the newly introduced Baku City Circuit, the cars showed good pace in the first free practice sessions but Alonso and Button qualified...
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  • team but Mercedes-Benz engines were the ones that best fitted the car. Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, who had respectively been Honda's drivers...
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