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If they made cars people wanted, there would have been no issue, I just bought an XR6 Falcon to have as a daily driver, so my comment is not biased, not many people want a big Aussie 6 or 8.
The cars that private consumers are buying are all made offshore now anyway, the unions and companies should stop whingeing, it's their **** up, the product has been wrong for 20 years.
Cheers
Will
Ive got a Turbo Territory Mick.Only driven it twice,no more than 200km.Probably a good thing as my D2 is strong enough,that thing is a licence destroyer.LOVERLY VEHICLE.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh
Andrew
And where was your land rover made?:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by richard4u2
Just saying!
We STRONGLY encouraged and HELPED our boy buy a BA XR6,his first car.We are 160km from the city where he attends university.GREAT open road car,very economical and cheap on parts.Strong vehicle if a collision with a roo or buz box occurs.Quote:
Originally Posted by MR LR
He has paid off what we put in already.
Andrew
Will, its still a furphy, who made the decision to continue to make the Falcon and not a Fiesta, you can bet that decision was made in Dearborn Michigan and not Geelong Victoria.Quote:
Originally Posted by MR LR
Max Yasuda CEO of Toyota, today said that to have economies of scale an automotive plant needs to make hundreds of thousands of cars a year and Australian plants come no where near that figure, add to that Toyota lost at least $2,500 on every Camry it exported to the Middle East. With less than 100K cars a year and input costs in Au at least twice as expensive as plants in Europe none of the Au manufacturers could survive. (BTW the Australian taxpayer subsidised every Toyota worker at $75,000 per year and Holden workers at $50K.)
The question remains, that if we want to compete with Thai or Chinese workers for wages and conditions then we can have car, washing machine or food processing plants.
Diana
Im pretty good at rubbing my crystal balls!!!!!!
When the dust settles I bet we still get a Dunnydoor and Falcoon,made in China or the Phillipines etc.Lets just see.
Andrew
The Territory I was driving was John's. He has friends from America who visit. ( He visits them as well.) When these Americans visit, he takes them around the place in his Territory. They comment on what a nice car it is and how well such a car would do over in the good ole US of A.
People always gotta eat. The rest is fluff.
I think yall missed it in the commode falcoon wrangling
(ps we own a veesix commode wagon just to put in some credentials)
If you dont eat you dont ****
If you dont **** you die
We need to get real and realise that the "emerging market" is not ID-gismoid-Irrific-upskilling-matrixification
BUT IT IS SUPPLYING THE # BILLION NORTHERNERS WITH FOOD
we have dirt
we have water
we should use it rather than **** our rocks away at 2 cents a giga-tonne
red-wine enhanced Steve matrix enabled over and out.
Though we won't be able to afford the products we manufacture, just like the Thai and Chinese workers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
With the new free trade agreement signed with Korea their goods enter Australia without paying one single cent in tariffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by LandyAndy
China in 2011/12 provided one billon dollars in subsides for the car industry upsetting USA government and on the top of that they keep their currency artificially low.
I cannot say any more, the rest is stuff for the Cantina :)