23-05-2013, 10:25 AM
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Holden or Ford no longer
Ford has announced that manufacturing in Australia will cease. The Aussie Ford Falcon is to be no more.Toyota is fully integrated with its overseas parent. At times more than half of its Australian production is exported. When the dollar is low Toyota makes more cars in Australia, when it is high it makes more cars offshore.
Holden is nimble. Its parent, General Motors allows it to export. It sends rugged cars to South Africa, it makes police cars for the United States.
But Ford Australia has hardly ever sent anything offshore. Its most spectacular failure is the stuff of legend. With no experience of such things it won the contract to make the Ford Capri sports car for the United States in 1989. It leaked. Production stopped after just 67,000 cars and its foreign parent has looked askance at it ever since. All of Ford's factories worldwide use the same set of global car platforms. Except for Australia's. It's as if the foreign parent has been cutting it adrift.
The falling Aussie dollar wouldn't have saved it.
24-05-2013, 01:17 AM
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Re: Holden or Ford no longer
a new ford car will open in China and produce 250 000 per annum that says it all and now Holden is pleading with OZ govt for more handouts. Global markets allow us to seek the cheapest manufacturing and sales. OZ does not subscribe to protection tariffs on imports and we are at present the most expensive country in the world in manufacturing terms - we demand high wages and a high standard of living but cannot expect others to pay for it
11-06-2013, 04:17 AM
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Re: Holden or Ford no longer
Originally Posted by Pumicestone
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This newbie could not help but notice the wise and insightful contributions by Mindbender across the various threads.Just spotted his location !!!
Figures.
Do we have a facility for those Smiley thingies you get on some sites ?
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