Few factors which i reckon the journalist didnt state on nor did Holden boss elaborate on things.
Its a Chev engine right?
Wrong
So why ship the engine to australia then the car back to USA? Wouldnt it make sense to keep the engine in USA, ship the car shell and install it there using one of their production lines or something?
Besides being stupidly expensive and impractical (ever tried pushing 300 or so cars at a go onto a car transporter ship??), every car that leaves the Holden plant (or any other for that matter) has to be a finished vehicle.
Maybe thats a costings factor, eg shipping, weight, reshipping, weight
Alot of parts as GM based right, so they be able to get things cheaper anyway.
??? You have completely no idea of how the auto industry works do you???
There are several reasons why cars in NA are cheaper than here. Some is based on higher/different taxes and charges, some regulatory and also market forces.
IN the real world all the consumer's would boycott buying the VF, television shows would broadcast the great rip off. The ACCC would jump in a put holden out off business...
Lolwut??? Since when has it been the ACCC's role to set prices??? Further to that, go check out what comparable Toyotas, Fords, Mitsubishis, Hyundais, BMW's, Mercedes, Porsches and any other manufacturers sell for in NA compared to here. Case in point - BMW M5 sells on the road for near $250,000 in Australia. In USA it's just over $90,000. You are bitching about a 20% premium Holden charges in Aus (10% is explained by the GST straight away) when other manufacturers are 2.5 times that???
BUT IN fairness we are such week barstards THAT we will take it up the Ar-E .. YOU will all jump up and down about the $$,
The AUS$ is higher than US$. That makes Aus exports to NA more expensive, not cheaper. I think you have your thinking back to front.
but the weak australian will stop crying and buy their product.. IF we had any balls the vf would sit in holden's yard till they stopped ripping (taking the piss)out off us aussies.. THE stupid goverment would also step in and sort the issue's out... WE ALL KNOW THE YANKS THINK WE AUSSIES ARE STUPID, now we will prove by buying their overpriced product and smile..
And the Australian car industry along with hundreds of thousands of direct and in-direct jobs will all disappear. Yet you appear to be entirely fine with buying over priced imports :bang:. ITS NOT ONLY THE YANKS THAT THINK YOU ARE STUPID!
i thought this discussion would have been more vocal.. LOOKS like we aussies are going too take the ripping off us, and LOVE it....WHATS got me intreeged is my vz dosent suffer from crap timming chains, but the ve does??? AND i work for a auto part supplier too gmh, they want a cheap product, not a great one, so it looks like the vf is going too have more issues than the ve,
HEC changed the timing chain supplier (& spec??) between the VZ and VE models. The later VE SIDI cars don't have the same timing issues AFAIK. That said, why risk it, buy a LS3
To add insult to injury, it's been confirmed that we will still get the 6.0 V8, whereas the Chev will be a 6.2 V8.
So we pay $10K more and get less power and torque.
Holden forced to confirm 6.0-litre V8 for VF Commodore |#CarAdvice
I'd expect a change not too far down the track. The timing of the VF is a little bit out compared to when the new generation motors are rolled out in 2014.
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