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Commodore is not a failure in Aussie but it's uneconomic to manufacture in Australia for a world market or that is what GM want you to believe anyway.
I think sales stats wouldn't look so rosy if you were to compare the sales numbers on a world basis.
I think a big issue is that GM doesn't want a flagship V8 model in the US built anywhere other than the US. Re-badging a Holden as a Chev or Pontiac in the US was never going to work.
The US economy has been hurting for years and I think someone has seen the light that outsourcing products to the rest of the world doesn't work and hence the reason that they are starting to increase local (US) production in favour of importing. Just look at all the trouble Boeing has had with the 787 Dreamliner, the majority of issues have been with components that were outsourced around the world.
I think sales stats wouldn't look so rosy if you were to compare the sales numbers on a world basis.
I think a big issue is that GM doesn't want a flagship V8 model in the US built anywhere other than the US. Re-badging a Holden as a Chev or Pontiac in the US was never going to work.
The US economy has been hurting for years and I think someone has seen the light that outsourcing products to the rest of the world doesn't work and hence the reason that they are starting to increase local (US) production in favour of importing. Just look at all the trouble Boeing has had with the 787 Dreamliner, the majority of issues have been with components that were outsourced around the world.