meady_183
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I am genuinely upset at the fact that local manufacture is going down the drain. Australians make the best cars for Australian conditions, that is fact. These cars are designed, engineered and built here, by Australian people. (No one jump in with a smart comment about opel being the father of the commodore up until ve, because even though the platform was developed by opel, a lot of separate engineering work goes in to modify the base platform to suit us). FordAU's parent company in the us made the worst decision I believe it could have done when instead of making the focus locally, it developed the ecoboost. What a reckless decision that was. It didn't work for holden in 1982 during the oil crisis, and it doesn't work now. Australian vehicle manufacture employs 100's of thousands of people. Those who work in parts, assembly, service, sales, PR, design and engineering. The holden developed Zeta platform is whats under the Chevrolet Camaro, one of the best handling cars the us has ever made. and why? because it was Australians who developed it. Why is the new ford ranger the best in class? Because all its engineering work was done by ford Australia. We have talent in this country and its about time the world noticed.
All this talk of ending the commodore line after falcon shouldn't scare us too much however as it has all happened before. Sales of the kingswood started to dip, so holden started manufacturing a smaller car, and ended the H-body line. Commodore sales are starting to dip now, so holden builds the cruze in order to offset those losses in sales.
Australians need to start buying Australian cars. Never before has there been better value Australian cars, that are leaders of their respective classes. Never before has there been a better time to buy Australian made.
Support the Australian Economy, buy us a future, AND BUY AUSTRALIAN!
\end rant, cheers guys
All this talk of ending the commodore line after falcon shouldn't scare us too much however as it has all happened before. Sales of the kingswood started to dip, so holden started manufacturing a smaller car, and ended the H-body line. Commodore sales are starting to dip now, so holden builds the cruze in order to offset those losses in sales.
Australians need to start buying Australian cars. Never before has there been better value Australian cars, that are leaders of their respective classes. Never before has there been a better time to buy Australian made.
Support the Australian Economy, buy us a future, AND BUY AUSTRALIAN!
\end rant, cheers guys