vztrt
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Hardly a surprise that they have dropped 600 workers. What makes me angry is that the unions are trying to blame the federal government for this, saying that because they have reduced tarriffs on imported cars its affecting Australian built cars. What a load of crap! Its plain and simple, Australians aren't buying as many large cars these days because of petrol prices, etc... Smaller cars have become more popular as a result!
It's not Australian built cars it's Commodores and Falcons in general, people have a choice between an import car that is more reliable, better build quality, better fuel economy and more features for not much more than a car built in our back yard. Also Australian built cars arnt that highly regarded as they use to be.
The tariffs did do alot to keeps the cost of import cars higher. Every other car producing nation has import tariffs yet were lowering ours and killing the industry.