I somehow missed the Toyota announcement. That is indeed a blow to Australian manufacturing.
MustangSix":9dg05geo said:I somehow missed the Toyota announcement. That is indeed a blow to Australian manufacturing.
MustangSix":3kffhg3a said:Good luck to you and to us......
Cool23":1g8litwk said:MustangSix":1g8litwk said:Good luck to you and to us......
What we are seeing is a global change in the way we do many things. In time we will see just how all these changes affect us all both in Australia and in the USA as well as in Europe and for that matter in Asia.
Cool23":5pmw98gc said:Ford have already told us we will not see a US based Pickup here as they can not make enough for the US market so what will replace the Aussie Ute ? Ford also tried to sell the Made in Brasil based F Series truck but the quality was not good enough for the roads here and they only lasted a very short time. When I say wait and see well I want to see if they can get it right as the F Series Import was a failure.
80broncoman":1qkcea4e said:Has anyone done a poll in OZ to see what the buying public wants to buy? I'd think gently used Fords have just shot up in value down under.
bubba22349":1qkcea4e said:X2 maybe also do a big Australia wide write in campaign to Ford several times that has worked well in the USA to get special models built. But the biggest one was to save the Mustang as a rear driver platform over replacing it with the Probe front driver. And the Probe did not last very long or sell all that well after the newnest wore off. I wished we could have gotten the Oz version of the late Falcons here and I think they would sell very well.
MustangSix":32c6zmsb said:The Monaro was rebadged for a time as the Pontiac G8 and the GTO. Actually, it took significant rework to make it fit the US requirements.
It's back this year as the Chevy SS.
http://www.chevrolet.com/ss-sports-sedan.html
Oddly enough, it looks like Chevrolet may built these in the US and sell them in Oz as the Holden Commodore.
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/12/19/chev ... n-america/
Cool23":1kh4qnl0 said:MustangSix":1kh4qnl0 said:The Monaro was rebadged for a time as the Pontiac G8 and the GTO. Actually, it took significant rework to make it fit the US requirements.
It's back this year as the Chevy SS.
http://www.chevrolet.com/ss-sports-sedan.html
Oddly enough, it looks like Chevrolet may built these in the US and sell them in Oz as the Holden Commodore.
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/12/19/chev ... n-america/
That is the marketing at work from GMH ( Holden) Why would those in the US want to buy an Imported Chevrolet ? Mind you I have seen the Export version here and it has more than the locally sold version.
bubba22349":1kh4qnl0 said:I can think of a couple of reasons they would import them, main one is since the Government took over part of General Motors and the Union has ended up with the other part. I use to be in the UAW many years ago when worked at Ford all I can say the Quality has really dropped on the GM stuff these last few years was like that at Chrysler too until they were bough out by Mercedes. I doubt it will be much longer before all the GM cars are built in China.
What does the VIN serial number start with? if its a 1,3, or 4 its made in north america.Cool23":bb6ix6cd said:Interesting comment as many here re-badge the Commodore as Chevrolet. Sign of the times I guess. I wonder if after Holden close if many will try to re-badge the Chevrolet as a Holden ?
Same goes here, as what you have as the Chevrolet Cruze is presently sold and badged here as a Holden Cruze but I am sure it is not built here.