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FPRJET
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Awesome We have excellent products and people are starting to see the light.
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Finally we are on the up!
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Barra Turbo > V8
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Good to see. The buyers have spoken
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Great effort ford au
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Really great to see. Lets hope the result is backed up next month.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Holden would have to be worried that their grand plan of fobbing all the redundant Us Pontiac panels onto the Aussie cars hasn't paid off.
They still can't seem to give them away,I know of a couple of people that actually paid a little extra for an 09 model SS so they didn't have to have, that ugly front end ( their exact words). |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Bat Cave
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When I was asked by a Calais v buyer what my better performing and better all round G6E t cost he nearly fell over 15k less than that fool was prepared to pay to Holden. LOL
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Enjoy it untill the Cruze is built here i guess :-)
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Walking with God
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Great to see indeed!
Agree with the comment about the Cruze. If that's build here, then there goes #1 manufacturer in a flash. I also liked the comment/request at the end of the article for interest rates to stay put! Here's hoping! GK
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2010
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It looks like Broadmeadows is on track for about 60,000 vehicles this year,
that's a good lift after last year's depressing number (53,000). |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Someone on here suggested that the first Cruze has gone down the line. Wether that is correct, only time will tell, unless someone can confirm one way or the other.
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BRYAN LITTLELY From: The Advertiser May 14, 2010 12:01am http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/s...-1225866312190 |
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Nice work
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Force Fed Fords
Join Date: Aug 2005
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With Holdens fortunes at the moment (or lack thereof), it may still be quite a way off if it happens at all. Facts are, you cannot build a cheapish mid 20's car in Australia to compete with global content, as we are too expensive labour wise. That there are people in China willing to produce the car for a pittance of what we pay our workers; doesn't bode well for GMH finding investors to front the capital for a project which has marginal at best stamped all over it. The only way I can see it happening is if it comes in like the Ford Laser did years ago at Homebush - CKD from Korea. BTW, well done Ford on a brilliant job clawing back to the top.
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Labour is only a small portion of an overall cars build costs, its the economies of scale which makes or breaks viability. You can get European and Japanese cars in Australia for about 16 grand, and they have much higher wage costs than Australia. I have feeling the Cruze is more about making local production viable for Commodore than it is about making mega bucks. A consistent 30,000 Cruzes a year being pumped out of Elizabeth will give a consistent production base for Holden to focus making the Commodore a higher-margin sports/luxury sedan/wagon and for it to chase more speculative export contracts. Holden must be hoping the Aussie dollar continues to fall (due in part to the proposed mining super-tax) with upcoming exports to the US and local production of the Cruze. |
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One to ponder though is that @ 30,000 cars a year the market is nowhere big enough for the 600mil - 1 billion needed to set up the tooling and production. It would take over 10 years to amortise costs and financiers wouldn't be too keen to lend the money in a volatile market such as this predicated on shocks from lending scams throughout the USA and EU.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Well done to Ford Aus on the local cars, but have a look at the total sales, Holden up 29% to Fords overall 7%. I can understand the popularity of the Cruze but why is the Captiva doing so well especially against the Prado???
Ford just seems to have trouble cracking their imported model segments for some reason. If they were able to do better in these other segments, their overall market share would be right up there and giving Holden a run. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2005
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You cannot argue with it: Holden has a gifted reputation in Australia - One that far exceeds its actuality (IMHO)
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