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5 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

German Cars are all over Melbourne now

VW, Mercedes, Audi and Porsche. 

German engineered but built in Thailand or who knows where these days.

GM and Ford really left Australia with nothing if you reflect upon it. With the wonderful benefit of hindsight we would have been better concentrating on design and having the cars built elsewhere. Then again English designed cars aren't exactly smashing it on the world stage.

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    22 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    German engineered but built in Thailand or who knows where these days.

    GM and Ford really left Australia with nothing if you reflect upon it. With the wonderful benefit of hindsight we would have been better concentrating on design and having the cars built elsewhere. Then again English designed cars aren't exactly smashing it on the world stage.

    Still German Companies though, subsidised by the German Governments. 
     

    we should have kept one Car Maker in Australia, 3 was too many. 
    Assembly Plants are in Asia. The Economies over there allow lower wages

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    1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Neck and Neck?

    German Cars are all over Melbourne now

    VW, Mercedes, Audi and Porsche. 
    where are the GM products?

    Seriously i see about 2 a week now. 
     

    Not really. We've sold about 10,000 more cars than them year to date, which is a fair bit in the Aussie market. In recent months though they've been selling around 3,000 cars a month which is about the numbers we're doing. 

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    59 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Still German Companies though, subsidised by the German Governments. 
     

    we should have kept one Car Maker in Australia, 3 was too many. 
    Assembly Plants are in Asia. The Economies over there allow lower wages

    Most likely could have kept Holden here, but Joe Hockey and Abbot played chicken with GM and lost...Or maybe this is what they wanted?

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    Football gents 

    don’t get me started on subsidies to industries owned off shore

    wealth transfers to rent seekers

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    1 hour ago, AllMyTeamsAreWank said:

    Not really. We've sold about 10,000 more cars than them year to date, which is a fair bit in the Aussie market. In recent months though they've been selling around 3,000 cars a month which is about the numbers we're doing. 

    I am not doubting your figures, but i am suprised. 
    i do not see GM products on the road anymore, and and as a 60’s baby, they used to be everywhere in the City and the Country

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    2 hours ago, AllMyTeamsAreWank said:

    Most likely could have kept Holden here, but Joe Hockey and Abbot played chicken with GM and lost...Or maybe this is what they wanted?

    Abbott had no intention of keeping the Industry going. 
    His Fleet of Cars when he was Sworn in were all 7 Series BMW’s

    That was the Death Knell right there

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    My Jag V12 is a little thirty on the benzine.

    When I’m out shopping I usually just go with the rickshaw and to hell with speed limit.

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