From: PaulpULVITZKA on
http://www.news.com.au/business/export-crash-leads-to-big-holden-loss/story-e6frfm1i-1225848310901

Maybe the worst is behind?, but the Dunnydore sales are going down and
down each & every year, won't stop sinking either, the glory big-
volume days [thanks stupid tariffs protection] are over.

Once the Dunnydore dies all we have from the LionKing brand are Korean
junkboxes as per now, *maybe* US GovCo owned GM should just get out of
the car industry all together?

Just wish K.Dudd would stop giving them 100's million$ of our taxes,
why should the auto industry keep getting HUGE hand outs of our money?

Rather have my money pumped into hospitals, schools, public-transport,
roads, innovation [multi function polis] etc etc
From: D Walford on
On 1/04/2010 2:41 PM, PaulpULVITZKA wrote:
> http://www.news.com.au/business/export-crash-leads-to-big-holden-loss/story-e6frfm1i-1225848310901
>
> Maybe the worst is behind?, but the Dunnydore sales are going down and
> down each& every year, won't stop sinking either, the glory big-
> volume days [thanks stupid tariffs protection] are over.

More to do with people deciding that they no longer need large cars
since the price of petrol has gone up so much.
If both Holden and Ford had done a lot more to convince people of the
advantages of LPG big car sales may not have declined so much.
>
> Once the Dunnydore dies all we have from the LionKing brand are Korean
> junkboxes as per now, *maybe* US GovCo owned GM should just get out of
> the car industry all together?
>
> Just wish K.Dudd would stop giving them 100's million$ of our taxes,
> why should the auto industry keep getting HUGE hand outs of our money?
>

Would you rather the money went to unemployment benefits for the 10's of
thousands of people who would loose their jobs if the industry fails?
There is also the other benefit of maintaining some of the Australia's
self sufficiency by having some sort of large scale manufacturing
facilities.



Daryl
From: Noddy on

"D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message
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> Would you rather the money went to unemployment benefits for the 10's of
> thousands of people who would loose their jobs if the industry fails?

Considering that the government is paying either way, paying for the workers
to be on the Coffee Scroll would probably be cheaper.

> There is also the other benefit of maintaining some of the Australia's
> self sufficiency by having some sort of large scale manufacturing
> facilities.

Our manufacturing base ceased to be "large scale" by 1980.

What we have left today is "boutique industry". It makes a lot of noise and
spends a lot of money making small numbers of items that sell for three
times the price of similar things made anywhere else.

--
Regards,
Noddy.


From: Scotty on

"D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:4bb46f76$0$27851$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
: On 1/04/2010 2:41 PM, PaulpULVITZKA wrote:
: >
http://www.news.com.au/business/export-crash-leads-to-big-holden-loss/story-e6frfm1i-1225848310901
: >
: > Maybe the worst is behind?, but the Dunnydore sales are going down and
: > down each& every year, won't stop sinking either, the glory big-
: > volume days [thanks stupid tariffs protection] are over.
:
: More to do with people deciding that they no longer need large cars
: since the price of petrol has gone up so much.
: If both Holden and Ford had done a lot more to convince people of the
: advantages of LPG big car sales may not have declined so much.
: >
: > Once the Dunnydore dies all we have from the LionKing brand are Korean
: > junkboxes as per now, *maybe* US GovCo owned GM should just get out of
: > the car industry all together?
: >
: > Just wish K.Dudd would stop giving them 100's million$ of our taxes,
: > why should the auto industry keep getting HUGE hand outs of our money?
: >
:
: Would you rather the money went to unemployment benefits for the 10's of
: thousands of people who would loose their jobs if the industry fails?
: There is also the other benefit of maintaining some of the Australia's
: self sufficiency by having some sort of large scale manufacturing
: facilities.
:
:
:
: Daryl

Why not let Jap imports into the country, that would boost all sorts of new industry.



From: Noddy on

" Scotty" <scoter1(a)warmmail.com> wrote in message
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> Why not let Jap imports into the country, that would boost all sorts of
> new industry.

What, sub woofer shops?

New Zealand went crazy with grey imports, and in a relatively short time
what was left of it's car industry was royally fucked because of it.

--
Regards,
Noddy.