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Ford to cease production in Australia
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I feel terribly sorry for the 1200 Ford employees, but there will be more in the supply change who will also cop it because of this decision.
Know of a couple of long, long term employees and they reckon the writing was on the wall in the mid 80's, credit to Ford for hanging tough for so long. I don't think GM will be around in it's current form for much longer and I wouldn't trust Toyota to stay at any stage.
Ford didn't help it's cause dropping models like the Ute, Wagon, Fairlane etc over the last few years. Basically gave Holden free kick on supplying those types of vehicles.
One outstanding fact is that there are apparently 360 odd models of vehicles for our consumers to decide over, with a population of just 23 mill of which half probably don't own a vehicle, that is a massive choice and one that the Ford CEO acknowledged in his presser. We have nearly the biggest choice of cars in the world which for some may be great, because we have opened up our doors too much with tariff cuts to the OS manufacturers. Ford just couldn't build a locally made vehicle anymore to fit into that space based on local production costs and I don't see how GM or Toyota can be much different.
Too little too late, but IMO every Federal, State and Local govt vehicle should have been a locally manufactured one if there is one that fits the bill. That would at least have kept things humming along, but perhaps it's just time that we end the car manufacturing farce and face the truth. We as a country just can't sustain vehicle manufacturing.
Know of a couple of long, long term employees and they reckon the writing was on the wall in the mid 80's, credit to Ford for hanging tough for so long. I don't think GM will be around in it's current form for much longer and I wouldn't trust Toyota to stay at any stage.
Ford didn't help it's cause dropping models like the Ute, Wagon, Fairlane etc over the last few years. Basically gave Holden free kick on supplying those types of vehicles.
One outstanding fact is that there are apparently 360 odd models of vehicles for our consumers to decide over, with a population of just 23 mill of which half probably don't own a vehicle, that is a massive choice and one that the Ford CEO acknowledged in his presser. We have nearly the biggest choice of cars in the world which for some may be great, because we have opened up our doors too much with tariff cuts to the OS manufacturers. Ford just couldn't build a locally made vehicle anymore to fit into that space based on local production costs and I don't see how GM or Toyota can be much different.
Too little too late, but IMO every Federal, State and Local govt vehicle should have been a locally manufactured one if there is one that fits the bill. That would at least have kept things humming along, but perhaps it's just time that we end the car manufacturing farce and face the truth. We as a country just can't sustain vehicle manufacturing.
Tigerhart04 said:
Can we sustain any type of manufacturing then?
It seems many different sectors are moving their businesses offshore to remain globally competitive and instead of Government's throwing money at the problem thinking that this will fix the issue (or at least keep them going until the sitting Government are out of office and then it becomes someone else's problem), maybe its time the Government sat down with business leaders and looked at how we can encourage businesses to stay here.
Sure, there are things out of the Government's control, but there is a lot within our own control also.
Tigerhart04 said:
You can thank the labour party and senator john button and more recently the incompetent steve brack's for futher reaffirming the industry requiring tarrif cuts. So much for protecting jobs for australia wereas overseas goverments put australia over a barrel.
Bad news, but at least it gives them a 3 year warning when compared to the 'on the spot' redundancies others cop.
Tigerhart04 said:
Old DSE (now DEPI) do. Falcons, Commodores and Camrys as standard fleet vehicles.
Ford Australia is a basket case. They just need to build cars that people want to drive. The Falcon died many years ago and Ford did nothing to solve the problem.
Persevering with a straight six is a joke.
Far too much American thinking and absolutely no innovation
I feel for those hat will be redundant as well as the component suppliers
Persevering with a straight six is a joke.
Far too much American thinking and absolutely no innovation
I feel for those hat will be redundant as well as the component suppliers
Michael said:
Exactly. But i used to live down the coast and Geelong really live off Ford down there. It will be a major dent in confidence of the working people down there. I really feel for them but their company executives has done them no favours what so ever.
