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GM walking away from Australia
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BravoV:

--- Quote from: I wanted a rude username on February 18, 2020, 04:54:59 am ---This is bigger than just Australia: GM plans to entirely stop manufacturing right-hand drive passenger cars, for all markets. (They might do a few speciality conversions, but those will be effectively aftermarket.)

Shows what a tough situation they are in financially.

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Yep, not only at Oz, but also at many countries starting last year actually, while still stick in China.

Source -> Timeline: General Motors streamlines its international operations
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: Kerlin on February 18, 2020, 05:40:35 am ---They were the last to supply radios, heaters, radial tires, carpet, fuel injection and everything else.
I had a Monaro nearly kill me when its double circuit brakes failed.

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Toyota notoriously offered only under powered motors to mid to large range vehicles here compared to our U.S. counterparts.
Kerlin:
An article in the local paper says they were one in every two cars sold in the 50s, then one in every five in 2002 and fell to four in every hundred in recent times.
I think that's more the reason they shut up shop - people stopped buying them.
For reasons like I have already covered and found myself.
tautech:
Owned 5 Fords before I went to a Holden and on our 2nd one that's now 18 years old and been a great car.
Now both Ford and Holden can kiss my arse, stuff them both !
2 fingers to GM and they ain't for victory !  :horse:
Kerlin:
When discussing Holden's the survey of one or few always comes up as a defence.
That's the thing with poor quality control, you must make some good ones, by mistake.
A study of statistics is relevant.

Its like people who used to say "I have a grandmother who is 87 and smoked all her life, nothing wrong with smoking"
In this case she is an exception to the rule, not the rule.

Try a larger survey for instance RACV/Q, NRMA, why did people stop buying them?




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