Falcon ute swooped by Holden

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Originally Posted by SSbaby

I don't get it - although granted there could be trade offs - how could Territory be responsible for the lower ute sales given one is a load carrier and restricted seater whereas the other is a family vehicle and not really a load hauler?

Besides, the ute has a turbo & V8 and the Territory has no turbo or V8. Surely this cannot account for the drop of around 500 sales/month?

SSbaby, you should have quoted the whole artical because the answer is in this statement as to why they can't just put on an extra shift.

"Mr Gorman said working Saturdays was the key to increasing Ford Australia’s record level of plant efficiency, but that bottlenecks in the engine shop, paint shop and stamping plant would limit any production increases."

So Ford will have to :-
1 spend big bickies for a new engine plant with increased capacity (the only
6 cyl engine production line in OZ now that ION's gone bust)
2 spend big bickies for a new paint shop

3 spend big bickies on another stamping plant.

I somehow thing that they are going to repay some of the faith that Dearborne showed when Ford USA pumped 500 mill into ford oz and show the other countries that ford operates in that if you research your market (territory & BA) and build what the customer wants, they'll buy it.