Australian car production: where to from here?

[Motorbreath310]

My biggest concern is for the workers, to be honest. As well as the flow-on effects as have been mentioned.

Little off topic, but do you think some of these people will use the 3 year advance notice to go out and upskill or something? What other options would say, a production floor worker have once Broady closes?

[mik]

Originally Posted by BroadyFord

Does anyone think there is a chance another manufacturer could pick up the plant?

Anything is possible................. but in these days of world over supply of cars its pretty hard to see it happening.

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by 302 XC

I don't understand how a business can close by sitting on their hands ???
If ford are struggling to sell cars ,do they advertise how good they are ???
Are they doin deals to get people to buy ???
Its like their all sitting back waiting for the people to come in ,in droves ....
Local Nissan dealer ,has cars out the front of lot, on the grass footpath,on the vacant block next door, big windscreen sized prices
Big adds in the papers,everywhere you look theres some Nissan adds ....
Does it work, yep
There out selling holden

Its quite clear they gave up trying a year or 2 ago and were prepared to let it die, knowing that whatever they did was never going to lift sales high enough to justify a new model Falcon.

FG business plan I think was based on 3500 Falcon sales a month, it's about a quarter of that now. It was just never going to work. Holden probably don't even get those numbers even with exports, so they must be crapping themselves now.