|
Welcome to the Australian Ford Forums forum. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and inserts advertising. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features without post based advertising banners. Registration is simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. Please Note: All new registrations go through a manual approval queue to keep spammers out. This is checked twice each day so there will be a delay before your registration is activated. |
|
The Pub For General Automotive Related Talk |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
24-04-2010, 05:38 PM | #1 | ||
Terri Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 95
|
__________________
2008 TS RWD 2008 FG XR6T |
||
24-04-2010, 07:35 PM | #2 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
Posts: 12,025
|
Australia is a tuff place to make/save a buck, i can`t see this changeing in the future sadly.
|
||
24-04-2010, 08:47 PM | #3 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 1,242
|
what, no government hand outs to keep it here. Autoliv must have had a non union workforce, for Kamikazee Kim Carr not to pour millions of dollars to keep it here.
|
||
25-04-2010, 12:10 PM | #4 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 3,246
|
Bugger, that sucks. With a quite politically unstable country moving to Thailand could be a risky venture. I do realise the FTA we have with them though.
Still, it burns me that Thailand introduced their new 'environmental' tax larger capacity motor vehicles within months of the FTA being signed. Specifically aimed at Australian vehicles but under the guise of being green. This meant that the Mitsubishi 380 which was to be exported in reasonable volume was cancelled. The Thai government action played a large role in the death of that car. Territory was set to go their too with a target of 5,000pa. Good luck to the re-trenched workers. Hope things work out for them.
__________________
BA2 XR8 Rapid M6 Ute - Lid - Tint -18s 226.8rwkW@178kmh/537Nm@140kmh 1/9/2013 14.2@163kmh 23/10/2013 Boss349 built. Not yet run. Waiting on a shell. Retrotech thread http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthr...1363569&page=6 |
||
25-04-2010, 12:46 PM | #5 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 1,242
|
Does anyone know exactly what autoliv made at their campbellfield factory. From my understanding alot of their products (which tend to contain explosive devices) came from overseas anyhow.
|
||
25-04-2010, 01:46 PM | #6 | |||
FGX XR8
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 702
|
Quote:
|
|||
25-04-2010, 02:09 PM | #7 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 11,333
|
Quote:
Autoliv Australia Autoliv Test Centre They have a test centre in Thailand too so I wonder if that's where a lot of the T6 crash testing was done... |
|||
25-04-2010, 05:21 PM | #8 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 1,242
|
You would think that with all the parts coming in from overseas, its going to be a nightmare for the car companies. Whilst they all try to work to just in time, you would think they have to hold alot of stock on hand, just in case of the long supply times, and any disruptions. Cant be good to hold alot of stock, just in case, when you aint making so many cars.
|
||
25-04-2010, 07:18 PM | #9 | |||
Regular Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 264
|
Quote:
partzkid |
|||