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With Gm all but finished in US, although I'd think this is just a strategy to completely restructure company. GM in china is apperently is doing very well. In the article I read it would be cheaper for all GM vechicles to be built in china and ship them back to states........logical but not rational....well not yet.....
.....maybe another decade....?
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...puts a new meaning on a MINGSWOOD...
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If everything gets built in China who will have a job here? Then who will have a job to buy these goods?
There are so many companies going broke or getting it from China now so what will our work force do in the future? Is Australia about to become a she
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Imagine how we feel in the US. We used to have dozens of car companies now we got three two of which are mostly owned by the Government.
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we have track mounted equipment that we buy and gets sold to america one of the service fitters has been there alot and he said no one helps you no one works overtime and no one goes out of there way to get the job done. he has worked in 32 states and say |
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Hard to believe that the US that is responsible for putting man on the moon (Thanks to Wernher Von Braun a German from the Nazi rocket program), F117 aircraft (Thanks to Ben Rich a Philippine Jew), and the '59 Cadillac (Ed Glowacke conducting with Dave Ho Edited by user Tuesday, 2 June 2009 6:03:22 PM(UTC)
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The Japs are the same I work for a Holden supplier Hirotech which is a japanese family owned business in Elizabeth , the japs there are working up to 14 hours a day some more in the past and do not question the boss.
In japan they do rotating shifts and
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the biggest problem with the auto industry is building cars for building sake, there is no point in building a product if no one want's too or can afford to purchase it, originally cars were built to order, now the industry is making cars in the hope the |
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Good point Monaro 202, but you better start believing it ....china's build quality is getting better and the cheap labour is impossible to beat.
USA will keep there car industry going by basically subsidizing it...for there pride or just to keep people e
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Hi Musksell,
I reckon a dry wit is missing from these pages at times. My comment was a pun. A joke.
Ming was a dynasty in China. We have Holdens we call Mingswoods, so it seems more than appropriate to make a "joke" that sadly missed the mark.
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sorry truebluhq missed that point altogether.
Come to think about it the VE commodore is something like 50% made in China already.....so its maybe just a matter of time and it will be a mingsdore
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Good one trublu, I missed it too.
Muskell,
Regarding your comment about 50% of the VE being Chinese, this would be less than most items on the Australian market today, including other cars.
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I agree with you Dr Terry....and yes its sad....but unless the Govt subsidizes our industries or puts big tariffs up (much of a muchness really) we will be producing very little in ten years.
And yes its quite possible all of the commodore will be made
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The writing on the wall for GM was the last oil crisis in the 1970's but they didnt see it coming. The Japs learnt real quick but not GM.
It has now taken another oil crisis and a real sharp recession to bring about their downfall. This has been compou
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it is a worry bout china taking over everythang,
manufacturing etc, and yes we are paid heaps more than the poor people in china.
same thing happened with japan,, now they are in bad situation, they once owned the world.?
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I suppose we are all a victim of greed. Greed by the manufaturer paying massive salaries to the top notch white collars who move on when it gets bad.
$30 mil to the head of telstra to leave his contract early who put it further down the sh^^tter than it
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You make some good points mate but there is a flip side to everything. Do you check the tags when you buy clothing? I don't as often as i should. If you check your cupboard the majority is made in China. I'm willing to pay 50% plus more for australian mad
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You make a valid point about the jocks but the problem is that the greedy executives of Pacific Brands and any other Australian company that makes stuff in China is that they are still selling the same product in Australia for the same price, in
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