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Originally Posted by prydey
They could have sold 5000 a month... still would have shut down. Not profitable at those numbers to keep the factory open. Pretty sure you know that anyway.
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Not entirely true Rob, there's a little known fact that Ford and Holden Aussie
manufacturing actually added nice little revenue earner for other Ford and
GM divisions supplying parts, it's the reason why Ford was able to keep
producing Falcon and Territory for so long at remarkably low numbers.
What was really fishy about the Holden closure was the timing of the whole
thing, Holden went from almost bragging about continuing manufacturing
beyond 2020 to an almost knee jerk response to the government pressing
them for an answer.
Also
The timing of the closure announcement came after Camaro design lock in
so no factory RHD, Holden ended production without full contingency plan
in place.....and as we've seen all of Holden's other import sales really suffered
once the local cars went away, so even more collateral damage.