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@kirkc9643 Ahahaha ah no. Holden are next to unknown beyond Australasia. Clearly you have never ventured beyond Australia…
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@stevenrochelle2238 Where on earth were Holdens and Aussie fords ever exported to?! I know they had a market in New Zealand, although a minor share compare to Toyota and other Japanese makers. But where else?!
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@martinmilton-white5172 So in other words they made and exported other GM marks, that thus weren't Holdens.
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@kirkc9643 Ah no. If Holden’s were ever exported; it would’ve been in piddly small numbers and badged & branded as another GM marque. After all most cars sold as Holden’s over the decades were really something like an OPEL, Chevrolet, Vauxhall, etc. Holden has no profile in the world as a brand. And contrary to your nationalist bias they were generally rubbish automobiles.
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@gregiles908 Too right; Aussie cars were overall pretty crap. What’s ironic is that they were very poorly suited for most Australian lifestyles. Over heavy, over large and overpowered. As for the $48 an hour stating rate: Those sort of decently paid process work jobs look attractive salary wise. But they end up becoming a trap, because people can’t leave with their specialised skills and get jobs anywhere else that pay as well. And those manufacturing plants become depressing soul destroying places to work after a while. I’ve heard that most of the former automobile workers got trained up to be elderly care workers. I wonder how many packed that in after a year or so?
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@chrisskinner7859 So why is the Holden VB commodore identical the the OPEL Commodore C and Vauxhall Viceroy that were around 2-3 before the VB Commodore came out? Talking from your arse aren’t you?
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@hjf3022 How many? A couple of hundred? The middle east drives European cars. Australian cars are almost unknown there.
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@hjf3022 If that’s even true: That’s peanuts.
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@bibinms4436 not necessarily. There’s a racist element of Australian society. Especially in provincial areas. But that’s the case in any developed nation. Australian racism is very overt but I don’t think it’s necessarily worse than other developed nations.
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@millsyinnz What has that got to do with the former ford factory sucking purple bell ends? ?just because Chinese work conditions suck in a different way doesn't validate the former Australian factory. Its not a case that it has to be one or the other. This all smacks of an inferiority complex.
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I’m from New Zealand and I have no idea what you think you’re talking about.
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Australian cars were garbage quality knock offs of overseas models. They were increasingly heavily subsidised by the federal government. Australia was always too limited a market for even one car firm from the 1980s. And they were never really very practical let alone for overseas markets.
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@MyKharli Australian society has a nationalist element that is conditioned to think that anything that happens to come from Australia must be inherently good.
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