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Originally Posted by rodderz
The government can in a way control this situation and save a heap of local jobs by controlling how much tax and tariffs there are on local vs imported cars. Perhaps if they made imported cars more expensive the local plants, plus the 1000's of employees that work for suppliers, could keep working.
Buyers of imported cars won't be happy but all we seem to be doing by allowing such cheap cars here is supporting another country's economy instead of our own. media doesn't help either, local cars here get a reeming because they flog them for being heavier and thirster
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The catch with this thinking is I wouldn't trust Ford management or their customer relationship people to organise my shopping, let alone sell me a competitive, well engineered and high quality vehicle.
Don't get me wrong the Terri and Falcon are light years ahead of what went before them, but I just couldnt justify propping up an American company that is poorly managed and takes our money from taxes when things are bad, and sends our money back to the US when things are good. They have never made the proper committment and investment in Australia and the fact the Falcon has no serious export markets is proof enough of that.
Dan