Should Ford build a third vehicle in Australia?

[Road_Warrior]

Regardless of what happens with the next-gen Falcon platform, it is highly unlikely that sales volume of that car will exceed 50,000 units per year. Large and large-ish cars in Australia have become more of a niche player against smaller cars and SUV's.

The thing is this: the Broadmeadows assembly plant has a capacity of 120,000 units per annum, so even if the new car does sell well (as does it's Territory cousin, whatever that may be in the future), there is still a lot of unused capacity in the assembly plant.

Should Ford look at this as a 'wasted asset' and bring a third vehicle line to Australia to be built, and at the same time, bring the plant's production to near capacity?

As we know, there was a plan to build the third gen Focus here, but that was canned in favour of Ecoboost Falcons. Bill Osborne, the CEO who only lasted 6 months, wanted to build everything here - Focus, Mondeo, Falcon and Territory - perhaps he could see the potential and wanted to make full use of the plant?

Should a third platform be built here, and what should it be?