Ford production cut by 20% as of next month?

[Smoke Pursuit]

I just heard on the news Ford is Cutting Falcon and Territory Production by 20% offering voluntary redundancy packages, this can't be good for the industry.

[vztrt]

Yeah, hopefully this stops the slide and they can run in the black building lower numbers.
Hopefully the grant Ford got from the government to design & build LHD cars will help them find an export market.

[Falcon Freak]

The whole industry is going down the drain. Of the local four, only Toyota have a positive outlook as their sales are increasing since the introduction of the new 4 cylinder Camry.

FF

[AMT]

Yeah no more afternoon shift production for us..!!!! sucks hard... :

[Falcon Freak]

Actually I am surprised that Ford has made the decision to cut production now before gauging the public's reaction to the BFII model. Three reasons which could work in the BFIIs favour are:

- it is more economical then the superceded BF model
- it is more economical then the new VE Commodore
- the price of crude oil/petrol has fallen 20% in the last two months - read this article

I am curious to see how VE vs BFII sell.

FF

[SpoolMan]

My dads wife works for the company that does the plastic components for Ford they have been on a 4 day week for 2 months.
18 months ago they couldn't do enough overtime.