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Originally Posted by Barraxr8
PD don't need Manufacturing or Assembly. HOWEVER, they use a lot of the knowledge base of the guys that build cars to help with their projects !!
In the end though, a guys sits at a computer and designs a vehicle (component), Proto parts are made my hand at PD or outside the organisation. Testing is done at the proving ground, and very early mules can be built by hand at PD.
BTW: If manufacturing goes so will Assembly - there is seriously no money in CKD unless the Government pays for it.....
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However to design, engineer, test and validate vehicles at the level they have with the T6 for example (a massive global project worth probably over a billion dollars to the local economy in itself) it would rely on the "built in" manufacturing expertise and facilities that can really only be delivered with a setup like Ford has here. Like it says in the article, Australia is one of only 3 places within Ford globally that can do it. That statement in itself speaks volumes.
Speaking of the T6, I wonder how the SUV is coming along? Havent heard (or seen) a peep about it since the announcement, I would have thought mules would be out there by now.
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