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Originally Posted by kennyboy
FOA can't export without support from Dearborn. Dearborn is insisting on the One Ford policy, common platforms to be built around the world. The Falcon & Territory are orphans that only Oz wants(?). Even if One Ford allowed for them (Falcon & Territory), the logistics of supplying parts & training to overseas dealers for engines that aren't sold anywhere else would be expensive.
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FoA can't export without a workable business plan, this has been gone through at least four times in the 2000s
and every time, the answer comes back the same. look at Holden, the last disaster cost them $200 million.
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Originally Posted by Chopped
Ford US is choking Ford Aus. GM will do the same to Holden.
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Incorrect, Ford Australia has been given a very long lead, if Dearborn wanted Falcon gone, it would have done it years ago.
The them and us you think exists between divisions is simply not there, it's all one big engineering resource pool that
works on lots of different projects, FoA is involve with no fewer than four international projects atm...
Falcon has friends in high places but the sums for export don't work and the market for RWD cars in the USA
is now much lower as everyone mostly switches to mid sized FWD vehicles.
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Originally Posted by bobthebilda
Doesnt mean FoA has a degree of autonomy at all. What it means is that the Head office is basically saying " we dont care what sort of assistance you are going to give us, especially if we have to put in $2 for every $1 of Government money".
If FoA had some say in the matter, they would have taken what assistance they could, and attempted to ramp up exports. Ford Head office, would have been thinking, why should we be spending money on a high cost manufacturing plant, to try and compete with our low cost exporting plants from thailand etc.
What the articles does say, is that politicians (and remember Kim Carr was a teacher before he become a politician (car expert)), probably dont have the expertise of running large companies like the CEO and CFO of Ford, do.
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As above, the export plan was reviewed no fewer than four times in the 2000s and each time the answer cam back
the same, lots of red ink but unlike Holden, FoA weren't dumb enough to try exports anyway.
Funny now that Holden are trying it Ford's way and content to be a domestic manufacturer
with about 200 Caprice PPVs a month.......Pffft, why did they even bother...