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Originally Posted by au3 chaser
This is about Australian firsts....
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Que? How do you define an Australian manufacturer? BMC was one of the major Australian car manufacturers building cars here of eventually up to nearly 100% local content (cf. the current situation). The parent company was foreign, yes - like GM, Ford and Toyota. The designs were Australian developments of overseas designs, yes - like early Ford Falcons, Camrys etc. And how much of Holdens have been 'Australian' in reality? The Commodore comes from Germany (thus bringing from overseas some of the innovations listed on this thread) and I suspect if you look into it most early Holdens had large chunks of Chevrolet in them because they certainly handled like American cars.
Either you're unaware of the history of the motor industry in Australia or you're setting up a paramater that somehow Holden is the only true blue Australian manufacturer. The Holden PR dept would be happy with that.
If you want to be really narrow - I can think of only two Australian cars from the ground up - the Leyland P76 and the Ford Territory.