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11-12-2010, 10:08 PM
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Peter Car
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: geelong
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I6 production will be dropping 25% next year, with the Territory TD expected to make up 50% of total Territory sales it will mean I6 numbers will drop from 255 to 190 a day.
Despite the companies denial that anyone will lose their jobs a number of employees on contracts have already been sent packing, and any excess employees will be moved to the casting or stamping plants to make up for the increases in Territory panels and Bosch brake rotors. With the Ecoboost Falcon coming later in the year this could drop again, although Lpi production will make back up some of the losses. This would not have happened if LPi was ready to go in October as it was supposed to. With I6 numbers dropping lower than 200 and the potential for Ecoboost to steal more sales from I6 it puts it down to a point where it surely must be becoming unviable and a V6 would make better financial sense. Can't see a 2015/16 Falcon using an I6, especially with Euro 6 further down the track. Euro 5 is do-able depending on when it will be introduced. |
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I6 production to drop
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