Government insider reckons Ford's local ops are gone in 2016

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Originally Posted by Bossxr8

And I still think Holden are stupid for spending so much on VF, I highly doubt it will do much to put a stop to the sales slide. It might initially but within 6-12 months it will keep sinking once the novelty of a new Commodore wears off and people continue moving on to SUV's, dual cabs and smaller cars.

One thing that is glaring in my eyes is Ford have bugger all capability of building an all new model, the engineering divisions responsible for getting cars into production are basically all gone now, as well as the tool room. The stamping and structures engineering section my dad worked in has one guy left out of the 20+ they had a few years ago. And a lot of these skills are specific jobs that require specific training by Ford to do, you can't just hire engineers fresh out of university to do them.

Stamping and tooling has changed so much these days, I would expect that FoA could order a set of stamps
from elsewhere at a fraction of the cost, especially now that build processes are being aligned.