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Originally Posted by Qwerty321

The thing a lot of people seem to forget is that a company cares purely about profits, not market share or sales. Odds are GM will make more profit selling 1000 imported Commodores a month than selling 2500 VFs. The profit margin is no doubt going to be higher with the next gen as GM will only have the expense of running one Opel factory rather than an Opel factory AND a Holden factory.

On that note, I heard that Opel were on the chopping board just like Holden were. The only difference was the Opel unions backed down and struck GM a better deal than the Holden unions. Unions are what ultimately killed local manufacturing. Someone needs to remind them that having a job is better than having a pay rise and loosing your job in 2 years. Everything past matching for inflation was pure greed on the side of the union, and as a result Opel got to keep trucking on and Holden got told to walk.

Complete rubbish. Wages only make up a small % of costs, it's the economy of scale that killed it. They build heaps more cars in their plants per year, which means all those fixed costs per vehicle are much lower (electricity, gas, taxes, OHS costs etc).

German auto workers are higher paid than Australians are anyway.