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Originally Posted by westy73
What is a waste of time is doing nothing.
Ford produces a green car that the Government would buy in numbers for fleets if only Ford had put in the necessary documentation to be accepted. They didn't. So why is that ? You build a brilliant EcoBoost Falcon, critics raved about it. You don't advertise it. You don't push it to be used in Government fleets as you cannot be bothered filling in the paperwork to be accepted under Euro regs. You then advertise the Mondeo with the same engine instead of EcoBoost. What am I missing here ?
Falcon sales are only dwindling because of lack of interest by Ford themselves. The upper echelons of management has told Ford Oz to slowly can it. Erode sales over time then we can bin it.
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Ask yourself why...
Ford don't want to build in Australia because they can make greater profit margins manufacturing in Asia.
It is all about their welfare, they don't care about us.
With this in mind, why should the good people of Australia support a company which will sack 1200 people and threaten the jobs of thousands more in supply to increase their bank balance.
If this was truly about volumes they would give us a share of some of the stuff they build in Asia.
Ford have land, buildings, a workforce and equipment in Australia, all they need to do is allow us to build something we can sell here and export in enough numbers to be viable, but the profits wont be as great as they are elsewhere, so they turn their backs on us and say its our fault for not buying a car that no longer fits the bill.