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While the US and EU are putting up barriers to Chinese cars, Australians are buying them at record levels (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Australia's car manufacturing industry is basically non-existent, they import almost all of them. The EU and US have huge manufacturing bases they're trying to protect

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

More accurately: American car manufacturers killed our local production.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Really? I don't know a ton about this, but it looks like American and Japanese manufacturers are the only ones to have ever operated in Australia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

We had Australian made and designed cars, then gm bought out Holden and ran it into the ground before shuttering the brand entirely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not super into cars, but it's my understanding Holden was a local manufacturer that got bought out by GM? Or if not that, then they were making specifically Australian vehicles despite being part of GM, much like Ford Australia used to. Both ended up shutting down operations down here, so now we have nothing local.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So not the fault of USA manufacturers, but Australia's incompetent leadership

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

No, not even close to that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Pour one out for the poor bosses at GM and Ford

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Adelaide killed big chunks of their public transport system to appease Holden, who fucked off anyway. Still salty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Thanks to Joe Hockey and the LNP government who decided it wasn’t strategically important to have high value manufacturing in Australia.