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Breaking Announcement: Holden to cease manufacturing in Australia by 2017
Topic Started: 11 Dec 2013, 02:50 PM (5,971 Views)
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11 Dec 2013, 06:48 PM
Without a domestic car industry to prop up, we can cut import duties on cars considerably. New and used cars will be much cheaper.

Of course this raises a couple of questions. Like why do we need continued massive immigration in the face of rising unemployment? And if average wages go down, what's going to prop up the continued boom in property prices many here seem to be anticipating?
Yes and luxury car tax can go too. That was always set just above the price of domestic models to make imports uncompetitive. 33 per cent is nearly as bad as the tax on booze and fags
Collecting desperation.
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11 Dec 2013, 06:48 PM
Without a domestic car industry to prop up, we can cut import duties on cars considerably. New and used cars will be much cheaper.
I honestly felt a short twinge of excitement reading that. What you have said is perfectly logical and for a brief moment it felt like my black Nissan GTR was just around the corner :)

Then it hit me. Why would they reduce import tax when the market has already been well conditioned to accept it? Doing so would only create drama trying to get the population to accept another tax, which for what it's worth I would personally prefer paying, if it meant i got my spunky arse black GTR for fuck all (you know, the one I would only drive only on fridays = )
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11 Dec 2013, 07:33 PM
I honestly felt a short twinge of excitement reading that. What you have said is perfectly logical and for a brief moment it felt like my black Nissan GTR was just around the corner :)

Then it hit me. Why would they reduce import tax when the market has already been well conditioned to accept it? Doing so would only create drama trying to get the population to accept another tax, which for what it's worth I would personally prefer paying, if it meant i got my spunky arse black GTR for fuck all (you know, the one I would only drive only on fridays = )
When is Abbott going to cut the shit out of the public service so we can do stuff like that?

Maybe I'm just impatient.

See, maybe Abbott is going to do all this by stealth, slowly but surely, but all the while putting the blame on Labor. :pop:

One of these will do me. I don't ask for much.

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Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments.
Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck!
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Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
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11 Dec 2013, 07:44 PM
One of these will do me. I don't ask for much.
hey, why the hell not :) stranger things have happened over the years. Once upon a time you could have had one of these (the post 1991 model) for a fist full of dollars (think 15K) while the local Lexus dealer sold the equivalent car (with an inferior engine) for 200K AUD. I honestly haven't looked at imports for a long time, but i would be willing to bet my balls there is great value there somewhere.

Fun fact: Years ago the law stated (it might still be the same for all i know) that anyone who 'lived' in Japan for at least 12 months could bring over any car they chose as a personal import and register it as if it was a local produced car. Between you and me there have been models which would have been worth taking 12 months off work in Australia to live in Japan, bring back home and make out like a bandit on the sale of the registered car.
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Zero is coming...

When will this farcical car building folly end.
Why train an entire group of people to make something that people do not want??
Supply and demand law will stop this stupidity.
It is just a mater of time.
Resistance is futile.
1 of 1 of The Borg has spoken.
End car manufacturing in Australia you have been assimilated, your fear ends now.
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http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/gm-to-name-mary-barra-ceo-as-holden-decision-nears/story-fnda1bsz-1226780247370

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THE $50 million the State Government was to hand to Holden to keep it assembling cars in South Australia will be quarantined and used to help workers after the car maker ceases manufacturing in 2017.


Why is tax money going to retrenched workers of a private company?
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mel
11 Dec 2013, 08:13 PM
hey, why the hell not :) stranger things have happened over the years. Once upon a time you could have had one of these (the post 1991 model) for a fist full of dollars (think 15K) while the local Lexus dealer sold the equivalent car (with an inferior engine) for 200K AUD. I honestly haven't looked at imports for a long time, but i would be willing to bet my balls there is great value there somewhere.

Fun fact: Years ago the law stated (it might still be the same for all i know) that anyone who 'lived' in Japan for at least 12 months could bring over any car they chose as a personal import and register it as if it was a local produced car. Between you and me there have been models which would have been worth taking 12 months off work in Australia to live in Japan, bring back home and make out like a bandit on the sale of the registered car.
Yeah well that's it. A 335 bmw is probably the same as a sv6 here.

Yeah I remember the Soarer, cool car. Toyota know what they're doing, although their corollas have been little pussy mobiles for a long time. They used to be fairly bad ass in the late 80s early 90s.
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Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments.
Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck!
See here
Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
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Zero is coming...

GloomBoomDoom
11 Dec 2013, 08:21 PM
Dole money, remember it is a socialist utopia we live in.
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11 Dec 2013, 08:21 PM
Labor Premier.
stinkbug omosessuale


Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments.
Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck!
See here
Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
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Catweasel say it a strange.

Master and mouse want money tree shaped as mouse house,

but when a cost get the out of control for its the lifestyles,

some the business cannot a compete.

Master, media, and mouse behave and react in very the strange way,

like it internally searching for explanation,

which can be clearly the explain by anti-narrative.

It not say anti-narrative is a true,

but it have some the regression quality.
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