apologies.. I thought they were only assembled here, not actually developed and manufactured here.
What other hybrids are developed in Australia ? None I think.
You are correct. The Camry Hybrid is assembled in Australia but it is developed in Japan.
Who would develop hybrid technology in Australia? We have no local car companies - the three manufacturers are subsidiaries of overseas companies. Toyota has some local R&D but is mostly a CKD operation. Ford and Holden have big local R&D activities. However as seen in last weeks accouncement about Holden, these local R&D activities are being wound back. The Commodore will be replaced post 2016 with a US sourced model. I expect Ford to make a similar accouncement about the demise of the Falcon.
Common sense is a curse - those who have it need to suffer dealing with those who don't have it.
And so Australia continues its inevitable slide towards becoming a nation of dirt-diggers, hair dressers and fast food employees. The manufacturing industry will be gutted, prime agricultural land that survives coal seam gas mining will be sold off to foreign interests to ensure their own food security while Australia, as a political vassal of the United States, will focus on critical issues like imprisoning intellectual property pirates rather than the nation's future.
"prime agricultural land that survives coal seam gas mining will be sold off to foreign interests to ensure their own food security"
I replied once to a similar panic mongering statement of yours, but you never replied.
Selling farmland to foreigners does not affect our food security. If food security ever became an issue to rich countries (a long way off, if ever), the government would simply nationalise the farms, or demand that they sell their produce internally. One could suggest that if this were done, the country that owned the farms (China, in the nightmares of most panic mongers), would react badly, perhaps even invade in some particularly paranoid view. This is of course a silly viewpoint - if the world had reached a point where countries were invading each other over food supplies, then whether they had owned the farms in the first place would be irrelevant.
If you see the world going the way of the above, don't worry about who owns the farms. You should worry about Australia purchasing Joint Strike Fighters, petitioning to obtain the F-22 Raptor, allowing the US to deploy missile shield technology here, and further becoming a "political vassal". We have relied on the US for security since the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, and have been in many ways a "political vassal" since then. Of course the period from WW2 to now has been terrible for Australia - just ask Strindberg, he has a great deal of information regarding how rich a country we are etc.
And so Australia continues its inevitable slide towards becoming a nation of dirt-diggers, hair dressers and fast food employees. The manufacturing industry will be gutted, prime agricultural land that survives coal seam gas mining will be sold off to foreign interests to ensure their own food security while Australia, as a political vassal of the United States, will focus on critical issues like imprisoning intellectual property pirates rather than the nation's future.
"prime agricultural land that survives coal seam gas mining will be sold off to foreign interests to ensure their own food security"
I replied once to a similar panic mongering statement of yours, but you never replied.
Selling farmland to foreigners does not affect our food security. If food security ever became an issue to rich countries (a long way off, if ever), the government would simply nationalise the farms, or demand that they sell their produce internally. One could suggest that if this were done, the country that owned the farms (China, in the nightmares of most panic mongers), would react badly, perhaps even invade in some particularly paranoid view. This is of course a silly viewpoint - if the world had reached a point where countries were invading each other over food supplies, then whether they had owned the farms in the first place would be irrelevant.
If you see the world going the way of the above, don't worry about who owns the farms. You should worry about Australia purchasing Joint Strike Fighters, petitioning to obtain the F-22 Raptor, allowing the US to deploy missile shield technology here, and further becoming a "political vassal". We have relied on the US for security since the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, and have been in many ways a "political vassal" since then. Of course the period from WW2 to now has been terrible for Australia - just ask Strindberg, he has a great deal of information regarding how rich a country we are etc.
many seemed to agree with Notfooled regarding the importance of "food security". I would be interested in hearing responses from them on my post. Food security (and the general irrational treatment of farming compared to other industries) is tied with boat people as my favourite "social panic". Hence my interest in discussing.
I am sick of paying having to pay four times the real cost of a car just to keep a few thousand misallocated workers employed. Holdens and (Australian) Fords are simply not good cars. In Australia we pay up to 4 times the price of any imported car in order to finance this madness.
So as far as i am concerned this couldn't happen fast enough.
I am sick of paying having to pay four times the real cost of a car just to keep a few thousand misallocated workers employed. Holdens and (Australian) Fords are simply not good cars. In Australia we pay up to 4 times the price of any imported car in order to finance this madness.
Is there evidence that the bulk of taxes and import duties goes to prop up the local auto industry? I did not think that was the case. But it makes me wonder where all the taxes are spent?
THE latest mass sacking of Ford workers in Victoria has embarrassed the Gillard government and revived questions about the use of more than $1 billion a year of taxpayers' money to prop up the ailing car industry.
Ford Australia's announcement yesterday that it would shed 440 jobs at its Geelong and Broadmeadows plants came just six months after Julia Gillard unveiled a $34 million bailout of the company and declared it would lead to more jobs.
''There will be an additional 300 jobs as a result,'' the Prime Minister said in January.
Faced yesterday with news of Ford's sackings due to sagging sales of the locally built Falcon, Ms Gillard said the job losses would have been in the thousands without the recent government help.
Premier Ted Baillieu, whose government tipped $19 million of Victorian taxpayers' money into the Ford bailout, also defended it, saying it had been money well spent.
Federal opposition industry spokeswoman Sophie Mirabella attacked Labor for handing money to Ford without guarantees on job numbers.
THE latest mass sacking of Ford workers in Victoria has embarrassed the Gillard government and revived questions about the use of more than $1 billion a year of taxpayers' money to prop up the ailing car industry.
Why should my taxes pay for that?
I put trolls and time wasters on my ignore list so if I don't respond to you, you are probably on it ....
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