42 points

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

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More accurately: American car manufacturers killed our local production.

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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

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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.

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7 points

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

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15 points

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

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5 points

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

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America: “it’s fine when corporations move manufacturing to China and sell back home for a huge profit… But it’s not okay for China to sell their manufactured goods in the USA”

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If EU manufacturers didn’t charge 35k for a car that barely fits 3 people, we wouldn’t need to turn to these chinese cars.

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I don’t blame them. I used to look down on them until my mother bought a Chinese car and I was impressed by how good it is, not just for the price but full stop.

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American imperialism will never allow working, quality Chinese cars. You will buy Tesla and YOU WILL like it!

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Chinese manufacturing won’t allow quality Chinese cars…

At least they won’t have them in the export line.

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