Saving the US Auto Industry

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Err, pardon?

Autralia has four car manufacturers. oops, three - Mitsubishi just shut down.

Holden (GM) makes commodores (in Adelaide). 6 or 8 cylinder.
Ford makes falcons (in Geelong). 6 or 8 cylinder.
Toyota makes camrys (near Melbourne). 4 or (I think) 6 cylinder.
Mitsubishi made 380s (in Adelaide, aka deadelaide). 6 cylinder.

While each brand does have smaller cars on the market, they are (AFAIK) all imports. Locally made cars are all medium to large family cars. Which was why Mitsubishi shut down when the price of petrol went through the roof. Ducks, can you confirm?

Mostly 6's because there's not the market for 8's here as much although we know Ford and Holden make their performance vehicles for the rev heads.

Toyota make mostly 4's. (Aurion is the only 6 manufactured here whilst Camry, the 4 is by far the biggest seller)

And of course, Mitsubishi aren't doing so well are they?

My point was that we don't make a whole heap of 4wd's and large specialty vehicles like Hummers for example. Yes we do make 6's and 8's here, but I think in general, most of them are pretty average verging on small compared to US manufactured vehicles.