[Gav]

The downturn of the Australian car industry came with the removal of tariffs on imported cars.
Sure we paid a little more but at least we had local jobs.
It is quite difficult to imagine what is to become of Aus once a few more major manufacturers pull out and go OS.
Unfortunately Ford, GM and Toyota source parts for their local products from the same places, loosing one of the remaining 3 car manufacturers will put extra pressure on them and could possibly make it too difficult to be competitive with OS suppliers, resulting in further losses of jobs.
Sorry to be all doom and gloom but I reckon we are heading for a bit of a rude wake up call in the future.