IMO I think you're ALL missing the most important point to my mind.
I don't care either way which manufacture you do or don't support, but vehicle manufacturing is second only to aerospace engineering from the technical view point. Loose the ability to produce & manufacture such technology and our country is the biggest loser.
When our Govt decided to not support all facets Australian manufacturing in its purchasing policy more than 20+ years ago in favour of short sited fiscal savings, we started loosing our manufacturing base. The money saved then had to go back to industries that tried to survive not having big enough local markets. In a free market economy that's okay, BUT in reality, we don't have that here.
Both sides of politics are to blame here, along with the mongrels having no common sense what so ever !
Top that off with elected members having little to no experience in running a business and this is the result that we most likely deserve
Enough said.