well i had the exciting pleasure of replacing the worn old brake pedal rubber on the holden
Hey Dave...just heard Holden is no more? What caused this? Not the virus, I guess.
In Dave’s absence Steve, GMH (Holden) Ford and Toyota stopped building cars here in 2016-2018. The car industry was being propped up By the Australian tax payer to manufacture cars that nobody wanted to buy.
Ford and Holden continued to cosmetically update 20 year old gas guzzling large sedans, And Toyota continued to build bland character-less shopping trolleys designed for government use and the taxi industry, while the people wanted SUV’s and little econo-boxes.
I bought (well leased, initially, but I’ve just paid out the lease) the last of the Aussie built Ford Territory SUV’s, which was Ford’s best seller here, but didn’t sell in large enough numbers to keep manufacturing in Oz. Once the Australian government told GM, Ford and Toyota that they wouldn’t be giving Detroit and Tokyo half a billion dollars annually to keep their factories open, they closed them and put hundreds of workers out of a job.
I’d love to see car manufacturing return to Oz eventually, but not like it was before, where GM and Ford particularly were siphoning the government welfare money to prop up their operations in the US, while building poor quality cars here. I love my Ford Territory, and being a v6 diesel will probably outlive me.