Car industry woes?

SPK-250 · 11-07-2006, 01:30 AM

At work this evening we heard a rumour that Holden are going to offload another 1000 of its employees for further down-sizing, and they are on the verge of releasing the VE. Only a rumour at this stage, but they have already made heaps of people redundant.

Also Mitsubishi are reducing their daily build sheet to 15 cars. It seems that the 380 may have been too little, too late. But everyone knew that.

Toyota are getting ready for the launch of the new Camry, and then the Aurion. All of the mufflers that are for the new car are now coming from japan in containers to which we then weld them into a complete system. Will they go completely from Japan? time will tell.

And good old Ford are still plodding along happy with business. I dont think they will be going off shore at all and its silly for anyone to think that as at work we have already started development on the next ford project for 2008 i believe, codename "ORION".

**Professor Farnsworth** · 11-07-2006, 02:44 PM

Well i'm not sure about all that but here's a link to the new camry, and as far as their press release goes everything seems to be travelling nicely for Toyota. As far as what's going on behind closed doors, i couldn't say..

CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE

vztrt · 11-07-2006, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by SPK-383

And good old Ford are still plodding along happy with business. I dont think they will be going off shore at all and its silly for anyone to think that as at work we have already started development on the next ford project for 2008 i believe, codename "ORION".

My *** ford a plodding along Happy. They're tightning their belts like Holden and Mitsubishi are. Orion has finally gone thru cause Ford got the huge grant from the government.
Toyota is the only manufacturer in this country thats increasing production and employing more workers.

Lagom · 11-07-2006, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by SPK-383

Also Mitsubishi are reducing their daily build sheet to 15 cars. It seems that the 380 may have been too little, too late. But everyone knew that.

It's down to 50 cars a day, their max is 190.

**Professor Farnsworth** · 11-07-2006, 10:01 PM

i was going to say... 15 is snail pace

vztrt · 11-07-2006, 10:32 PM

Things seem to be getting better with Mitsu, they have had two good months. It's just gonna be interesting when the VE comes out. Hopefully they can find some more export markets.

SPK-250 · 13-07-2006, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Lagom

It's down to 50 cars a day, their max is 190.

Yeah dude! It's 15. I work in despatch for a parts supplier and all i hear about all day is how many cars being made, or more to the point, not being made. It's good though because the slower the car company's go the closer to redundancy i become.

jonk · 13-07-2006, 12:41 AM

It's 50 not 15 a day.