Meh.
That’s how I feel about most car brands too.Meh.
It’s the pinnacle of economically mass produced battery tech at present.Still wondering if Tesla is really the pinacle of battery tech. I dont know but is it in advance of formula E and F1?
Says you and Tesla?It’s the pinnacle of economically mass produced battery tech at present.
Umm. What are you annoyed about? It’s jsut a car maker testing some new product... Who knows if it’s a pre production car or not, they’re not saying.Says you and Tesla?
Forget it. It was a publicity stunt / development mule.
And I meant it to note that F1 bears as much to bleeding edge production ICE cars as Formula E would to mass produced EVs...Says you and Tesla?
Forget it. It was a publicity stunt / development mule.
Is it all gone? Or have they kept their promise and have design teams still here?Pity we shut down our automotive industry.
Why would you keep a regional design team for a region where your profit margin depends on making as few modifications as possible? I mean, a team of 500 to tune vehicles will never make long-term sense. They will certainly start shutting that down once they think they're safe from a PR perspective.Is it all gone? Or have they kept their promise and have design teams still here?
I think there's still a case for it, Australia has a quite a unique car market. The highest selling cars in Australia are not reflected in other markets. House hold incomes are higher on average and access to finance is pretty easy, designing the cheapest car possible only gets you so far. Look at Hyundai and Kia, they really only started taking off once they started costing a bit more.Why would you keep a regional design team for a region where your profit margin depends on making as few modifications as possible? I mean, a team of 500 to tune vehicles will never make long-term sense. They will certainly start shutting that down once they think they're safe from a PR perspective.
Its only unique in the make up of the models preferred, and in the ability for manufacturers to dump old emissions tech and make more profits.I think there's still a case for it, Australia has a quite a unique car market. The highest selling cars in Australia are not reflected in other markets. House hold incomes are higher on average and access to finance is pretty easy, designing the cheapest car possible only gets you so far. Look at Hyundai and Kia, they really only started taking off once they started costing a bit more.
"are you going to break axles with this thing?!" " probably..."Might need to buy another one & do this:
And Strayan control computer.
Pity we shut down our automotive industry.
Haakon is dead on with his comment that the only special thing about our market is the type of cars we prefer. It's not like other countries don't have bad roads or have particular cost points they prefer. People won't not buy cars because their most preferred alternative isn't available, they will just pick the nearest suitable equivalent, and there are a lot of those out there. In complex industries like car making, you cannot keep your design people separated long-term from your manufacturing, so simply put - these people should be making sure their linkedin is bang up to date.I think there's still a case for it, Australia has a quite a unique car market. The highest selling cars in Australia are not reflected in other markets. House hold incomes are higher on average and access to finance is pretty easy, designing the cheapest car possible only gets you so far. Look at Hyundai and Kia, they really only started taking off once they started costing a bit more.
I don't.People won't not buy cars because their most preferred alternative isn't available,
'Conomy. Product. Both influencing factors.Industry figures show new car sales in February were down a whopping 9.3 per cent on the same month last year.
That backs up a 7.4 per cent slide in January, a 14.9 per cent slump in December and a 3 per cent fall over 2018 as a whole.
Reasonable points, but I was describing the perspective of somebody who has already decided they need to buy a car. Once a buying decision is made, the lack of a perfect option isn't going to stop anybody. But to be honest, the economy is the only decisive factor here - look at the chart below (from Wikipedia). 20 years of consistent growth, and the only really significant dip is in 2008 during the GFC. The announcement and closure of Holden and Ford manufacturing operations in Australia resulted in... steady upward ticking of new car sales. To be honest, I was expecting more of a levelling off.'Conomy. Product. Both influencing factors.