Re: Commodore SS off to America

[Ext User(Clockmeister)]

"D Walford" <walford@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
news:45a31754$0$509$61c65585@uq-127creek-reader-03.brisbane.pipenetworks.com.au...
> Marco wrote:
>> http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/holdens-cat-out-of-bag--ss-off-to-america/2007/01/08/1168104921065.html
>>
>> 'Unofficially' announced at the Detroit show, about 30,000 SS models a
>> year to be sold as the Pontiac G8.
>>
>> (Where are all the people who were saying the big Aussie car is a dying
>> dinosaur now?)
>>
> 30,000 cars might be significant here but in the USA its a very very small
> number and its hardly significant.
>
>> Stupid name, but hopefully a successful deal.
>
>
> It must be successful if Holden is to survive, they can't survive on local
> sales only.
>

They're not, their export business is ever expanding and doing very well.

[Ext User(Toby Ponsenby)]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:08:31 +0900
"Clockmeister" <whowhere@andwhy.com> blathered on:

>
> "D Walford" <walford@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
> news:45a31754$0$509$61c65585@uq-127creek-reader-03.brisbane.pipenetworks.com.au...
> > Marco wrote:
> >> http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/holdens-cat-out-of-bag--ss-off-to-america/2007/01/08/1168104921065.html
> >>
> >> 'Unofficially' announced at the Detroit show, about 30,000 SS
> >> models a year to be sold as the Pontiac G8.
> >>
> >> (Where are all the people who were saying the big Aussie car is a
> >> dying dinosaur now?)
> >>
> > 30,000 cars might be significant here but in the USA its a very
> > very small number and its hardly significant.
> >
> >> Stupid name, but hopefully a successful deal.
> >
> >
> > It must be successful if Holden is to survive, they can't survive
> > on local sales only.
> >
>
> They're not, their export business is ever expanding and doing very
> well.
>
>
>

Opinion piece.
(Fuck, what else if there on Usenet anyway)

It'll be extremely interesting to see if the Yankees actually like the
Commode.
IMHO it's a very different device to their home market stuff.
And it's getting very good indeed at what it does.
Hell, the current Calais actually looks the goods, IMHO.
Whether that difference translates to sales

Falcon, OTOH would probably be a little less confronting over there.

But what this proves more than anything else is that the Australian
worker has been utterly shafted this past decade and a half.


--
some stupid sig...

[Ext User(Toby Ponsenby)]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:09:33 +1100
D Walford <walford@iprimus.com.au> blathered on:

> Toby Ponsenby wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:08:31 +0900
> > "Clockmeister" <whowhere@andwhy.com> blathered on:
> >
> >> "D Walford" <walford@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
> >> news:45a31754$0$509$61c65585@uq-127creek-reader-03.brisbane.pipenetworks.com.au...
> >>> Marco wrote:
> >>>> http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/holdens-cat-out-of-bag--ss-off-to-america/2007/01/08/1168104921065.html
> >>>>
> >>>> 'Unofficially' announced at the Detroit show, about 30,000 SS
> >>>> models a year to be sold as the Pontiac G8.
> >>>>
> >>>> (Where are all the people who were saying the big Aussie car is a
> >>>> dying dinosaur now?)
> >>>>
> >>> 30,000 cars might be significant here but in the USA its a very
> >>> very small number and its hardly significant.
> >>>
> >>>> Stupid name, but hopefully a successful deal.
> >>>
> >>> It must be successful if Holden is to survive, they can't survive
> >>> on local sales only.
> >>>
> >> They're not, their export business is ever expanding and doing very
> >> well.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> > But what this proves more than anything else is that the Australian
> > worker has been utterly shafted this past decade and a half.
> >
> >
> How do you work that out?
> Automotive assembly workers in Australia on average get paid
> reasonably well considering they are "unskilled".
> They get training in the form of the "Automotive Industry
> Certificate", once completed which most can do in less than 2 yrs
> they are on more than $20.00 ph for day shift which is excellent
> money for what they do plus they get very good discounts on new cars
> and parts.
>
>
>
> Daryl

Think subbies.


--
some stupid sig...