Comments on: Australia Is The Most Powerful Place On Earth

By: James Cortez

James Cortez — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 02:14:07 +0000

Say what? Australian cars? Should have been Australian assembled cars. Engine and transmission (example: Holden) come from here.

By: James Cortez

James Cortez — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 02:12:30 +0000

Man, when you stated “Then also our own” you have got to think twice if not a million times. Australia assembled cars. Example: Holden. Engine and transmission were NOT Australian made. Tremec, Muncie LS are all made here not downunder. Try to make a distinction between assembling cars and producing your own cars from A to Z.

By: right

right — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 01:44:11 +0000

Yeah, that “barra” literally says intech on the rocket cover

By: braad

braad — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:32:08 +0000

To be fair, I never said Australian cars were of necessarily high quality, just generally higher than American, especially with the budgets/markets involved.
It’s reasonably easy to explain why they stopped. A little population making good (cheap) cars in a market of 24million, with no/limited export opportunities (RHD and being literally on the other side of the world from Europe and America) compared to cars from Asian countries who could produce quality at a lower cost. Our Tax and import ruling changes hurt our market, there was less reliance on locally produced objects, the market opened up, our local journalists comparing our cars against twice-the-price rivals (don’t fret, they were European, not American), fleet sales being forced to share the love between all car manufacturers, and Australians having an inferiority complex assuming imported is better.

Our market was a little mix of British engineering, American power, and began to adopt Euro refinements (no, they weren’t at the same level, but our cars cost half the price). The cars were often fun, reliable, easy to fix, comfortable, quick, quiet and (for their size/weight/power) efficient.
However, why would Europe take our cars when they can pay for their own for way less than we pay for them? Or, why would Americans take our cars (despite our joint love of stupid power) when they have to pay over to get our cars when their own are cheaper?

By: Dino Dalle Carbonare

Dino Dalle Carbonare — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:10:59 +0000

No we weren’t, were off to drive a pair of Lexus

By: John B

John B — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 21:55:33 +0000

I have some pretty big stones in my trousers, but I will pass on that one haha. Take one to the Isle of Man TT!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:18:11 +0000

Firstly HP is used just as often as KW when referring to power out put.
Australia stop making the Falcon and Commodore because they sales numbers weren’t there to make it viable. I’ve luckily not had much to do with American cars as they aren’t very popular here. A few 300C’s Jeep’s are pretty popular though. And the mustang seems to be selling well here. But in general the price and quality of the US stuff is pretty lacking. I’m not sure why Americans car companies can’t make a nice interior.

By: James Cortez

James Cortez — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 07:33:06 +0000

Ford has numerous design and engineering center Scattered all over the world and Australia happens to be one of them but the ‘engineering brain’ will always be in Dearborn. or somewhere domestic. Question: Why did both ‘Holden’ and Ford quit ‘making cars’ downunder if the cars they produced were of high quality?

By: Braad

Braad — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 04:25:01 +0000

We get American, UK, Japanese, Korean, European cars here. Then also our own. Pretty doubtful you’d find a car person who has sampled them all and would still think North American cars are generally better designed/superior to Australian. When you throw in the budgets used, and the gulf in quality is quite embarrassing.

Also, as Dino hinted at, it’s very interesting that the Ford big wigs kept the engineering section open in Victoria when Australians are apparently only good enough to follow LEGO-like instructions. Maybe they see a future in metric?

By: Braad

Braad — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 04:01:31 +0000

Don’t Japan use ps?