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[Paxton]

Originally Posted by Brazen

I doubt it, the Statesman in China is a very high-end Merc and BMW competitor almost hand-assembled. Over here the Statesman is built alongside tens of thousands Commodores and middle east exports. Holden is in a much much better position to continue building the Statesman and supply the US market than China.

Again, I find myself using this:



Holden isn't in a much better position to do anything. Ford cancelled the Fairlane, not because it wasn't a good car, because it was, but because it was selling in numbers that make local production a loss making venture, and any future development un-viable. Statesman is falling to Fairlane like numbers, and, if they can make if off shore, where they can make money, they will. Don't think that just because Holden make it in Australia today, that they will continue to tomorrow.

By the way, the Buick Park Avenue is not any more hand assembled than your precious Commodore or Cruze is. It is sent to China in a box, and is constructed in much the same way as it would in Australia, just that the component manufacturers closer, and they don't need to go through Australia first.