Future Australian Manufacturing possibilities

[LoudPipes]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

Future of Australian manufacturing? I dunno but I've seen this thing in the flesh being designed and tuned since late 2012:

A fantastic bit of local engineering, it’s a shame it looks so ugly.

[Franco Cozzo]

As ugly as it is its still an amazing feat from a dude who was borrowing tools from us from time to time making that thing in a workshop about the size of a double car garage.

We've still got the knowledge and skills to make cars.

Maybe with a fresh start someone could do what the corporates couldn't? No corporate chain of command controlled by overseas top dogs consisting of the pinstripe mafia cutting crew.

Did we ever have an Australian manufacturing industry or was it just on loan from the yanks?

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[LoudPipes]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

As ugly as it is its still an amazing feat from a dude who was borrowing tools from us from time to time making that thing in a workshop about the size of a double car garage.

We've still got the knowledge and skills to make cars.

Maybe with a fresh start someone could do what the corporates couldn't? No corporate chain of command controlled by overseas top dogs consisting of the pinstripe mafia cutting crew.

Did we ever have an Australian manufacturing industry or was it just on loan from the yanks?

I totally agree there is much skill shown in this vehicle but from all my years of being employed at the pointy end of manufacturing I know that all the skill in the world won’t sell a product nobody wants.

If anyone starting out is to have even the slightest chance of succeeding without corporate, government or private investment they will need a product that really sells itself at all levels of the production and sales process and even then it’s very unlikely to get started without strong investment.

In saying that there will be products come out of Australia that will succeed, that success will probably force them off shore to continue their growth but the success will be sporadic and it is most unlikely Australia will ever be a large scale internationally competitive manufacturing nation or at least not in the very long foreseeable future.

Australia needs be innovative in its approach to the future and I don’t know what that will be or the type of industries that will be born from it but the door on competitive manufacturing other than small scale boutique or support manufacturing has closed.

Again on the news tonight there were reports of the further slip in educational standards in Australia compared to our regional neighbours and world ranking which won’t help us in the long run.

Add the slip in those standards to what is already the drain of our intellectual skill to overseas companies where Aussies are forced off shore to chase success then the future is not so bright.

[castellan]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

As ugly as it is its still an amazing feat from a dude who was borrowing tools from us from time to time making that thing in a workshop about the size of a double car garage.

We've still got the knowledge and skills to make cars.

Maybe with a fresh start someone could do what the corporates couldn't? No corporate chain of command controlled by overseas top dogs consisting of the pinstripe mafia cutting crew.

Did we ever have an Australian manufacturing industry or was it just on loan from the yanks?

We would of never had a industry if it was not for the yanks and our Government helping it to all happen and making it work.

GM used the name Holden for a good reason, for one it was an Australian car made for Australia and we even got the Aussie made Chev and Pontiac and Vauxhall's, all only because of Tariffs.

The Tariffs is what made the industry's what they were and without tariffs their never would of been any industry and today it's the same thing.

All the governments were once doing was, looking after the Voters best interest and the nations best interest for the future.

The UN is being set on a path to control the world with it's New World Order.
So your vote now, is not really truly valid anymore, as you must conform to the new god Marxism, where you just become their cattle.

[SumoDog68]

Producing cars from scratch is a tall task but accessories and parts industry is a possibility . Smaller companies , quick to move with trends and flexible in approach have advantage over big players.
ARB is one example , there is another company in Campbellfield set up to produce steel bullbars for new Hilux in big numbers . Redarc or GME are good examples as well . Government should help smaller and medium companies to develop and succeed .

[AUwindsor]

Originally Posted by Express

The first problem is to find a solution to overcome the biggest obstacle of all - Aussies don’t buy Australian.

Aussies have an inferiority complex and a built in conceived notion that imported products offer better pricing, quality, innovation and status.