Hot damn!

I'll have... that one.. and .. that one.. and...

Remember, we parked in the itchy lot.

When I was working for Toll carting cars out of Hamilton there were at least 450 of those Jumbuck utes that had been sitting there, under hailnets at Prix Car for 3 years. Marshall Batteries used to get called every 6 months or so to replace every single battery due to them just sitting there, unsold and undelivered. It started getting that way with Suzuki's as well, although nowhere near the numbers of Jumbucks.

Cars will be free one day (or sold at a huge loss) and they will make their money on petroleum products (sort of like how consoles make their money with games)

Cars will be free one day (or sold at a huge loss) and they will make their money on petroleum products (sort of like how consoles make their money with games)

or like how razor companies make money on their shavers.

I guess other things must be starting to back up too.
Bikes.. trucks Vans

There was a bit in the Courier Mail about Whitegoods going up 20-30% because of the Aussie dollar. I guess Car Prices would need to climb. Although Aussie made cars wouldnt.
Do we still make Australian Cars ?

Remember, we parked in the itchy lot.

10/10

we should all scrap our current cars and buy brand new ones to help support the economy.

I'll buy one for a dollar.

So our cars to export are now 30% cheaper overseas ?
thats got to be a good thing for the car industry ?

a mate of mine used to move and pick car orders in lots like that.
sounded like a pain in the arse.

Someone buy my car, MY05 sti kgo

apparently nissan at moorooka has sold 12 new GTR's in the 6 odd months they have been selling them in australia ($140000 ea)

sorry infi, s*** ricer cars are here to stay

for 140k it's a bargain
I'd still rather chip in a few more pennies and get the GT3, though

i believe it was henry ford who said 'ill give you the car for free if you promise to buy the spare parts off me only'

Yeah, people forget that a low Aussie dollar is awesome for local businesses - exports sell more because they're more competitive overseas, and imports don't sell because they're more expensive (which also means local products sell more because they're more competitive locally).

However when you see photos like this, you can't help but think it's no wonder GM are going broke when they're over-producing by such large volumes.

i hope motorcycle manufacturers are doing the same... i want cheaper bikes :D

so the f*** what

make them declare & force them to sell their company to whomever can afford it
someone like BMW or Audi might step up and buy it if its cheap enough (which, it will be - because they dont have a choice)

bailing them out is saying its ok to keep doing what you've been doing
if they risk losing the entire company (and with that, their phat corporate wages/private jets etc), I'm sure they'll pay more attention

onya ticcles!

how much casa? how many ks?

And yet Ford Credit is bailing out of Australia, no wonder the dealers were so pissed and saying that they'd be selling Jap cars in the not too distant future instead...

Someone was telling me that Dealers prefer to sell the Finance side for profit and new cars at or near cost. They make their money by getting you into a finance deal.

depends, they can sell a car at cost if they know that the customer is going to service the car through them.. but thats rare that happens

One of my tenants runs a used car yard $5k-$15k and he has been running his own car finance company to get the white trash into deals. Makes a s***load out of it, its a regular paycheck every week, and if they default just take the car back and sell it again.

What a racket.

so true

haha slaps, that poster cracks me up every time I see it. Most of the Americans I know think the bailout is f***ed, but I don't know any of the millions of people in the auto-industry, so they prolly have a different opinion. There was a cool thread on Slashdot the other day (can't remember what it was about) and it turned into a few Americans talking about the difference between American cars and foreign ones - almost without exception they slagged the American cars and just said they were cheap schlocky s*** compared to their Japanese equivalents, or whatever. I think most American cars are hideously ugly anyway, not to mention massively oversized, but that thread turned me off them fo life (except Trans Ams obviously, they're awesome)

no you're not the only one. in fact most of the media elite think it's retarded too. but politics is about winning the votes of people who work in the car industry.

this is holden we're talking about nf

can't really compare auto and manual

my boss has a VE SS and he said he gets up around 19L/100km around town but i think he's a bit of a lead foot off the lights etc but still.

well you can, but in reality they are driven pretty differently..

auto's will always use less imo

well you can, but in reality they are driven pretty differently..

auto's will always use less imo

generally more actually, due to the torque convertor. a lock up torque convertor + stupid amounts of gears helps newer transmissions though.

Yeah fair call for the new super fancy ones.

look up CVT Transmission videos on youtube.

you can buy 5- and 6-speed autos in the new commodores and falcons that beat the pants off manuals efficiency wise.

no they don't. they are basically identical. 100ml of petrol per 100k isn't exactly a pantsing.

($20 a year)

I get about 25L/100Km in my ford

What you drive 100km's then sniff 10L of petrol ?

Thirsty mustangs...

CVT transmissions are old. Didn't x-trail have a cvt ?

close, the murano does

Pretty sure the xtrail in the last year or 2 had cvt ... yours may not have, and it may not now. But reviews like these suggest it was an option.

So what happens if a hail storm comes? Seriously... why would they put all the cars in the weather ...

So what happens if a hail storm comes? Seriously... why would they put all the cars in the weather ...

Write them off. Claim insurance. Easier than selling them.

The only cars that we used to get put under cover after being unloaded from the ships were the super expensive s*** or cars where there was some kind of deal going with the importer to protect them. Needless to say storage costs would of been a lot higher for the protection.

One of the things people never realized about the wharf and the s*** the stevedoring firms sotre is how much money they make doing it. Of course those cost eventually get passed onto the consumer.

Just a quick example for you. We had the boom from a drilling rig sitting in a corner of our yard for about a month. Now this thing was about 30 ft long by 4ft high 4ft wide. Patricks charged the company $14k for the 4 weeks of storage so it's pretty much a licence to print money. Storage of such things incur no real cost on the company storing them so it's money for nothing. Even when you get someone to load it on a truck it takes all of about 10 minutes to do so labor costs are not even worth a mention.

Just another little bit of info. Each and every car we would unload from a ships would cost the importer around $120 each and that is seperate from storage costs. Now when you consider that we could pull 1,200 off a ship (depending on the size of the ship) in a single shift thats a f*** load of cash for just 8 hours.