BREAKING: Holden to be retired at end of year.

[4Vman]

It does make me laugh the whole "Holden is Australian and Ford is NOT" argument.

Falcon was pretty much 100% Australian after XA, Australian designed from XR. Commodore was an Opel, screwed together in Australia with Kingswood engines and gearboxes... Then came VL and even the engine was made by someone else.

Just think of the money they flushed away with the Daewoos, and the dithering between Opels and Daweoos for their smaller cars.

For all this doom and gloom, Ford is expanding (and has more, higher paid employees now than it did in the 90s) and GM is walking away. I wonder if Opel (or Vauxhall) will re-appear and try to move in on the small car market, sold through Peugeot dealers.

The caveat to all this is the share price of Ford....

While we feel safer they are in deep poo over there too.