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Yestruday evening the news came out that Ford Australia would be shutting down at the end of October 2016 and just over 1200 jobs will be lost. The cause of this the lost of sales in Ford cars and the fact the we can't export them. So all the classic Australian cars like the falcon (its like our crown vic) will be no more. to me this is far worse then losing the most popular make of car.


I just thought I would let you guys know about the bad news for the motor industry 

 

link to a news story: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/companies/ford-workers-fear-for-their-futures-after-decision-to-shut-down-geelong-and-broadmeadows-factories-in-2016/story-fni0d54w-1226648895882

 

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You should really edit the title to include Australia.

 

For a second there, I thought the entire company went bust, at which point many puppies and cute kittens would've died

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You should really edit the title to include Australia.

 

For a second there, I thought the entire company went bust, at which point many puppies and cute kittens would've died

there done,,but still it bad news for use down under 

 

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You might want to refine the title further.  I came to the thread expecting to see images of Ford shutting down the country in a hostile takeover.  Quite disappointed :(

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This will also have serious impact on one of the best touring car series currently running, the V8 supercars, nobody know what's going to happen with FPR or DJR, this could mean even more job losses for Australia.

 Not as bad as you think, because last year they started to bringing  in two more car barnds, one of them was i think mercedes-benz which was a bad Idea because the car broke down almost every two races. but yeah, the V8 want be the same without the old Holden VS. Ford.

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 Not as bad as you think, because last year they started to bringing  in two more car barnds, one of them was i think mercedes-benz which was a bad Idea because the car broke down almost every two races. but yeah, the V8 want be the same without the old Holden VS. Ford.

 

I'm not from Australia so I'm not too sure what you guys do there, but from watching Top Gear UK, they've mentioned a festival or something you guys have called Bathurst or something and it was just a bunch of people who support Holden and a bunch of people who support Ford and they got together and raced each other or something. Like I said, I'm not familiar, but what is gonna happen to that?

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That's the Bathurst 1000 race, cracking event, it's uploaded in full on the official V8 Supercars YouTube:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNDlbLpsb0g

 

The Mercedes team is not a full works team yet, however Nissan provides full backup for the teams driving Nissan's. Both models are doing well considering they're running their first season in V8 Supercars

V8SC changed the regulations to this season and one team opted for the Merc and Nissan entered with factory built cars, Holden and Ford is still in the sport with full works team and support to private teams.

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funny thing about the V8 are they are done mostly on city streets

 

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