And that’s something to be proud of? A Pilbara Iron train driver with no tertiary qualifications earns over $200K, and works half the hours you work.

“The Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo is sophisticated”

So how come you can’t get passenger’s side electric seating… even a Calais V has those…

The GM of the Budweiser brewery in the USA says “I’ll have a budweiser because it is the King of Beers”
The GM of the Carlsberg brewery from Europe says “I’ll have a Carlsber becauseit is the original beer”
The GM of the Carling Brewery from England says “I’ll have a Carling lager because it reminds me of Home”
Then finally the GM of the Carltion Brewery says “I’ll have a drink of water.”

The GMs from the other brewerises turn around with a shocked look on their faces…

The GM from Carlton United then says “…well if you’re not going to have a beer neither am I!”

its XXXX or go home up here

you are right on tooheys though.

everywhere through europe that i travelled had Fosters advertised as Australias beer, i hardly ever even see it on tapo or at the bottle-o let alone know anyone who drinks it

I mean Queenslands XXXX is owned by Lion Nathan [from NZ]as is Tooheys [in NSW] as is West End [in SA]… and most of the people I know in SA hate West End they prefer Coopers..
Same ggoes in NSW – not many of my mates over there drink Tooheys either; they mostly prefer a Case O’ Carlton…. Me I prefer Beez Neez;

I don’t know anyone who dirnks Fosters – though most people form overseas seem to think we do

CarAdvice Reader,
the thing is, if toyota go bad downunder, they will pull the pin.
toyota wont let a worthless business plot play out for years.
toyota is purely business focused

I drink Becks and Asahi, I have a degree and Im an IT contractor with a 6-figure income. The Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo is sophisticated, bang for buck it WALLOPS any euro car you care to mention. The latest FG Falcon turbo beats the M3 for fuel economy too!

Ill pass on any over-priced Audi any day…

Whereas whilst the Falcon and Commodore may be exclusively and uniquely Australian – Ford and Holden have had significant input into future overseas projects etc as they have considerable experience and expertise in designing engineering and building RWD cars which their parent companies have started to take advantage of

If Toyo-Oz was so important to Toyo-kyo then why weren’t Toyo0Oz able to [let alone brave enough] to put forward a proposal to Toyo-kyo to design and build a RWD car or something which would have been more of a direct rival to the Commodore or Falcon ; a V8 supercar competitor as well as become a the basis for other Toyotas overseas etc?

Last year all those lay-offs at Ford.
Australian Ford v6 contract ends.
GM lost alot of OS deals to USA with utes etc.
No investment or know-how of newer fuel saving technologies.
Various parts manufactures close down due to parts now being made in China.
Ford finance shedding hundreds of jobs.

Yes the Australian car industry is in excellnt condition…
Ill take two please….

Australian tastes are becoming for sophisticated, these cars don’t fit that bill.
People drink Asahi and Becks these days… XXXX just doesn’t cut it nomore,