Most industries are dominated by foreign owned companies anyway, be it IT or financial services – it doesnt mean they are any less important to the health of Australia’s economy.

btw – the BA/BF faclon was reported to contain around 80% local content – although the FG is not that high – it is nowhere near as low as 30%… I think you will find 50-60% is a more accurate figure.

“We don’t discuss that level of detail,” is the stern response from Holden’s spokesman Jason Laird. “We don’t discuss local content”.Every model Commodore – from the VB launched in 1978 to the VT of 1997 – started life as a European Opel sedan that was heavily reworked to become an Australian Commodore.wondering how you could you spent 1 billion for so called a new VE.(wasn’t that all new)..with carried over nosiy imported engine,transmission.of course…we won’t know how much tax payers in it.

GM HOLDEN maintains the VE Commodore is the most Australian car it has ever built after developing the vehicle architecture and designing and engineering the car from a “clean sheet”.

Acknowledging that about A THIRD [that's 33%] of the car’s components, including big-ticket and big-budget items such as engines and transmissions, ARE SOURCED FROM OVERSEAS. GM Holden Managing Director Denny Mooney said: “This car was 100 per cent designed here.

Did you get that 1/3 of the cars components comes from overseas.. which means approximately two thirds [or 66%] of the cars components come from local suppliers; some of which may be foreign owned but have factories in Australia making various parts for the local car companies.. Not just Holden

because there used to be a Federal Government Policy whereby the locally made cars had to be made up of at least 80% locally made parts/components as well as list the names of their suppliers – but that policy no longer exists

Therefore; Holden don’t release what % of their cars is made up of Locally produced parts/components nor do they list the suppliers names.. and as far as I am aware neither do Ford or Toyota they are quite coy about it.

I dont remember even having a conversation with you anyway on this subject, so take your own advice perhaps

What two wrongs are you referring too ?

Try saying that to Dana, Continental, Sumitomo, Autoliv, Venture, Futuris, Plexicor, Bosch, PBR, Sckefenacher to name a few – building everything from IRS modules to stamping tools, Airbags, brakes, interior and exterior mouldings and trim…