Comments on: GM Hummer to sell for $165 million to Chinese

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:25:52 +0000

I didn’t say American consumers, I said Hummer owners. Yes the majority of Americans have no issue with buying a foreign car, but Hummer owners are a special, particularly patriotic bunch.

By: Mazdaman

Mazdaman — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:34:09 +0000

you must be confusing them with the paranoid ford fan boys

By: whatefa

whatefa — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:53:38 +0000

I’d probaby call it a disgraceful comment

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:59:52 +0000

FYI: We don’t hate ALL Japanese cars.. Just Toyota’s – more to the point – their deluded fans; who think that Toyotas are [somehow] more superior to ALL other makes and take any negative comments about Toyota as if we were criticising them personally.. and respond with personal insults and attacks.

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:51:38 +0000

I think the comments about Holden being sold off to the Chineseetc.. shows how ignorant arrogant narrow-minded or short sighted Toyota lovers [who I suspect are the ones making such comments] really are.

It’s as if they think that because they don’t work in the Auto industry; if the local car industry did disappear that they and their jobs would be unaffected

Or that if Holden and Ford left; that somehow Toyota would remain.
Even though Toyo-Oz only replicate cars which are made in a number of other countries.. So if times got tough Toyota could decide to close down Altona

Particularly when you consider one of the reasons GM got in trouble was for having a number of factories duplicating identical cars

I suggest that all you Toyota fans learn or at least try to think a bit more laterlally / think outside the square

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:34:56 +0000

Not necessarily Tom; because the Chinese owners have already said that they will keep production of the Hummers in the USA.

Not only that but over the years there has been an increase in the sales of cars such as Porsches Audis Subarus Mitsubishis – all of which are foreign owned.. which kind of dispels your theory..
I mean a number of car companies design and build their cars primarily for US market

To say that is like saying there should be less BMW or Toyota owners because a number of their cars are made in other [less advanced] countries like South Africa and Thailand

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:22:01 +0000

So despite the fact that they build some of the worlds most desirable powerful cars the Italians should be ashamed of themselves that Lamborghini is owned by a German company?

Or; despite the fact that they build some of the world’s most popular reliable cars the Japanese should be ashamed that Nissan is owned by a French Company?

Get real.. even though ALL of the Local car manufacturers in Australia are foreign owned.. we should be proud that their parent companies believe that its worthwhile to build cars here and are providing jobs to 100s of 1000s of Australians – not to mention the fact that still have a car industry

By: The Salesman

The Salesman — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:47:39 +0000

All new cars will be spelt the same in the new future. C.H.E.A.P. No matter how much we pour into it Aussie manufacturing wont survive against cheap imports.

By: Carfanatic

Carfanatic — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:50:06 +0000

How so? Australian industry has been falling by the wayside for years, government and private investors blow the Aussie trumpet but don’t actively support business nor ideas or inventions. We only reap the rewards of the seeds we have sown.

Perhaps if the Australian public and govenrment got together when Holden are in such a state they need to be sold, we could actually be proud of the company, other than that, chanting how good something is, doesn’t cut it.

When a fully Australian consortium owns Holden then we will have reason to cheer, I doubt that will happen, but chinese ownership can’t be anyworse than U.S ownership. The Chinese are shrewd and would most likely keep the plant here in Aus, keep Aussies employed, so why not wait and see huh?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:28:20 +0000

And probably spell the end to the Asutralian car industry when China moved production off sure.

Thousands of Jobs would be lost directly, not tomention indirectly.

Ford and Toyota would go down soon after becasue they wound be able to maintain the smaller parts manufactures which would close up shop.

Imagain the impact on the enconmy to.

STUPID STATEMENT THERE Carfanatic.