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Well, it's more like the problem is that governments keeps encouraging people to spend by giving yearly tax cuts, baby bonuses, no stamp duty for new home buyers, spending more in the budgets and pushing up costs, etc etc... then coupled with low unemployment, a rising stock market, tax breaks on superannuation and the resource boom, of course people have money to burn and that is what's causing so much price inflation. What makes it even worse is the banks loan out money to anyone and everyone, especially people it knows it shouldn't be giving more money to, causing credit bubbles for a lot of people who can't repay the money they've borrowed not only to buy rising house prices, but for things like TV's and cars and other luxury goods, and they have to pay even more interest on repayments they can't make. Companies are just as much to blame as all levels of governments (from local to state and federal) and even individuals for not saving and just persisting to spend all on growing credit. Plus, the lower Australian dollar making it easier to import more goods and spend even more money, then lets not forget the price of petrol, the drought pushing up prices on agricultural goods, a growing population with little increase in housing causing the housing problems and pushing up rent/land prices...

Anyway, that's my lecture on economics :)

Spot on.

I can buy a 42 inch plasma tv for under a grand yet neccessities in life are costing more and more.

When people get extra money instead of putting it into their morgages they bprrpw again to buy more houses. Who honestly needs more than one house?

Thats capitilism working for you "The market will always right itselff" yeah right.

Anywho was a good engine, and said to see them close. This move to making the focus here is interesting as well. The margins in small cars are so low. Look at how competibtve the small car segment is. Yet they cost hardly any less to manufacture from what i've read. Wouldn't it be cheaper to continue getting them from South Africa?

And thats my hot tip over the next 10 to 20 years you'll see africa start to become economic force in the world in manufacturing.

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Anywho was a good engine, and said to see them close. This move to making the focus here is interesting as well. The margins in small cars are so low. Look at how competibtve the small car segment is. Yet they cost hardly any less to manufacture from what i've read. Wouldn't it be cheaper to continue getting them from South Africa?

And thats my hot tip over the next 10 to 20 years you'll see africa start to become economic force in the world in manufacturing.

Yes cost of manufacturing are not dissimilar its the parts cost that drives up the price difference between an entry model and a luxury model. Cheaper from South Africa? Not very likely. The way I look at it China and India will be the biggest automotive manufacturing countries in world before anyone else. In fact China already is the second largest after the US.

Nissan don't produce the RB series engines anymore. Nor the SR20's and VG30's.

The in-line 6 has been replaced with the VQ series V6.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Just FYI nissan ran inline 6's in the skylines from 1969 to 2002. And as mentioned shortly after V6 have been selected based on emissions and crumple zones.

The point being that the I6 was the highest level performance engine through then (L20-24, RB) with the exception of the DR30s.

Ohh maybe I misunderstood, do you mean is that why the VG30 and SR20 have been ditched? well the SR20 was lost really only because of emissions, although I can't work out why they chose not to do more with the SR20VET. The VG30 is from what I understand a fairly direct ancestor of the VQ series which are still used today.

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The point being that the I6 was the highest level performance engine through then (L20-24, RB) with the exception of the DR30s.

Ohh maybe I misunderstood, do you mean is that why the VG30 and SR20 have been ditched? well the SR20 was lost really only because of emissions, although I can't work out why they chose not to do more with the SR20VET. The VG30 is from what I understand a fairly direct ancestor of the VQ series which are still used today.

Yeah I understand. The I6 and RB's and SR20's nissan produced were ditched because they couldn't meet the new emission standards. Even though they were the best motors that were produced by them.

Yeah I understand. The I6 and RB's and SR20's nissan produced were ditched because they couldn't meet the new emission standards. Even though they were the best motors that were produced by them.

Well they cant be that good if they dont meet the emission standards... Sorry to point that out to everyone.

Well they cant be that good if they dont meet the emission standards... Sorry to point that out to everyone.

Its because emission requirements got a whole lot stricter not that the engines were no good..

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