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Wow...

I wonder if the Pontiac brand was doing well in the states??

Pontiac was popular with rental car companies, and old timers. in the 90's besides that it was rubbish

the last decent Pontiac was in the 60-70's,( the Adelaide built car was the best build quality by far)

shame to loose the oz ,local jobs but they did it to themselves, GM just didnt look into the worlds economy and driving factors of smaller cars, they kept building massive fuel guzzlers for soccer moms. now Detroit,Michigan is a ghost town compared to the past.

agree Buick needs to go too, caddy too, just make it one company to reduce the exec overheads,

I'm glad I moved to Oz and not stuck in USA , I feel for my family and friends back there and I'm sure Oz is still in store for more $$$ depression coming soon

you would be mistaken to think its going to get better in a few months...lol

but its a real wakeup call to the world

( the Adelaide built car was the best build quality by far)

Geez.... the US built ones must have been shit heaps then! :P

Holden at Elizabeth haven't been making large numbers of the G8 for last few months anyhow, still any market lost is a huge deal for manufacturing jobs here in Aus

Edited by TALBO

seems companies are using any excuse they can get their hands on to lay off jobs at the moment

peter's icecream here in WA was bought out by cadbury's i believe

all 180 factory staff lost their jobs about the space of a day

i mean REALLY

you buy an icecream factory

and

then

....nobody works there??? who's gonna make the icecream???

but yes

we'll see wat happens with holden

it's a sticky one cos people need to spend money not get into debt and you can't pay cash for a new holden!

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