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It will be interesting if they have bought the tooling with the Thai plant, because then the Great Wall, will be a re badged Holden Colorado wont it.
It will be interesting if they have bought the tooling with the Thai plant, because then the Great Wall, will be a re badged Holden Colorado wont it.Anyone who is concerned with their personal safety and that of their passengers would not buy a Great Wall. They have abysmal crash safety standards and are cheap but nasty.
Maybe that will change but I'll be steering well clear of them for some time.
Coal or any mining activity as automatisation could see 12 to 50 people run a full scale mine, most located in a city office 1000kms away, first in Brisbane or Perth, 10y later in Saigon or Mumbai with a dozen max repair team on siteIt's rather depressing and self-destructive when people hang their hopes on coal mining for a job (while we are selling our water and soil to foreign interests).
How Australian's think the rest of the world owe them a living is besides me. What gets me though is that the educated class have sold out their morals and the future of the less fortunate for a few bucks.
Not that the big accounting firms that have now replaced our public service in policy formulation would agree with that!
In the 1960's everyone said the same about Jap crap, in the 1990's everyone said who the hell would buy a Hyundai piece of crap.Friend bought a second hand great wall and it's going pretty good. He treats it like dirt as well.
Probably worth posting this article here, as well as the Holden thread, as it highlights what a few of us are saying about the difficulty maintaining Australia's current living standards.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/how-h...-wall-in-australia-123267.html?trackLink=SMH3
From the article:
Thailand – dubbed the Detroit of south-east Asia – will be a manufacturing hub from which it can drive that growth.
It will also see Great Wall building cars in the same place Toyota, Isuzu, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Mazda, and Ford produce their dual-cab utes, allowing the Chinese brand to tap into Thailand's vast supply chain and manufacturing knowledge.
Thailand used to be a cheap destination, it isn't anymore our $ has slid about 30% against the Baht in the last 10 years, meanwhile we think we are going to change the World.
I think people are in for a big shock, IMO it will be our World that changes.
Correct, the difference is since our $ was floated, it has remained fairly steady against the U.S and U.K pound over the period, against poorer economies we have fallen dramatically.About the same as it slid against the US$
Pre GFC the Aussie dollar would have been even stronger against the Baht, even against NZ our currency has weakened.Your talking just post GFC about a country that come out of it pretty much unscathed!
The Aussie peso was worth more than the US so now it’s dropped about the same level as the Baht
It's rather depressing and self-destructive when people hang their hopes on coal mining for a job (while we are selling our water and soil to foreign interests).
How Australian's think the rest of the world owe them a living is besides me. What gets me though is that the educated class have sold out their morals and the future of the less fortunate for a few bucks.
Not that the big accounting firms that have now replaced our public service in policy formulation would agree with that!
Pre GFC the Aussie dollar would have been even stronger against the Baht, even against NZ our currency has weakened.
Just look up historical data comparing relative exchange rates.
I'm just pointing out our economy is changing to a materials/primary producing economy, from a mixed base economy. If it continues our dollar will continue to slide against Countries with a manufacturing based economy, as that is what value adds and increases productivity.
Just my opinion.
I went to Thailand in the 1990's the exchange rate was 34baht to the dollar, now the rate hangs around 20baht to the dollar.Maybe you should check the historical data with the baht
I went to Thailand in the 1990's the exchange rate was 34baht to the dollar, now the rate hangs around 20baht to the dollar.
O.k next subject.Let me guess about the time of the Asian financial crisis
Coal or any mining activity as automatisation could see 12 to 50 people run a full scale mine, most located in a city office 1000kms away, first in Brisbane or Perth, 10y later in Saigon or Mumbai with a dozen max repair team on site
so much safer, and who would want to work in 45C ...the Big Miners will tell you
One aspect of full automation is simplicity, removal of all safety systems etc overall simpler autonomous systems will require less maintenance and more a custom one based on actual need not a time table.Although there is never ending shutdown maintenance
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