Its the ludicrous and self serving blame game with no substantiation needed, all you need is the media report suspicion and innuendo.
As Holden is still manufacturing the full story and grit of the behind closed door conflicts and disagreements have yet to see the light of day. These story's will appear once the inevitable wind-up and change over occurs with many of the design and development management moving on.
I realise many people take their support of Holden much like many do with a football team, however that's not my nature because I call it as I see it. It's my opinion, I just choose not to blindly BS that a car is good just because of a badge. The last thing I do is go in with my eyes half closed. Now in saying that anyone who has read what I have said on my favourite Holden's the A9X hatch or HK GTS will know I regularly call them a POS because they are in so many aspects. (more so and logically now we are in 2013 of course)
But Christ all mighty pull the covers off them on any day and I still get a chubby. They look bloody amazing and in 2013 its no issue for me to make them stop, go and turn far better than any new 2013 performance car. However if the car is butt ugly and plastic like any dunny ....... then its clear that no amount of dramatic plastic surgery is ever going to make a dunny look good.
It will forever remain that boring fat plastic pig faced taxi with a half ass boob job. (sorry dunny owners but that is imo and its my money) My attitude is like say me looking at Miranda Kerr, (far too young for me but) even if I was in my 20's I would just keep walking and not look at her twice even in a bikini. Horses for courses on the criteria of looks.
I am just not a 4 door guy of any make, brand, style or shape, it has nothing to do with it being a dunny or a Ferrari, Lambo or Hyundai. I disliked the big fat whales from HQ-WB for the same reason as the dunnys, much like I don't like the look of the taxi A9X or L34. That's not to say I like all 2 doors either as cars like the R35 might go very well but talk about a hell of an eyesore to look at.
I am by the same token NOT THE REGULAR CAR MARKET. I am that 0.001% of people that are far better to hotrod a car than buy a commonly available vehicle. In all of this thread I don't profess to have any personal insight into why buyers buy what they do because I wouldn't buy 99.999999% of those cars. But I do know business and the car business is only about one thing THE NUMBERS.
The behind closed door story of what happened here to Holden might make for a far better read than many are currently thinking. I think 4 Corners in 2017 might be able to do this story some justice with some teeth not this other media blame game. The issue is an issue of decades of culture in all the taxpayer handouts and protectionism since manufacturing started in Oz. This will go right to the top both in Government , Holden and in Detroit and I would say this should have died at least by 2005.
Edited by LXSS350, 17 December 2013 - 04:53 PM.
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