Bob Lutz on Korean Holdens

[Citric GT]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle

If you want to see a REAL Chinese car, this is what you should refer to.
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...783784,00.html

Yuk :

If Falcons and Commodores get built over there I'll buy Camrys and 380s, then if they do I'll get something Japanese

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by Citric XR6

Yuk :

If Falcons and Commodores get built over there I'll buy Camrys and 380s, then if they do I'll get something Japanese

See they will either be built in China (possible), or components sourced from China and the product assembled locally (likely). However the design, market research and development will happen locally. Also for platforms where it suits the market research will be done globally, however don't expect globally to include much of Australia, after all, financially we are 2% of the region which makes up less than 10% of overall revenues based on car sales.

As a result - i'd expect that the I6 not to survive past 2010 due to sheer packaging reasons over the 4cylinder, V6 and turbo combinations of those.