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Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« on: Feb 6, 2008, 05:23PM »
What are people's views.

Your car may be able to go faster.
But I can go any where. except into a garage, underground carpark, bridge...

2 sticks and manual locking hubs. have to get out to drive it around
Good old Nissan.

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #1 on: Feb 6, 2008, 05:37PM »
Meh. They brought it on themselves really.

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #2 on: Feb 6, 2008, 05:37PM »
Keep in mind though that i do feel sorry for those that lost their job out of this.

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #3 on: Feb 6, 2008, 05:48PM »
I think they were ignorent. RWD sedans are what the average family wants. Better for towing the boat, caravan etc.

I think the Australian goverment has alot to do with the blame, 60-80% of Goverment sedans are Falcons and Commodore's. The goverment should have leased alot more 380's. The same can be said for back in the 1990's when Nissan Australia was struggling.
Your car may be able to go faster.
But I can go any where. except into a garage, underground carpark, bridge...

2 sticks and manual locking hubs. have to get out to drive it around
Good old Nissan.

KA's are the shit. According to all the info on the site, they are better then sliced bread and thats saying something.

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #4 on: Feb 6, 2008, 08:01PM »
their products were never the top of the line, and they were never thought of the most reliable.

I'm not gonna miss 'em, pity about the jobs though.

It's cheaper for countries to build cars in Africa or South America now days and have them shipped over.
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #5 on: Feb 6, 2008, 08:05PM »
You serious?

Magna interiors and the car themselves in general are way better engineered than a commodore or a falcon in my opinion.

So all this EVO business is going down the drain now? Fun for some modifying business' out there...
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #6 on: Feb 6, 2008, 08:14PM »
every evo x is built in japan.

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #7 on: Feb 6, 2008, 08:15PM »
Magna interiors and the car themselves in general are way better engineered than a commodore or a falcon in my opinion.
Spent too much on higher quality, and as we can tell, majority of the population cant tell quality when it hits them in the face... i.e. the engineering in the mitsu's.
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #8 on: Feb 6, 2008, 08:19PM »
every evo x is built in japan.

I meant the sales of the cars themselves, are they still going to be available?
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #9 on: Feb 6, 2008, 08:29PM »
Yes, they will still be available, just notihng will be made here any more, all imports.
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #10 on: Feb 6, 2008, 08:32PM »
I get it now,

Some jellydick told me mistu is COMPLETELY pulling away from AUS, Would be quite interesting to see what imports they decide to bring in now though!
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #11 on: Feb 6, 2008, 08:41PM »
Nothing will change, if it weren't in the news, you wouldn't even know that they were shutting down.
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #12 on: Feb 6, 2008, 08:51PM »
It sucks. It's going to cost Mitsubishi a shitload if Mike Rann has his way. All the money the SA Government put in to the new plant - and now it's closing - he said that the gov't would be exploring avenues to get it back. That was about 35 Million.

I hate that everything's becoming centralised, homogenised and bland. There's precious little difference between competitors cars now (Falcon/Commodore/380, Yaris/Fiesta/Colt) and it's just becoming a bland world where it's all the same shit.

1,000 jobs is a hell of an amount of people that are going to have to find new jobs - probably not in Adelaide. It's money over people once again.

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #13 on: Feb 6, 2008, 09:15PM »
Mitsubishi has already said that they will give all the 'prop up' money back to the government, hopefully it will go towards finding these people new jobs, or fitting out the factory for production of something else so that the workers can stay.
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #14 on: Feb 6, 2008, 09:25PM »
You serious?

Magna interiors and the car themselves in general are way better engineered than a commodore or a falcon in my opinion.

So all this EVO business is going down the drain now? Fun for some modifying business' out there...

I will second what Chris said. The Magna's were built way better then Commodores and Falcon's. The lack the RWD towing capacity and servicing was dearer. The V6 engines would be a bitch to work on. If I was after a family car I would buy a Magna or Maxima anyday over a Falcon and Commodore or Aurion or Camry.
Your car may be able to go faster.
But I can go any where. except into a garage, underground carpark, bridge...

2 sticks and manual locking hubs. have to get out to drive it around
Good old Nissan.

KA's are the shit. According to all the info on the site, they are better then sliced bread and thats saying something.

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #15 on: Feb 6, 2008, 11:19PM »
Its not the same, but just as annoying as the ford inline 6 plant shutting its doors in my home town, but its all changing and you have to change with it.

Mitsubishi is on a winner with its new lancer, great looking little car thats well priced.  Its 4WD's sell well, so lets see that they decide to do in the future.
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #16 on: Feb 6, 2008, 11:50PM »
Not too sure if I agree with the govt. giving $50 million to find the workers a new job. It's a nice gesture but a bit unfair on people that have lost their jobs elsewhere. But everyone knows what a heartless bastard I am  ::)

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #17 on: Feb 7, 2008, 03:50AM »
Not too sure if I agree with the govt. giving $50 million to find the workers a new job. It's a nice gesture but a bit unfair on people that have lost their jobs elsewhere. But everyone knows what a heartless bastard I am  ::)

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #18 on: Feb 7, 2008, 09:59AM »
You serious?

Magna interiors and the car themselves in general are way better engineered than a commodore or a falcon in my opinion.

I never compared them to a falcon or a commodore. I said that Mitsubishi's products were never top of the line or the most reliable. Toyota and even Nissan are more reliable, Subaru are considered better cars.

As my post also said, they will probably find it cheaper to build their cars elsewhere and bring them here.. without much of a drop of quality.. BMW make their cars in Africa and Mercedes makes theirs in Mexico and they're all quality built.. Its just Australian workers like to get paid decent amounts of money..
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #19 on: Feb 8, 2008, 08:06AM »
gee's you can throw $50 mil at me you want... i didn't see a cent when my position was no longer needed

you used to work there?

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #20 on: Feb 9, 2008, 12:18AM »
you used to work there?

haha no, i should have been more specific on that one...

i still don't think this is gonna have that big effect apart from the people who have lost jobs, the cars really wern't anything to special. i'd considered buying one but FWD just turned me off them, the interiors were average and apparently easy to blow engines in...
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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #21 on: Feb 9, 2008, 03:06PM »
Im with you Dave, mitsu oz just never got the message that no one really wants a large fwd car as a family tractor, and its cost them.

Its yet another strike for Rann being a dick in my books. If a company cant make it on their own, why should tax payers prob them up? Sure the jobs were useful for the local economy, but it was always just delaying the inevitable.

And the unions have a lot to answer for as well. The thing that is killing the Automotive industry in Australia is the conditions workers get/expect! Where else in Australia can an unskilled worker get $45,000pa for tightening 4 bolts of a seat into the car?! Unions have driven wages and conditions so high, they have priced themselves out of a job. Any other industry would only get $25-30,000 p.a. for unskilled work (hospitality, bricky labourer etc). This has made it so unnatractive to build cars in australia and why without major export contracts (like holden have) its just not viable. The unions have f**ked it up for everyone working in the industry, so serves them right! (i stole that from another forum but it sums up my thoughts well)

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Re: Mitsubishi Australia - Factory to shut down
« Reply #22 on: Feb 11, 2008, 11:47PM »

yer they will still  be available. but the japs will jack up the price for spare car parts for them  like they did with car battery's (stock market if you don't know thats why some metals are dearer e.g get about 30 dollars for 1 cat converter)


might be going of topic   but want to get my cents in

most of the workers might get sent to holden as there working on a new car  only know because holden is just a block away  but most if they do get sent to holden a lot might get fired from holdens if some get sent there as they fire when there is no new car coming out.

it sucks tho because  a lot of people have to do four years courses to work there like holdens. but sucks because most Australians are put out of work because it is cheaper  to take there  jobs over seas  where  they pay people 10 cents or so but when most cars get imported here they charge like a wounded bull. but most likely they will go to holdens as i believe there going to start making the motors here in sa at the  Elizabeth south factory .
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