corporate_whitey wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 7:25pm:


i thought it was Celts who did that? oh I forgot... that was LAST years delusion...

idiot.

corporate_whitey wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 7:34pm:


well if only you could construct a reasonablke argument. that might even be fun. b ut you dont even understand whaqt a tariff is or how it works inthe context of free trade.

you dont even have a drivers license and you probably couldnt fit behind any steering wheel other than the bridge of a ship anyhow.

corporate_whitey wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 7:41pm:


I was right... you DONT understand what a tariff is or how it is applied or the history of them.

go back to promoting celts or whatever else..

Going back a couple of pages, there were some people wondering why Australian car manufactures keep building big cars. There are five costs when it comes to selling cars.

1. Design work - people sitting in offices designing the parts of the cars.

2. Testing - making prototypes, testing them, sending them back to stage 1, etc

3. Materials - buying the plastics, metals, glass, etc that the car will me made from.

4. Manufacturing - the work at the factories of actually making the cars.

5. Selling - Advertising, transporting cars to a show room, having a place to sell them, and the profits the carsales people need to exist.


Stages 1, 2, 4, and 5 are about the same cost irrespective of if the car is a compact 4 cylinder or a massive V8 family car. The only real change in cost is the extra materials the large car needs. But this is in fact only a small cost of the overall price.

This is why Australian car manufactures (Holden, Ford, Toyota, and up until recently Mitsubishi) have made large cars, as it would cost them nearly the same price to make a small car. But people won't pay large car prices for a little four cylinder when they can buy an import for half of that, so the companies are stuck making them big.

Quantum wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 9:05pm:


exactly. the economics of scale are such that local manufacturers will never be able to compete with multi-million selling unit overseas manufacturers with very low labor costs. NEVER. so the only alternatives are to either just throw the car manufacturers away or employ some govt subsidy to support ths single area of manufacture which is still economic - large cars.

I find it remarkable that the very same people who lament the loss of manufacturing in australia would happly send australias largest remaining manufacturers to the wall just because they prsonally dont like large cars.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2012 at 4:19pm:


thats not a 'basic idea', booby. it is an OPINION.

large cars are great and what I and others prefer. we dont lambast your choice for tiny buzz-boxes.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2012 at 4:32pm:


I offered to race my car against your any time booby, but you wussed out. try again loser.

and since I work from home, my environmental impact from my car is vastly lower than you or your girlfeired lastnail driving you multi-coloured panel 20yo commodores.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2012 at 4:46pm:


A) because all you can afford is a dinky buzzbox
b) it drives on petrol not gas you american sychophant
C) you only WISH you drove a hi-powered car instead of your ancient  buzzbox

so... whens the race? you can bring your gf to nail if you want.