Weakening of a Nation 12 - Mitsubishi Plant Closes

Mitsubishi Plant to close.

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[hoodlum666]

yer well, you didnt say anything that everyone doesnt already know.. thanks for just repeating what this weeks news paper said, FUCKHEAD.

[AustralianNews]

another foul mouthed labor supporter...and you get to vote...

[chinese5angel]

Come on, aussies,

Mitsubishi closure have nothing to do with whaling issue. Mitsubishi accumulated mount of deficits & gave up. You should care about the Ford & Toyota plant's deficits for your economy.

[AustralianNews]

Not sure what u mean but nobody is saying its a "whale" issue thats y they closed the plant down.

[pi550]

Lets face it..labor voters don't want competition in the workforce.They expect business to change and be competive but not the workforce!!Look forword to high unemployment!! Thats why they want children to stay at school until they are 18...so they do not get counted on the dole figures!!

[MayWeSay]

What do you propose the Rudd government do? They cannot force Mitsubishi to continue manufacturing in Australia. Clearly, with a rapidly changing world, and a highly volatile global economy, occurances like this are par for the course. Seriously, tell me, what could anyone have done?? Howard would not have been able to do a thing to stop the same! Don't kid yourselves!

[SUKKES]

Fuck labor partyyyy when john howard took over he got this country out of a 90 billion dollar debt over the time he was in charge.Not to forget when kevin rudds labor party took over unemployment was at %3.4 and now is at %5.7 it seems liberal party has always kept unemployment down??????

[VonDook]

Incidentally, I see on your channel that you own one. Did you buy it new? How do you like it?

[VonDook]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the Australian public voted with their eyes. It wasn't a bad looking car so much as an uninspiring and bland initial design. Most critics at the time agreed on this point, and I'm not sure why we're debating it.

You can't pin the 380's failure solely on the export issue when sales figures domestically were positively dire as well.

The list of reasons why the 380 failed is long and varied. It's unreasonable to label any as "misinformation".

[Redblower]

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Sales of the 380 had nothing to do with the design, your comment merely liberates uninformed rhetoric.

The failure of the 380 was due to the japanese pulling the pin on the manufacture of the long wheelbase export model.

With our dollar at parity to the US dollar we didn't have a hope in hell of successfully selling to the US.

Please check your facts before posting misinformation, is my point.

[VonDook]

Living only 5 minutes away from the Tonsley Plant, and having the Tons Hotel as my local, I saw the output of the plant slowly decline, and I remember distinctly what a sad day it was when manufacture was halted.

[VonDook]

By "lacklustre" I was referring to the relatively drab design in comparison to its main competitors. By ill-fated, I was referring to the incredibly bad timing (and terrible press) of the release of this car. It seemed doomed to fail before it even arrived in showrooms.

In hindsight, I believe you may be right; the 380 was an excellently manufactured car and may have been a better choice for the majority of people who opted for a Falcon or Commodore considering the GFC.

[Redblower]

"lacklustre" and ill fated design" ? shows what a naiive ill informed critic you and others are of perhaps the best built, most reliable vehicle ever manufactured in Australia. It certainly looks the case that Mitsubishi management was well ahead of the rest of the pack by seeing the impending GFC on the horizon. Just look at GM in the US.

[VonDook]

I think it's important to note that the closure of the Mitsubishi plant was being speculated even before they released the 380 - a lacklustre and ill-fated design - to a bloated market that simply did not need another large car. After the 380 was released, and the sales figures came in, it was simply a matter of time before the closure occurred.

Blaming the closure of the plant on the change to a Labor government is simply not valid in this case.

Andrew.

[dx6789]

I must first say that i like your videos and i do support the liberal party. The Australian car industry has been on the verge of death for a long time, especially Mitsubishi. The only way for the plants to achieve economies of scale is for them to export, which is what Holden are doing with the Monaro and the Utes. But even including this, other countries such as Cina and South Korea have a comparative advantage in producing car so they should produce them and we should import them.