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Originally Posted by 70NYD
Prices of cars/anything are dependent on the local Economy, and shipping. With Australians earning much more than Americans on average, Australia having absolutely NO manufacturing capabilities for the automotive industry(driving on the other side of the world doesnt help) and being a fucking island, ofcourse everything here is more expensive, including cars..
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- Australia has a significant Automotive Industry, big enough for it to have 3 design centers and R&D HQ from 3 BIG OEMs.
- Australia has a BIG array of automotive suppliers, with capable skills and knowdledge comparable to other countries' level.
The CONS are.
- Manufacturing Unions, Australian Unions are unrealistic. They are blind to that of other nation's manufacturing policies hence they dont see the negativities they bring to the industry... such as OEMs more incline to make plants over seas... which affects the amount of cars that can be manufactured in Australia.... Manufactured Cars in Australia = cheaper, no import tax etc.
- Australian Labour workers get paid WAY MORE than chinese, thai, south african workers.... big NO NO to OEMs also.
- Australian population and market for cars.... TINY compared to USA, Germany, Japan etc... where its common to see 300K sales of a particular car model... In Australia a successful year would see around 100K cars sold.
- Australians do not get paid much more than Americans.
American average salary/wage (white collar workers) is around 60K USD. Australian (white collar workers) is around 65K AUD. And AUD is pretty much same if not slightly more than USD at the moment.
Average Australian blue collar worker however has higher wage than their American counter parts... due to the requirements of the Unions and such. For example, I know a Road, Construction worker who gets paid 100K AUD... with no college/university qualifications.