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03/01/21
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Originally posted by moorookamick
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Successive Governments erred by not taking equity in the car manufacturers in lieu of State aid.
At least the taxpayer would now own the realestate..eh?
IMO, Aus still has an opportunity to manufacture specialist vehicles in the top end price range in low volume
such as HD 4x4 for hot desert conditions ; military style units with no plastic shit @ say $200K/pop.
Also we have an opportunity to manufacture an Aussie super iconic sports car with the customer's
choice of powertrain . EG: Benz, BMW etc. This, IMO, could be priced in the $300K to $400K price range.
Produced in say just less than 100 per year per model variant, these would not need crash barrier testing.
If such projects qualified for Government R&D funds, then the condition ought to be that the brand is inalienably
100% Aussie owned; otherwise if successful, the multinationals would gobble it up and spirit it overseas.
All IMO only
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just in case you haven't seen this - you might be interested
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perhaps just have a quick look at 30.30 on for a few minutes just to scope in Lidar (I've built an autonomous vehicle and played with Lidar- about $1000 Au per sensor from memory) -- so, this is enlightening -- again - 30.30
all of this stuff -------- I think we need to be looking far far far more technologically advanced than building a few kit cars and the like