Ford has just said thats it for car manufacturing in Australia. Its shutting down by 2016. No more Fords will be made in Australia.. End of an era and so many people will lose their jobs and the follow on industries.. Sad.



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Hate to hear that,I am suprised we have any manufacturing plants here.

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Yes sad end to an era, even worse i believe we may be getting ford mondeo,s as imports after that? I guess time will tell.

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I did get told yesterday from one of the product engineering guys that they will continue after 2016, so at least we'll still have a hand in design & either Broadmeadows or Geelong's factory will be used as the import base, im betting it will be Geelong as the port is right behind the factory & Broadmeadows is miles away from Melbourne's ports. On a personnel note im happy product engineering wont be closing as I would have lost a good chunk of work.

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