Holden means a great deal to China

[OzJavelin]

Originally Posted by akiklovich

The build quality will never be the same because the chinese steel manufacturing plants are cheap as well.... It all starts from the raw materials. If they are not as good, the product made by them will be rubbish too.

As far as I understood, most big-name Yanky aftermarket crankshaft "manufacters" get all their raw forgings from China, and just send then back to the good-ole US-of-A for machining? As long as they get their processes correct and stick to them, there isn't really a reason why Chinese assembled products would be worse than "Western" assembled ones. The problem however seems to be corruption at govt/organisational levels .. everything is made as cheap as possible, regardless of safely, legal-issues, etc ..

Who really wants to say that a Chinese worker is less-capable than as Australia one? I'd doubt the average "Joe" slapping together Falcons in Broadmeadows is any more skilled than the average "Lee" slapping together Statesmans in Beijing ..

However I do not condone this. It's the continuing slide of Australia manufacturing. Aeronautics is basically gone, electronics is basically gone, now automotive is under threat. Then it will be heavy industry .. we'll be back to farming and tourism. Maybe Paul Keating was right?