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Originally Posted by mountainstar
Goes back to the AU Falcon. Ford Australia had the chance to engineer it for left hand drive but feared once it was left drive capable, Ford USA would seize on it and either see it as competition that needed killed off or take over the platform completely and make it in the USA making Ford Australia irrelevant. In the end, it didn't matter, Ford Australia and the Falcon ended up as an unprofitable outlier in Ford's worldwide scheme and it all got shut down anyways.
Sad deal for Australia to lose it's unique cars and manufacturing capability but in this global world it's manufacturing and cars were going to be at risk as they were owned by global brands. Perhaps if brands such as Holden were owned by Australians and sold unique Australian cars worldwide, things would have been different.
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Ford Australia has said all along they never had the manufacturing capacity here to build for the American (LHD) market - they made no secret of that
However whey the Barra was never picked up overseas is strange