Re: Are we Witnessing the Last Years of Ford Australia?
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when I left 18 months ago, there were really only a couple of big development programs in progress, but after that not much. SuperDuty and PHEV have now been announced and are in launch phase, so what does that leave for the development team? I'd have to say probably not much. There are always the facelift programs, and emissions upgrade programs, but outside that I don't know. With relatively little content, it doesn't need a massive local team to run any of these.
A huge amount of work has already been outsourced to low cost labour countries, and a huge amount of skill and knowledge has been let go over the last two years. I hope I'm wrong, but I really don't give the development team locally more than a couple more years before the lights are turned off.
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