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Old 22-04-2010, 10:44 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by bobthebilda
it may not be stock levels, they could have just realised that making less cars is probably more profitable than making alot of cars for $30000 and then selling them to fleets at $25000. Far better to lose $5000 on 1000 cars, than to lose $5000 on 5000 cars.
Strange as it seems, Holden could be in a similar position to Ford where
rebalancing the line to lower rates is to expensive and time consuming.

As Ford finds adding a Saturday or two is more practical, so to it seems
Holden feels dropping a shift every week does similar for them...
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