New Purpose For Holden Factory

[1970XW351]

As detailed by Drive..

https://www.drive.com.au/news/former...m-farm-report/

To be perfectly honest, the article is a bit of a letdown. I was hoping for more information on the mushrooms instead of a recap of holden's history...
2/10, would not recommend.

Cheers, Tony

[Franco Cozzo]

Perfect - Holden been treating Australians like mushrooms for ages.

Feeding us **** and keeping us in the dark, this is poetic

[Tonz]

only problem is mushrooms dont like ****, they prefer a very specialised compost. I used to work at one down south in a previous life

[Bossxr8]

The sh*t gets sent in rather than sent out now.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by franco cozzo

perfect - holden been treating australians like mushrooms for ages.

Feeding us **** and keeping us in the dark, this is poetic

Or FOSAKITD

[Yellow_Festiva]

Wasn't it sold to a Vietnamese mob to continue making or developing cars?

Or was that the Ford factory?

[hayseed]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

Wasn't it sold to a Vietnamese mob to continue making or developing cars?

Or was that the Ford factory?

That was the Holden proving/testing Ground ...

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

Wasn't it sold to a Vietnamese mob to continue making or developing cars?

Or was that the Ford factory?

Vinfast - they've left Australia already

https://www.carsales.com.au/editoria...-covid-131619/

[Dr Smith]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Vinfast - they've left Australia already

https://www.carsales.com.au/editoria...-covid-131619/

I was in Vietnam mid Jan and not seeing Vinfast cars out on the road before I have to say some of their models were very good looking and on doing some searching found they used BMW architecture initially which probably explained why the sedan Vinfast Lux A2.0 and SUV Vinfast Lux SA2.0 I saw looked great on the road...think 5-series and X5 size and looks...
and the Vinfast President uses a GM 6.2L V8

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Dr Smith

I was in Vietnam mid Jan and not seeing Vinfast cars out on the road before I have to say some of their models were very good looking and on doing some searching found they used BMW architecture initially which probably explained why the sedan Vinfast Lux A2.0 and SUV Vinfast Lux SA2.0 I saw looked great on the road...think 5-series and X5 size and looks...
and the Vinfast President uses a GM 6.2L V8

They looked promising, they poached a lot of ex Holden staff too, I wonder if they kept the engineers and took them to Vietnam?

Sad they couldn't make it work here, they did in the US:

https://electrek.co/2022/07/27/vinfa...cooters-in-us/

[Sprintey]

To go from high end manufacturing, to mushroom farming.

3rd world here we come!

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Sprintey

To go from high end manufacturing, to mushroom farming.

3rd world here we come!

Out of everything, mushrooms as well.

Worst item you'll receive on your plate BY FAR.

[Late braker]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

The sh*t gets sent in rather than sent out now.

That’s very funny. 😃

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Out of everything, mushrooms as well.

Worst item you'll receive on your plate BY FAR.

That’s highly subjective.

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

They looked promising, they poached a lot of ex Holden staff too, I wonder if they kept the engineers and took them to Vietnam?

Sad they couldn't make it work here, they did in the US:

https://electrek.co/2022/07/27/vinfa...cooters-in-us/

I remember Wheels running a story on it. From what I recall the Holden guys wanted to do things certain ways (the right way), and the Vietnamese guys wanted to do it the cheap way, and the aussie guys were getting frozen out. By the sound of it they just pulled the plug and went their own way.

Also covid caused significant hassle for the vietnamese to travel here. Which I also think had something to do with the aussies getting frozen out of what was going on.