I object to public money going to prop up Holden unless they design a much better car. The designers so far have provided unsuitable cars.

Today cars are designed by young Turks and CEO’s that express their fantasies in their macho designs. The advertising that goes with their designs are fast, furious, sleek, dangerous, designed for the sexy, young executive male and females or the family people movers. These people think they are the only clients that buy cars. They have not analysed the market of tomorrow.

There is a growing cohort of over 55 to 80 who will buy cars in future. They want a car that is easy to get in and out of comfortably. A two door car would suffice because this age group needs a car for just one or two people. Their journeys will be mostly short local trips that do not need excessive speed. An electric or solar car would be a more appropriate design for their future needs. So who is going to design their perfect car? Not Holden by the look of it! Their gas/ethanol driven cars are not what future clients or the environment needs.

The Government is once again wasting an opportunity to resolve a problem that has been allowed to escalate over the past decade. Poorly designed cars have been produced by manufacturers that refuse to retool their factories to produce cars that are safe, economic and suite the environment and clientele’s future needs.

A car designed for future clients would also be safer for the under 25 age group that is responsible for many road accidents today. Before any grants are handed out there needs to be an objective study, without union influence, on where taxpayer’s money should be invested in the car industry. The Luddites cannot hang onto their jobs forever. New jobs evolve from new technology and that needs Government funding in new design. Holden latest announcement just does not fit the taxpayer’s needs.

Mary Jenkins.
WA 6163.

Sybil this car is now being sponsored by our Federal government.

Vast amounts of tax payers money will be spent, because we all know, tax payers are intellectually incapable of making their own free-market spending decisions.

How could you possibly doubt Krudd & Co's innate ability to "pick a winner"?

The predecessors of KRudd astutely chose the Collins Class Submarine, at huge cost to tax payers....

…..that it could not ‘submerge’ was purely incidental.

Personally I believe government controls too much of our discretionary expenditure.

If they sacked all the parasitic bureaucrats and left more of my taxes in my pocket, I will spend it on the car of my choice, not the car they decided I will be allowed to buy.

Money for car companies is a symptom, the problem is “big government”.

I gotta agree with this one Col and Sybil.

Government meddling in the car industry is a recipe for disaster. Consumers decide what they will buy or not, car manufacturers only react to what the consumer wants and is buying. In one way it's a process of natural selection, a wide variety of choice is presented and consumers decide what will succeed an fail. The government has a proven track record of exceptionally poor judgment in what consumers want. This will be a massive waste of taxpayers money for very little gain.

spot on Sybil & co., in the future we'll all be driving the Holden 'Camel'

we know gm has ALLREADY produced the electric car

'DEVELOPING' a four cylender petro[25 percent more efficient] is a copout[the petro chemical complex[cartel?]has ruled the roost too long

too much tax payer funding has supported the industry this far[they are unable to change] govt should seize their assets and build the cars we have long ago paid for

but the two party demonic autocracy goes blissfully onwards [cause it knows how to play both sides of the game against the other ,in order to suck ever more cash from the govt [tax payer funded teat]

we get good guy /bad guy plays[howhard dont want the global carbon TAX[so the good guy sinks in the next harp-oon]we have science sold out to the biggest fund supplier[have crooks getting the best educated directing [miss directing research;like certain researches into curinmg cancer are banned[mainly the ones that ]'reportedly'cure it]

but its the same beuro-roc-rat-[tic] in bred autocratic beurocracy running the play ,via the instruments of the worlds shadow govt [law,medicine,bankers]

[its time we seized back 'their' supper raised by selling OUR telstra, stashed into THEIR truist funds ,as being proceeds of crime]

and spent it on change we REALLY can believe in[noting chavers used the obama slogan ''change we can believe in' ,before obama [inc] did]
either that or stop supporting THEIR system ,stop paying their revenue raising fines , fees, taxes[wages arnt income]income is proffit made from resale.

but heck just pay your tax[and drive cars [making 'emiting micro particulate causing cancer]drink your metal fluerided waters , your mercury filled vacines and stop whining about the auto[you auto-motrons]get back to work[your boss needs to top up your failing supper and the bankers need their bonus

where is this media reporting the rort[or cops persueing the real crimninals]not just the drug addicts and speed freaks

palimpsest "in the future we'll all be driving the Holden 'Camel'"

and it will, like Henry Ford said come in only one colour....

Lemon

maybe St Christopher, patron saint of travellers, should be accompanied by a patron saint of cars, St Kevin