Holden To Shed 200 Jobs

[937]

Expensive Daewoo to shed 200 jobs

15nov06

Expensive Daewoo will shed 200 jobs at its engine factory in Port Melbourne.

The General Motors-owned car company told workers at its Fishermans Bend factory site that they had two weeks to nominate for the voluntary redundancies.

Expensive Daewoo spokeswoman Maya Donevska said the move was prompted by a downturn in demand for the Family II four cylinder engine, which is used in Daewoo cars sold in South Korea.

"There has been a drop in demand from one of our export customers from 750 engines a day to 500 (a day), therefore there is a need to restructure the workforce," Ms Donevska said.

"This is the export engine which is not to be confused with the V6 engine, which ... goes into some of our cars locally."

Ms Donevska said only Holden's Fishermans Bend site, which has 1230 workers, was affected by the downturn and there were be no further redundancies offered across the company's other operations.

"We've only told one shift, my understanding is that the response has been there are quite a few people who are interested," Ms Donevska said.

"Management are fairly confident that we will be able to get 200."

Ms Donevska said Holden's engine export business had endured "wild fluctuations" in the past, and this was another.

"There has been years where we've exported four million engines from here and some years we've had ... 300,000," she said.

"It's just the export market.

Comment was being sought from the unions.

[Dagabond]

"Management are fairly confident that we will be able to get 200."

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From what I've heard of course they will.

They dont mention the 50odd casuals they laid off a few weeks ago....

[RHR]

Sorry but some one had to say it

Expensive Daewoo means a great deal to australia

Looks like everyone (ford Mitsubishi and Holden) are axeing people.. Any word on toyota with the camry and tarted up camry (Aurion)

[veczar]

Trippy av Dagabond !

[937]

Sorry but some one had to say it

Expensive Daewoo means a great deal to australia

Looks like everyone (ford Mitsubishi and Holden) are axeing people.. Any word on toyota with the camry and tarted up camry (Aurion)

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Toyota Unveils Aurion Sports Concept

Toyota Australia has unveiled a dramatic red and black sports concept sedan based on its new Aurion large car.

The Aurion Sports Concept, created by Toyota Style Australia, is one of the stars of the Australian International Motor Show in Sydney.

It features aggressive styling and aerodynamics with integrated front and rear air-dam diffusers, a prominent two-tier rear wing and 20-inch five-spoke dark charcoal alloy wheels.

The dramatic exterior styling theme is enhanced with glass-infused mica metallic 'Inferno' red paint, incorporating a tonal Aurion graphic on the lower body sides.

Contrasting with the hot body colour are metallic grey body cues around the windows, grille and trunk-mounted lower rear spoiler.

All glass is blacked out and, along with a black roof, creates the impression of a futuristic one-piece glass top.

Other special features include a floating grille frame with embossed mesh insert and twin exhaust pipes integrated into the rear bumper.

Paul Beranger, Manager of Styling and Design at Toyota Style Australia, said the show car was an advanced styling concept from Toyota Australia's young design team.

"The Aurion Sports Concept is a vision for the future styling direction of Toyota Australia's sports-car image," Mr Beranger said.

"Many of the design cues are likely to appear on production vehicles that go beyond Aurion's new sports range, the Sportivo SX6 and ZR6.

"Our creative team is continually experimenting with ideas for the Australian customer. Previous programs such as Cross Runner and Sportivo Coupe have been winning concepts with the Australian public, and now the launch of the Aurion brings a whole new range of opportunities for Toyota to move into more niche market segments.

"This sports concept is just one example where we are testing the market and encouraging feedback from the public."

Mr Beranger said Australian drivers were unique in wanting both a sports car and a family car in the one package.

"The Aurion Sports Concept is one possible solution, with styling themes slanted heavily towards the sports car end of our youth market," he said.

The Aurion Sports Concept is purely an exterior styling exercise.

Toyota Australia is still keeping under wraps many of its styling and engineering plans for future models.

However, from a performance perspective a sports sedan based on the Aurion could be expected to be powered by a supercharged or turbocharged version of an advanced Toyota engine.

Source: Toyota Press Releases

Only problem IMO,........ Front .... Wheel ..... Drive.

Edited 16/11/06 01:25 AM by 937

[Evil F6]

Only problem IMO,........ Front .... Wheel ..... Drive.

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Only problem! Fark it's a Toyota, that's it's problem. So now the roads will be full of wankers in hotted up Aurions, still driving in the right lane at 20-30 under and the very nice engine will never the otherside of 2500rpm. I could imagine quite a few of the old darls splitting their incontinence pads though if they accidentally take it up to 5000rpm and sueing Toyota, after all they buy a Toyota to enjoy a more genteel pace; life in the slow lane.

Be wery wery quite, I'm hunting Toyota dwivers.

[RHR]

Tarted up camry... NO THANKS