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Old 13-03-2018, 03:04 PM   #6978
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1985 Quantum (ABC) report on Holden. Has a good history part, followed by what went wrong to lead to a $100m loss at the time of this report, and a dire prediction for the future of Australia's car manufacturing which has come true. There's also an interesting breakdown on the cost of manufacturing a VL - materials (a very small part!), labour, factory/machines, transport, sales, tax, etc.

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