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Originally Posted by marty351
Had an aussie been employed at Detroit and designed the barra,ba and territory there...
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You haven't heard of
Jacques Nasser then
....1999 to 2001 he served as Ford's CEO and president.
He is more associated with signing-off the AU Falcon
but given that the Barra and BA was on the road in 2002 he was the head of Ford when they were developed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Nasser
Anyway, Australia never had it's own car.
Whether a Holden or locally produced Ford (or Camry or Valiant or P76) they were always under the control of the Non-Aussie parent companies, or perhaps constrained is a better term. Imagine instead of Holden and Ford (Aus) we actually had an Australian car company that controlled it's own destiny. So rather than competing with each other in our little corner of the global market place they actually competed with other nations car makers. I think that would have been a very different story with a much happier ending. Never going to happen now though.