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Originally Posted by Dr Smith
Yes, very annoying, local manufacturers had to price their cars so we would buy them and keep the factories running, this forced the importers to price accordingly to compete, either by being cheaper to be considered or offer better value...now no local industry and as you said we don't get cheaper cars.
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This argument would hold water if Australia sold cars that were popular.
Prices naturally increase year on year. There are still $20k small cars available. No one was buying Australian cars so it's not like they were keeping people from buying imports, regardless of price.
Base models aren't that popular so people are prepared to pay $30k for these cars.
$35k Australian cars wasn't exactly sustainable. These prices only started appearing once the industry was already destined for closure.