The Big Picture GONE The Death of an Auto Industry

摘要

The beginning of the end, when it came, was as sudden and cataclysmic as a glacier collapsing into the sea. On May 23,2013, Ford announced it would quit auto manufacturing in Australia by 2016. Then, on December 11, General Motors announced it would stop making cars in Australia in 2017 Barely nine weeks later, Toyota announced it, too, would shut down its Australian manufacturing operations by 2017. And just like that an entire car industry died.