After half a decade as the stumblebum of the Australian car making business, Ford Australia has kicked two tremendous and vitally important goals. First it announced that it would be shutting down its Geelong engine plant by 2010 in favour of importing the company's new global Duratec V6 engine for the Falcon and Territory. Then, as the usual suspects (the unions, the ABC, the academics] predicted doom and gloom for the entire Australian motor industry and blamed John Howard for it, along with his failing to find a cure for cancer or solving the problem in Palestine, Ford revealed it would build the Focus at Broadmeadows from 2011, replacing South Africa as the r ight-hand-drive source.
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