6 car brands that will leave Australia or contract to the point that they are irrelevant by 2030

@zonavar68 It should be noted that Toyota and hyundai do not offer all their range in Australia. So as not to dilute their own sales here.😷

@Convivial Very true, and this is especially true with EV's as only the mass-production BYD's currently compete semi-favourably against non-EV's. Telsa's are luxury cars for the elite. Even RAM trucks are for the elite, but they have no EV offering. Ford never sold the F150 lightning here and that model has been scrapped but if it was sold here it would have cost A$250k with all sub-costs included.

@whowasthatmaskedman Toyota has a lot of region-specific models for the North American, local Japanese, European, and Arab + African markets most notably. They're very good as doing that. US makers just hate having to consider non-LHD production which is why there's no such thing as RHD Rivian EV's, and RAM's are all imported LHD and locally converted to RHD by a business in Melbourne. RAM trucks are btw far too large for Australian suburban/city/urban roads, much like the Toyota Tundra (basically giant Hilux). Same as the Ford F350.

We're a big country, but almost all the population lives on the east and south-east coast in a band 100 km along that part of the country, with a small burst for Adelaide and Perth. So vehicle requirements are totally different to that of USA/Canada, or Europe.

The newest pile of junk is a 2016 pathfinder with a blow engine and the junkyard wants too much for the engine, because you just cant juat drop an engine in them anymore i guess.

So we all came up with a plan to use the AMC Scout running gear, engine, transmission and frame and set the body of pathfinder on top of the old AMC

Some modify is going to be needed, but its only going cost us 300 to 500 bucks instead of few grand

@HumanEarth That may be feasible in the USA but Zonavar hints that it would very difficult, even impossible, in Australia, if you intend to use any such car on the public roads.

It would be in some European countries too, especially ones like Germany with its notoriously strict "Original Equipment" laws.

Your home-built car would not be illegal per se in the UK but would still need pass stiff legality and safety tests to be registered for road use; and obtaining insurance would likely be an even bigger and costlier hurdle to overcome.

While also in the UK, the Indian company that now owns Jaguar and Landrover (and still builds them here), no longer builds proper Landrovers of potential value to the Army, emergency-services, farmers and certain industries.

Its excuse is that its 'Defender' did not meet EU crash-protection regulations. So instead of modifying its design so it would (as had the Japanese off-road car-makers with their products) it now merely makes expensive family saloon-cars with the "Landrover" and "RangeRover" names glued on.

@ArishMell It is legal here to, but the family is doing it anyways, but why waste a good car body