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

@JanetteEvans Point one. No cars are now manufactured in Australia. With only 26 Million people, the market is too small. So all cars are imports.
So this is a case of either some makers deciding not to maintain a dealer network here.. Or the maker no longer making product (Like Jaguar) Overall this is not a sign of decline in the country. EVs from China alone have replaced the brand numbers and there are many more companies from Asia also launching here.😷

@whowasthatmaskedman It's been happening progressively over the last 30 yrs. We're a country the same size as mainland USA but with 1/10th the population (that's a good thing), so 1/10th the market size compared to the USA, and about 1/50th to 1/100th of China, or the combined European and middle-eastern market. Plenty of brands come and go.

@zonavar68 Exactly.. And the Asian market is producing better cars each year. Look af Korea now.😷

@JanetteEvans small population can't support the huge variety that's available... Plus the cheaper Chinese cars are having a big impact..

@zonavar68 Humm! Impressive to hear that from you Zonavar and thanks for your enlightenment

@Convivial Also the good brands like Toyota, Hyundai/Kia, etc. are strong and agile while most of the traditional US-centric and European-centric brands have all basically stagnated into irrelevance here.

In the Euro space, only really BMW, Audi and Mercedes do ok, but Mercedes in particular has an extremely poor customer service record.

The early pivots in EV or almost-EV only line-up's is also basically a disaster for most brands that aren't EV only with almost full control over raw material inputs from inception (like Telsa and BYD).

@zonavar68 plus those brands you mention, especially the Mercedes, have a limited client base due to cost

@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.