Ford has definitively stopped its production in Australia
- The Ford group produced its last car in Australia on October 7, 2016. The carmaker announced three years ago it would stop producing cars in its Australian plants, officially considered unprofitable.
- This judgment follows that made by Mitsubishi in 2008, a year ahead of those that will be made by General-Motors (Holden) and Toyota which also decided to permanently stop their production in Australia.
- The Australian market (about 1 million vehicles per year) will be from 2018 entirely supplied by imports, mainly from Asia, South Africa, North America and Europe.
- A quarter century later, the Australian automobile production has ended up following the same path as that of New Zealand, neighbouring country of Australia, which gave up its car industry in the early 90s.
- Ford created its first automobile plant in Australia in 1925. The most iconic and best-selling model was the D/E-segment sedan Falcon launched in 1960 and whose generations succeeded until 2016. This was the last model manufactured by the brand in Australia, alongside the Territory (2004-2016), a compact SUV based on the Falcon, which has been for ten years the best-selling SUV in the Australian market.
- After the closure of Ford, GM and Toyota plants, the Australian market could see a total reshuffle of cards at the brand level.
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