Quote Originally Posted by uls View Post
what we have here in the Phils. are truck body fabricators. they make bodies for imported trucks

Centro, Almazora

yan lang kaya ng Pinas --- gumawa ng katawan ng truck
Actually you're right to a point and infinitely wrong on another.

Almazora actually assembles trucks and buses. A good number of manufacturers make parts for anything as simple as cables to pistons to transmission components.

We have to understand that we can't be too emotional about NOT having a Filipino made car. There are a lot of countries who couldn't give a collective regret of not having an automotive industry.

It is economical to build buses here because they aren't as mechanically complex as cars, and that they cost a lot to ship as CBU's.

Vallacar Transit, for those of you in the Visayas and Mindanao region, rebuilds their own buses. The teardown is complete from body, to engine rebuilds, to casting and machining the brake drums. The quality is nothing short of exceptional.

A good example of "if there is an economic rationale mixed with political will and vision -there is a way to do it".