And note that most of the important mechanical and electrical components are imported from supplier plants outside the country, already. The only major mechanical components made here were the flex-fuel gasoline engines in the Focus.

Thus, the price and availability of spare parts (which are not as hard or as expensive to get for non-US made Fords as people think) will remain exactly the same.

Quote Originally Posted by uls View Post
naalala ko tuloy mga thread ni jpdm

sabi niya dapat i-ban ang used vehicle imports para maka-take-off ang local auto manufacturing

o ayan... ang kalaban ng mga manufacturer hindi used imports... mga brand new imports

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and also years ago i said those newspaper articles re subic imports (dangerous daw RHD to LHD conversion and all that crap) are really media campaign by CAMPI to lobby the govt to ban used vehicle imports
Truth.

But for the second part, the RHD-LHD conversion thing is real... though more a case of poor government regulation rather than the act of conversion itself being dangerous... I've driven a lot of conversions that drive better than local cars of the same age... and I've driven some that were downright...