Comments on: How Japan's Tragedy Will Impact On The Market https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/how-japans-tragedy-will-impact-on-the-market/ News and views about cars in Australia Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.5 By: Elissa Simmons https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/how-japans-tragedy-will-impact-on-the-market/#comment-3144 Mon, 02 May 2011 06:21:15 +0000 http://blog.privatefleet.com.au/?p=832#comment-3144 It’s also worth thinking about the radioactivity of cars and spare parts that were sitting in factories near the nuclear fall out. How will these (if they are radioactive) be cleaned before shipping overseas?

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By: Fred Williams https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/how-japans-tragedy-will-impact-on-the-market/#comment-3143 Sun, 01 May 2011 12:58:18 +0000 http://blog.privatefleet.com.au/?p=832#comment-3143 As a contractor to one of the manufacturers locally producing vehicles in Australia I can advise that there are well less than 2,000 parts for each ‘typical car’.

Toyota as a local manufacturer has alternative sources of local supply for parts that cannot be obtained from Japan. The real reason for halving local production is simply reduced demand as the current models are runout in preparation for ramp up of next generation models due later this year.

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By: David Crosweller https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/how-japans-tragedy-will-impact-on-the-market/#comment-3142 Sun, 01 May 2011 06:20:44 +0000 http://blog.privatefleet.com.au/?p=832#comment-3142 My brother’s Subaru Forester’s 2-3 yr old fuel pump has died. Ther is no replacement in Australia and his mechanic suggests a 3 weeks’ wait. I wonder?

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By: Brian https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/how-japans-tragedy-will-impact-on-the-market/#comment-3137 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:46:26 +0000 http://blog.privatefleet.com.au/?p=832#comment-3137 This is a good article and describes the market quite well.
In my opinion, the further effects of the Japanese situation is that dealers will direct all current vehicles in stock to retail sales, excluding government and fleet sales. They need to do this to maximise profits when stock supply could be only about 40% of normal. Buyers will switch brands from the vehicles they wanted to buy to vehicles that are available and this will shift the market shares dramatically to the brands that have the stock available.
Due to new car sales being only about 40-50% of normal the brands affected wont be able to trade used cars and therefore used car prices will rapidly increase and especially on stock like Prado, Landcruiser, HiAce etc which will rise. Toyota and Honda appear to be the most affected brands, so second hand Toyota’s in particular will rise in price as current stock sells out.

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