{"id":249,"date":"2010-04-16T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T04:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=249"},"modified":"2020-06-20T02:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:05:02","slug":"where-does-that-car-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/where-does-that-car-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does That Car Come From?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s a Volvo it&#8217;s Swedish, and Vee Dubs are German, right? Well, not necessarily. We&#8217;ve done a quick fun quiz to show you that where a car is made is not so obvious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To take part in the\u00a0quiz click <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/buying-new-car\/new-car-quiz\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But on a more serious note, manufacturers do not have to reveal to their Australian customers where they make their cars.<\/p>\n<p>If you buy oranges you want to know if they are locally produced or imported.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, if you want to buy leather shoes, electrical goods, porcelain, brushware or even powder puffs the importers have to reveal their country of origin. But no so with motor cars, because under the imported goods act which dates back to 1940 there are no requirements for the country of origin for a vehicle being supplied to the Australian market to be so identified.<\/p>\n<p>So you go to buy a Holden and you believe you are supporting local industry; but Holdens sold here could well be made in Thailand, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Japan or Korea (and probably others that we haven&#8217;t been told about). But they don&#8217;t have to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>We think this is wrong. We believe you have a right to know which country makes your car and it should be shown on the compliance plate and other places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you agree?<\/strong> If so we&#8217;d like to hear from you so place your comment on the blog comment below. <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/lime-zaim-zaymi-online.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/lime-zaim-zaymi-online.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s a Volvo it&#8217;s Swedish, and Vee Dubs are German, right? Well, not necessarily. We&#8217;ve done a quick fun quiz to show you that where a car is made is not so obvious. To take part in the\u00a0quiz click here But on a more serious note, manufacturers do not have to reveal to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12598,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/12598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}