Ford Broadmeadows Last Day of Production- October 7, 2016

            October 7, 2016, marked a sad day in Australian manufacturing, and Australian culture in general. After 91 years of automotive manufacturing- 57 at the Broadmeadows (Campbellfield) Plant, Ford Australia closed its manufacturing operations. Once a mainstay of the Australian automotive industry, along with General Motors Holden, Ford Australia announced its decision to cease manufacturing operations in May 2013, after years of posting big losses, and declining sales, due to factors including access to cheaper imports, changing automotive tastes, and increasing manufacturing costs. While manufacturing has ceased at the Broadmeadows plant, millions have been invested in converting it into the ‘Asia Pacific Production Development Centre’, which will be a design hub for the Asia Pacific region. 

To pay tribute on the last day of manufacturing at Ford Broadmeadows (the last manufactured car being a Kinetic Blue FG X Falcon XR6, which will be kept in a Ford musem), many Ford fans and enthusiasts took their beloved Broadmeadows-made vehicles (mainly Falcons, Fairmonts, Fairlanes, GTs) to the front lawn of the facility, and displayed their vehicles. As a lifelong Ford man myself (from a family of Ford drivers), I couldn’t miss this opportunity to not only pay tribute to a big part of Australian culture, but to also show off my beloved 2015 FG X XR8 Falcon. 

An XP Falcon.

Taken on: October 7, 2016

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