Concern about car advertising

I have enjoyed your comments over the years and would like your opinion on the European car makers who are going to flood our country with their products due to the demise of our car industry. What peeves me is all the advertising these Euro car companies are showing in the media with left-hand drive cars in European conditions which are so different to our environment. I think they should be advertising right-hand drive cars in Australian conditions and, if not, I for one will not buy their cars.

The real flood of imports is coming from Thailand and Korea, not Europe. On the subject of foreign TV commercials, it was deregulation from the 1980s — of advertising, not the motor industry — that allowed companies to spend their money on airtime and not local production. It's not restricted to cars, as you can see from shampoo and perfume spots, and it's not just Euro companies as Holden has also been using overseas material for some of its imports.

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