AUSSIE DOLLAR WORTH $1.07 US... IT HIT $1-10 YESTERDAY...

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 25 Dec 2010, 12:39 am

#818299

YIKES NOW $1-07c US

THE AUSSIE DOLLAR IS WORTH MORE THAN THE USA DOLLAR.

WHAT WILL THIS MEAN TO US????

I READ WHERE A VW JETTA COSTS $16,000 IN THE USA...

[PLUS $16,000 TO SHIP IT OVER AND CHANGE TO RHD....] 🙅

LEE

🙅

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 25 Dec 2010, 8:05 am

#818313

Yes I know.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 25 Dec 2010, 4:48 pm

#818337

MAYBE OUR PETROL WILL GET CHEAPER...???

although I read where petrol with Ethanol may get more expensive as the floods have wiped out crops used to make ethanol...

and NON Ethanol petrol won't be phased out for at least another Year....
bit hard if there isn't any ethanol... lol

LEE

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

Thatbrickhurts Learner Dubber

10 posts · joined Dec 2010 · 28 Dec 2010, 2:19 pm

#818681

You cannot import a VW Jetta into this country.

The artist formerly known as Dion the indestructible.

Sides Veteran Volks Folk

2,220 posts · joined May 2007 · 28 Dec 2010, 2:26 pm

#818684

Thatbrickhurts wrote:You cannot import a VW Jetta into this country.

Really ??? Volkswagen Australia do it all the time... they'd have brought thousands of 'em in over the last few years...

VWDCQ vice pres & web dude - vwdcqinc.org.au
Join a car club - get car peeps

My toys
'70 Hillclimb Bug 'Jezebel' w/- Haltech EFI - http://bit.ly/VwTNtQ
'60 KG Coupe - resto kinda started
01 New Beetle - gf's car, but I turn the spanners

HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 · 28 Dec 2010, 2:51 pm

#818694

There ya go, Sides - thickasabrick has spoken!

I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!

Sides Veteran Volks Folk

2,220 posts · joined May 2007 · 28 Dec 2010, 3:09 pm

#818699

😀

VWDCQ vice pres & web dude - vwdcqinc.org.au
Join a car club - get car peeps

My toys
'70 Hillclimb Bug 'Jezebel' w/- Haltech EFI - http://bit.ly/VwTNtQ
'60 KG Coupe - resto kinda started
01 New Beetle - gf's car, but I turn the spanners

HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 · 28 Dec 2010, 3:19 pm

#818704

Not many people have told me to GF, and got away with it as lightly as he did.🙄

I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!

Gary L Seriously Crusin Dubber

146 posts · joined Feb 2009 · 28 Dec 2010, 4:29 pm

#818715

Will be shopping on line very soon, sorry about that Gerry Harvey the only plus for you is it is usually VW gear

A wave a day keeps the doctor away especially in a VW 😎:

Snap Crackle Bang Seriously Crusin Dubber

146 posts · joined Aug 2009 · 28 Dec 2010, 8:55 pm

#818784

What if we bring some Jettas in as $999 pieces (to avoid GST)?

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 28 Dec 2010, 11:34 pm

#818819

shame we can't import some cheap electricity

if our dollar is doing so well...... ????

Have you noticed that Our Dollar is worth $1-34NZ
so, a holiday in New Zealand would be cheap.... lol

LEE

Jettas in the USA are made in the USA and are LHD.... Lee
there is a VW plant in Alabama...

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

cam070 Custom Title Time!

1,332 posts · joined Jul 2009 · 26 Jul 2011, 6:28 pm

#853874

Just saw on the news we topped US$1.09, when will it stop?

volumex Officially Full-On Dubber

389 posts · joined Jul 2005 · 26 Jul 2011, 6:56 pm

#853876

When the Republicans and Democrats stop fighting like kids in the schoolyard...

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Jul 2011, 7:32 pm

#853885

I read recently that the post office is losing around $1 per small package from China and other Asian countries...

well I cost them $3 today... lol

battery for My mobile phone
10 x ac/dc bridge rectifiers
6 watt 12 volt mr16 LED down light

looks like Dick Smiths has changed into a Harvey Norman electrical store...
no more resistors, capacitors, diodes or wire by the meter..

Lee

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

ian.mezz I never said, I could write or spell

3,913 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 26 Jul 2011, 7:35 pm

#853888

yes we been buying lots of vw stuff from the USA 😊

cam070 wrote:Just saw on the news we topped US$1.09, when will it stop?

😂🤪😂🤪😂
car forums. where a lot of peoples good intentions end up taking a good old car off the road forever never ever to see the road again. 🥲

vwbugsrule Slammed & Awesome Dubber

84 posts · joined Feb 2011 · 26 Jul 2011, 8:08 pm

#853899

This is the reason why i have been buying me parts from america. Parts + postage from America is cheaper than buying parts here !!! 😁

bus914 Custom Title Time!

1,230 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Jul 2011, 8:50 pm

#853916

68AutoBug wrote:
YIKES NOW $1-07c US...

WHAT WILL THIS MEAN TO US????

.....🙅

It means that manufacturing will shortly cease to exist here.

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cam070 Custom Title Time!

1,332 posts · joined Jul 2009 · 26 Jul 2011, 10:28 pm

#853943

bus914 wrote:
68AutoBug wrote:
YIKES NOW $1-07c US...

WHAT WILL THIS MEAN TO US????

.....🙅

It means that manufacturing will shortly cease to exist here.

Does anyone actually still make anything here?

Nikos Slammed & Awesome Dubber

95 posts · joined Apr 2008 · 27 Jul 2011, 6:20 am

#853972

Yes, but it's getting harder.

Given the growth in our economy and population, our manufacturing industry is smaller now than it was 50 years ago.

The scary thing is we're in the middle of a mining boom, and our industry is struggling to survive. What will happen when this boom cycle finishes,....which it will.

Nick.

Ben386 Officially Full-On Dubber

244 posts · joined Apr 2010 · 27 Jul 2011, 8:21 am

#853977

It means that retail and manufacturering will suffer here.

donn Wolfsburg Elder

3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 27 Jul 2011, 8:33 am

#853979

Ben386 wrote:It means that retail and manufacturering will suffer here.

while we keep buying on line from overseas !🤪

I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!

AUSSIE_MICK Officially Full-On Dubber

205 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 27 Jul 2011, 9:58 am

#853992

It means that a lot of us will have to go without our toys

Ben386 Officially Full-On Dubber

244 posts · joined Apr 2010 · 27 Jul 2011, 10:19 pm

#854118

donn wrote:
Ben386 wrote:It means that retail and manufacturering will suffer here.

while we keep buying on line from overseas !🤪

whilst buying off shore is good short term,long term all you do is prop the os economies up,whilst ours will go to the shit.People are still not spending money,dont believe what the goverment might say about a booming economy.Retail is still dead right now.Has been for 12 months or so.

AUSSIE_MICK Officially Full-On Dubber

205 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 28 Jul 2011, 6:29 am

#854142

I had first hand experience, retail has been dead for the last year. So glad i sold my shop!

Lucky Phil Wolfsburg Wizard

480 posts · joined Aug 2010 · 29 Jul 2011, 9:58 am

#854370

Nikos wrote:Yes, but it's getting harder.

Given the growth in our economy and population, our manufacturing industry is smaller now than it was 50 years ago.

The scary thing is we're in the middle of a mining boom, and our industry is struggling to survive. What will happen when this boom cycle finishes,....which it will.

Nick. [/quote
IT's happening now. I have just dismissed my two employees and am in the process of downsizing to just me'n the missus.
There is money out there but no one is spending atm.
The upside is I have had more time lately for the toys!

donn Wolfsburg Elder

3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 29 Jul 2011, 10:37 am

#854375

Lucky Phil wrote:
Nikos wrote:Yes, but it's getting harder.

Given the growth in our economy and population, our manufacturing industry is smaller now than it was 50 years ago.

The scary thing is we're in the middle of a mining boom, and our industry is struggling to survive. What will happen when this boom cycle finishes,....which it will.

Nick. [/quote

IT's happening now. I have just dismissed my two employees and am in the process of downsizing to just me'n the missus.
There is money out there but no one is spending atm.
The upside is I have had more time lately for the toys!

Maybe they are spending, just that with the dollar so good over seas then it is being spent os, and with the dollar the way it is makes our exports more expensive, can't have it both ways. 😠

I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!

SebastienPeek Custom Title Time!

1,657 posts · joined May 2011 · 29 Jul 2011, 11:00 am

#854379

It's great for us that are buying stuff online, but for where I work, it is a ball breaker.

The sold one, '73 VW 1303 - Zelda
The project, '74 VW 1303 - Gretl

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 29 Jul 2011, 8:03 pm

#854467

I wonder what it would be if We weren't exporting coal????

Lee

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---