Australia alone in G20 not making cars

By Peter Roberts

The news from Saudi Arabia is great for the world car industry but marks a new low for Australia’s automotive sector.

California electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid Motors has opened the first car manufacturing plant in Saudi Arabia, as the country makes good on its promise of making automobiles as well as other manufactures.

All well and good. But Australia is now the only member country of the G20 that is not making its own cars.

Think about that, even…