Mirabile dictu: We’re going to make (weird little) cars

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Car-making is coming back to Australia with one company committed to launching “this year” with an electric city runabout expected to be its debut model.

Australia was an ideal size for the project which would go ahead regardless who wins government in May, industrialist Sanjeev Gupta of the GFG Alliance said this week.

Mr Gupta, who has previously floated the possibility of electric vehicle (EV) production here and emerged as a potential buyer for the Holden’s Adelaide factory site, confirmed to The Australian that plans would be unveiled “in the next few months”.

Take away this man’s visa. He is unAustralian.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.