Engineering firm Premcar has celebrated production of the 10,000th new Nissan Warrior at its Epping assembly plant in Melbourne.
The gun metallic 4×4 SUV was met by applause from the company’s large manufacturing and engineering teams, with the event also broadcast live on television.
“This is another great day for Australian manufacturing,” says Premcar engineering director and chief executive Bernie Quinn.
“Since 1996, Premcar has secondary manufactured more than 200,000 new vehicles in Australia – and this number keeps growing.
“Australia’s car-making know-how is highly sought-after by major car brands,” he says. “Premcar’s ability to maximise the appeal of global and regional new-car model lines in different countries is long established.
“Australia is the perfect example of how re-engineering and secondary manufacturing popular makes and models for local tastes can quickly grow a car brand’s new-vehicle sales.”
Premcar is approaching its 30th year of new-car engineering and manufacturing operations.
Following a management buyout by the company’s current two Australian owners 12 years ago, Premcar’s sales are 15 times in size today and its local team has grown from 25 to around 200.
Premcar is the new-vehicle engineering and manufacturing company behind various major automakers, developing everything from specific suspension packages to entire new-vehicle platforms to fully enhanced, country-specific new vehicles.
The company has done more than 200,000 new cars and 55,000 new-vehicle engines, and its engineering and design skills are used in the defence and aerospace industries.
Premcar’s new-vehicle work appears on roads in the United Kingdom, Europe, the US, China and Australia.
As the company previously behind Australia’s FPV (Ford Performance Vehicles) brand, Premcar created some of the most famous Falcon models and Ford engines cherished by car enthusiasts.
Premcar’s work with EVs spans complete new-car platform development to local EV powertrain conversions.
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