Auto manufacturers have,on occasion, had assembly plants in New Zealand.I think Peugot,if my memory is correct,had a plant there at one time.Mind you,there are more people in greater Seattle or Toronto then in all of New Zealand so the economics just aren't there.
Correct.
Also Datsun/Jaguar/Leyland
/Skoda/Hillman/Toyota/Ford/Mitsubishi/Chrysler/Peugot have all been made in NZ at various times.
All were shut down in the 90's because of the economics of scale.
Back then we only had 3 million people in the country.
We have made some cool stuff tho. The 'Britten"