AMWU National Secretary, Dave Oliver, has rejected a self-proclaimed expert's negative diagnosis for the 200 000 employee strong Australian auto sector.

Mr Oliver made the comments in response to an opinion piece from car buyer's guide editor, Clive Matthew-Wilson, who claimed the Australian auto sector would not survive the financial crisis.

"Mr Matthew-Wilson's range of assertions are starkly incorrect, especially as he seems to draw heavily on the financial state of international partners to ground his assumptions. In actual fact, Australia's car industry is better positioned than its international counterparts," he said

The full opinion piece is available at this link to the ABC Online news blog