April vehicle sales

[Bud Bud]

Originally Posted by Adrenaline

How many Sportwagons do Holden sell per month? V8s also account for more than 20% of their sales last I heard. Take them away from the ~3000 units units Holden pushed last month and it starts to look ugly.

Rubbish! Holden maintained the advantage they had with their simple uncomplicated run of the mill V8 and introduced a sportwagon after they could not see any benefit maintaining a regular wagon so they could be in this position now. Considering the fact that the wagon does not come from the long wheel base, they have also done well not to kill this segment off either at least for the time being.

On the other hand Ford did not update their wagon and then killed it of. Same could be said about the V8 option along with a long wheel base anything. It was Ford that engineered the position they are in and nothing to do with Holden. No point chucking rocks at Holden for having a bigger line up for customers to choose from and then calling unfair play.

Originally Posted by bobthebilda

No, the list of sales for the first 3 months, seems to indicate people are still buying cars in near record numbers. But as the Falcon is just one of literally hundreds of cars available to chose from, I dont see why people expect it to sell more than it is. Regardless of how good of a car people think the Falcon is, it suffers from a few disadvantages (main one being volume production= lower possible sale price to recoup investment), that others on the list dont

Pos Model 2011
1 Mazda3 11,159
2 Holden Commodore 10,644
3 Toyota Corolla 9,712
4 Toyota Hilux 9,411
5 Holden Cruze 7,446
6 Hyundai i30 6,705
7 Nissan Navara 6,586
8 Hyundai Getz 5,086
9 Mitsubishi Lancer 4,980
10 Toyota Yaris 4,629
11 Mitsubishi Triton 4,496
12 Mazda2 4,475
13 Ford Falcon 4,448
14 Subaru Impreza 4,421
15 Toyota Camry 4,229
16 Toyota Prado 3,831
17 Ford Fiesta 3,764
18 Subaru Forester 3,353
19 Toyota RAV4 3,345
20 Suzuki Swift 3,296
21 Toyota Kluger 3,182
22 VW Golf 3,157
23 Ford Focus 3,140
24 Holden Barina 2,889
25 Ford Ranger 2,789
26 Holden Colorado 2,652
27 Toyota Land Cruiser 2,587
28 Hyundai ix35 2,573
29 Ford Territory 2,533
30 Nissan X-Trail 2,497
31 Nissan Dualis 2,438
32 Mazda CX-7 2,296
33 Holden Commodore Ute 2,220
34 Toyota Aurion 2,190
35 Mazda BT-50 2,135
36 VW Tiguan 2,053
37 Holden Captiva7 2,022
38 Mitsubishi Outlander 1,987
39 Ford Mondeo 1,961
40 Nissan Micra 1,829
41 Honda Civic 1,794
42 Ford Falcon Ute 1,651
43 Kia Rio 1,643
44 Hyundai i20 1,622
45 Honda Jazz 1,617
46 Toyota Land Cruiser Ute 1,590
47 Mazda6 1,499
48 Honda CR-V 1,422
49 Mitsubishi Pajero 1,420
50 Mitsubishi ASX 1,405
51 Kia Cerato/Koup 1,398
52 Subaru Outback 1,352
53 Subaru Liberty 1,335
54 Mercedes C Class 1,283
55 Isuzu D-Max 1,225
56 BMW 3 Series 1,194
57 VW Polo 1,149
58 Nissan Tiida 1,092
59 Honda Accord Euro 1,088
60 Ford Escape 1,085
61 Hyundai Santa Fe 1,077
62 Suzuki Alto 1,046
63 Nissan Patrol 1,035
64 Great Wall V240 989
65 Hyundai i45 976 0.4%

This is the biggest worry imho, there is no Ford anything in the top ten. Even Hyundai gets a second mention. This needs to be fixed now before it is too late, and I would settle for a Ford anything at this stage.

So it begs the question, are we looking at this the wrong way?, if the Falcon is on the nose to the general buying public in Australia, should Ford now be looking deep into its arsenal of cars to change the fortunes of its woes in Australia, is there anything else in the world of Ford that could make a big impact in here like the Cruze or are people still pinning its hopes on the Falcon?

Bud Bud