Corolla best selling car for Q1 2008
April 3, 2008 by George Skentzos
With official figures released today outlining the performance of the Australian motoring industry for the first quarter of 2008, Australia’s best selling car has beeen announced.
The humble Toyota Corolla is Australia’s best selling model, with 12,002 sold between January 1 and March 31 – 500 more than the next best selling model.
Toyota Australia’s senior executive director sales and marketing David Buttner said this figure is up 900 sales from the same period last year, a growth of 8 percent.
“Market conditions have been especially favorable for four-cylinder cars such as Corolla. Summer holidays in January and the Easter break in March have probably reduced fleet purchases of larger cars.”
Buttner concedes large car sales will accelerate in the coming months with the introduction of the Commodore wagon and new Falcon range, but expects Corolla sales to continue to average at least 4000 a month.
The HiLux (3rd), Camry (5th), Aurion (7th) and Yaris (8th) were also among the top ten best-sellers for Toyota.
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lol,, you definitely don’t have the disease (Foot in Mouth), which unfortunately some Toyoda fans here seem to inherited…
Fairdinkum – you clowns are just killing me !!
OH WHAT A FEELING … TOYOTA
thats right NM,
you dont want any under sized skinny rubbers when you are getting funky with it
you are always safe in the falcon with your ultra wide mansized steel belted radials gggrrrrrrr Hello ladies!!!!
and a mansize wallet to support your unreliable Falcon but haa … Joes Garage loves ‘ya more then the girls.
Wonderful that you pull figures out of the USA, COBRA. How relevant is that to Australia? The few Australian surveys have shown Ford as close to the bottom in just about every parameter, such as customer satisfaction and quality.
Furthermore, anyone can make up a story on some situation they have seen on the Internet. Even if your story were true, the fact remains that you are basing it off a single personal case and not the general case for the car overall. The general case for cars overall can only be seen through statistics and the statistics have supported the case that the Corolla is cheaper to run and more reliable and better quality than the Focus.
Dingo,
MY falcon isnt unreliable.
thats where you go wrong. you make such silly assumptions
how do you know MY falcon is unreliable?
abd i only go to joes garage because his mrs has a big set of hooters
Dingo, if the Falcon is so unreliable, why is there an OVERWHELMING amount of them used as taxi’s? If they were unreliable then they wouldn’t be so common. They are obviously cost effective and reliable so faunicate yourself with an iron stick. You and TP are total gimps who think that auto-enthusiasm is more about statistics than actually enjoying a car.
Toyota’s aren’t interesting cars. Period.
I ask the question JW,,, where are many Toyota car’s built, my post is relevant because for a start many models or platforms that are in US are from Japan, Africa etc,, so basicly we receive what they receive, we don’t have comprehensive surveys in Australia like the rest of the world, so drive.com made public JD power studies just last year consisting of only a pitiful number under 7000 owners, now what a joke JW,,, in US consumer reports is over 1,300,000 owners that is no way justifiable to compare in our country, you are under the Toyoda cloud with sponsers & share holders Dingo & TP, can you understand how judging owner satisfaction studies in US would correlate to rest of the world, Toyota has massive a market in US dwarfing little OZ and this governs what is going on at Toyo headquarters.. FULL STOP……
Focus is as Reliable than any boring, bland, white good corolla or better and will be much better as each year goes past, your story about rotars and brake pads is a farce buddy, looks to me your scratching your head for answer’s as this argument is fading like the wrong theory about pad’s………
Dingo I hate to tell you but you are totally wrong!!!!
go onto http://www.ancap.com.au, and it clearly states(vehicles tested after 1 january 08 will require electronic stability
control in order to achieve a 5 star rating. This vehicle was tested prior to this date and may or may not meet this new requirement.) Which it obviously doesnt because has no such safety feature even as an option!! the subaru impreza has a 5 star rating with vdc std, and awd and 6 airbags, you dont pay extra for these life saving devices and with the added bonus of having constant awd for stability/ handling, good work subaru!!!…
TP, thanks for your constructive reply, I thought the point of forum was to express an opinion and have others agree or disagree in a civilsed manner. Obviously not. The fact remains, the Corolla is ugly but there is something worse, the sedan. Is it a shrunken Camry or a bloated Yaris?
North, don’t know what it is, but, the Yaris is in the top 5 sellers and the Camry is in the top 10 sellers. Im guessing on that basis toyo don’t care. Personally, the Camry is in dire need of a mid life make over as it is now quite a bit behind its competitors, read 6, mondeo and soon to come euro.
The Yaris is still outselling the 2 so I guess it’s what people prefer. The Corolla is number 1 isn’t it, where exactly have toyo gone wrong with these vehicles? According to the market, they have got it right.
And dingo I think the Falcon has proven to be a fairly reliable vehicle over the last couple of years, parts are fairly cheap for those out of warranty, 2 or 3 years old, these cares are good buying if size and a bit of extra fuel doesnt bother you.
Focus is also a decent car that sells okay, and is certainly a better drive than corolla, its loud though, the model before certainly has created an expectation as to reliability issues which the current model has to wear.
For those who don’t know, it created a record in the USA when the NHTSA started a record total of 6 investigations into that model’s safety related defects in one year, apparently the engine at times just stalled, also the front suspension apparently can collapse due to becoming unbolted, 2 additional investigations for malfunctioning airbags and engines that caught fire…the current focus is carrying this historical baggage unfortunately…
BTW, if Toyo don’t improve their quality control soon, their vehicles are going to start carrying baggage as well, couple more years of steady recalls and people will start to question them as well..
Silky sees both sides… :) Probably a Libran, like me.
Golf we pretty much drive the same car as well, btw, has the spring failed on your remote fuel lid yet :)
There are two sides, to every story, but you know, its only sales that count when you get right down to it, if a car is selling well thats all that matters..
No, the spring’s fine. The only issue I’ve had was a minor one with a faulty flap in the intake that caused a rough shutdown a few months ago. Some time soon, I’ll have to face up to the brake rotors, too.
Hey Silky, thanks for the comments. I agree with you that they are getting it right, but why?
I wasn’t aware of the quality issues and have always thought that people bought Toyo’s for that very reason. If there is a problem developing, this really could tip the scales away from them.
People associate Toyota with car, get a corolla, get a camry blabla. Importantly, I think bout 50% of buyers (retail) are looking for a solid car to hold for 5 years, they are driving around town, cbf with repair issues and want to spend less than 30k, Toyota does cover all these bases, and provide a range of models to do so.
Its perception, toyota have done it very well, and hey, their cars are mostly pretty good as well.
Look at Holden, Barina, viva, epica, the last commie holds the recall record for AU made cars, their is a perception their of recalls, resale and dare I say it…fleet. The VE is a pretty decent car for the money, so is the falcon, but, then there is brains and resources, I mean, has anyone noticed over the last 10 years how many more cars toyota is selling and how commie and falcon sales have dropped, toyota has covered all bases(has the resources) the other 2 dont have a fkan clue, RWD, big cars, fleet sellers(the cars are fine demand is declining). Just dont think toyo, mazda, honda, VW, audi are all in there chipping away, incomes are up, there are a truckload of reasons.
But brains and resources pretty much sum it up, holden & ford are limited in resources(ergo model range) and brains, they dont really have a clue, didnt see it coming, jesus, its been coming for years. Seriosly read some of these threads, HSV – FPV, yesterdays news, whilst these arms ARE profitable its resources being thrown at the wrong development area’s. They are catering for a dwindling market, ie performance, how can this be true you may ask, look at the number of appliances in the top ten sellers I tell you. GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT TO BUY AND THEY WILL BUY IT.
BTW, Epica, viva and barina are not what people want to buy, these are appliances you buy in the second hand shop, and buyers pretty much know it now. You see, honda, hyundia, kia, mazda, nissan et al have picked up the slack in the smaller markets that ford and holden really truly, gave them on a platter.
Silky wd mate, constructive arguments and learning something new and ‘theres two sides to it in a story breakdown’ are whats makes a forum interesting to read, sometimes I just get put off from the over the fence warfare of words.
If the reliability is starting to dwindle, im pretty sure Toyota will pick up their game very quick since this is something thats been their backbone.
As for people saying what a crap company blah blah for doing this, its called strategy, sometimes it works very well and sometimes it doesn’t work as expected, they learn, move on, and if you think on a ’strategy / per company’ or Ford companies is full of blue blood fordies or Toyota motor co is full of Toyota lovers ala a sole entity, think again, I wouldnt be suprised if either company has poached staff from one another bringing with them ideas from each company to another, senior staff have more of an allegience to their lifestyle/money than to the brand…
Its funny on the level of fanaticm one person can have to a brand yet from the other side of the table they don’t really care who da fk u are (first time buyer looking for a change vs super patron) as long buy their product.
Well looky here all these new bloggers on the site.
Will I or wont I start on yet another BORRRRRRRRRRING Toyota blog,na my online time is toooooo precious at the moment to bother entering yet another rambling session,how are we all my happy bunch of Fords Fairies all hanging in there??????? Missing you all hope to be back full time SOON……….between the house renovations I am to over-see that is.
Silky, I’m with you on Holden’s terrible miscalculations on what they think Australians will suffer. I’m sure they wish they could offer a good turbodiesel of 2.8 to 3 litres in the Commodore RIGHT NOW, not in late 2009 or 2010.
And as for Barina, Viva and Epica. Watch the reaction at motor shows. People walk straight past them. It’s Yaris and Corolla all the way, deservedly.
Golf the thing is Holden and Ford react slowly and more often than not wrongly, VE and Falcon are damn good cars, terra is as well, as you say, 2008 and is there a diesel in sight for either company?
But noooo FPV come up with a 2125kg truck, 270kw turbo, petrol guzzling monolith. And whats with the W427, what a waste of resources and time..
COBRA no-one believes you about the reliability of the Focus.
I will grant you that they are a well designed car as far a dynamics are concerned. Most top tier Euro car are well handling/braking cars.
They are just not as reliable or cheap to run as a Corolla, Honda or Mazda. Simple as that.
The build quality is not there. For years Astra’s had to have the cam belt changed at 60k due to poor design. Brake wear is a huge problem on the Focus and Astra. Crappy Euro designed A/C as well is often an issue.
As I said, you can forgive these things on a prestige or sports model as it is hidden in the high servicing costs which are expected. But on an economy car it is unforgivable
SamR, looky here your wasting my time, I don’t car if adam and eve don’t believe me about how good my Focus is, that’s reserved for owner’s not people like u on this site to judge..
Corolla is just another boring bland car, the Focus is better for me in many area’s because I for one have eye’s and a heartbeat, something many toyota owners don’t have…..
For those who are interested … Toyota had a strong weekend in Motorsport.
First of all – locally was the first round of the Australian Rally Championships (ARC) which was held in Busselton south of Perth WA.
First heat was won (1-2) by the TRD duo – Simon Evans and Neil Bates – in thier new S2000 Corolla’s while heat 2 was won by Neil Bates as Simon Evans suffered mechanical issues. Regardless, round 1 of the ARC goes to the TRD team and thier S2000 Corolla’s fending of Subaru (WRX), Ford (Focus) and Mitsubishi (Lancer Evo).
In the USA was the running of 2 NASCAR events with Joe Gibbs Racing winning the second tier event – Nationwide Series – with Kyle Busch at the helm of his Toyota on Saturday. Sunday which was this morning our time was the running of the top tier event – Sprint Series – with JGR taking 3rd and 4th place with Kyle Busch (again) and Denny Hamlin at the helm of thier Toyota’s. Good finish for Hamlin in 4th this week backing up his win last weekend while Kyle took a 1st and 3rd finish for Toyota this weekend.
And finally, the third round of F1 was in Bahrain and after finishing 4th in Malaysia the week before – Toyota driver Jarno Trulli finished in a good position again this weekend taking 6th spot.
So … of the 4 motorsport events Toyota participated around the world on the weekend – they ended up on the podium 3 out of 4 races which is a good effort from Toyota/TRD and thier motorsport teams.
Golf you are a sloooooooow individual. No real life experiences as I said, for the most part, are NOT accurate. BF as I again ALREADY said was one great example, according to him he had raced a TRD Aurion with his EA Falcon and beaten it. Or another, Wheelnut claiming his 110kw Impreza can beat a Aurion. The problem with these experiences are they lack CONTROLS. Out of these two examples, its clear they have no idea whether the other driver is actually racing them or not.
Hey TP that LukeGT has been on here again, onthe Lexus page. You still gettin the cheques from HQ?
Dingo are the TOYOTA NASCARS FWD?
TP…..I think what you need to really say is some people believe that there views in life is the experience on how they see it when in fact it comes down to whether these people where clearly in a position of drag racing. I find some views espoused on here to be bizarre and the two you raise tend to be that……….bizarre.
BEWARE OF TOYOTAS ON GRAVEL OR UNSEALED ROADS.
They fall over!!!!!!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Whaaaaaaaaattttttt aaaaaaaaaaaa Feeeeeeeeeling
THUD!!!!!!
Maybe the EA Falcon or the Impreza raced somewhere thru twisty stuff or short distance…..I would be stunned if an EA Falcon could bet a TRD Aurion period. More importantly, was the EA stock standard? As for stock Impreza beating an Aurion……well more specifics like driver age, which model cause I also really find this quite hard to fathom! Seems to be BS claims!
Toy ooooooooooooooo taaaaaaaaaaaaaaa fall over and also roll over………..
“OH WHAT YA KIDDING” !!!!!! TOYLADA……
TOYOTA KLUGER… DRIVES CAR OF THE YEAR FOR CATEGORY.
NM it was stock EA. I dont take these stories for anything, unless you know the person, therefore know your both going flat out, you cant rely on it.
Kluger won the DriveL award for the people mover category, a class that most of its actual market competitors were not even considerd for. OK I agree the Kluger is better than a Tarago, big deal.
never took it on a gravel road obviously.
must remember that the six pack charger was only beaten by the 3.9 multipoint five speed EA upon its release as the fastest standard Australian family car of it’s era by quite a bit.
Kluger won the people mover award and considering u can only seat midgets in the back for any length of time.
awd Impreza would leave most things thru really twisty hilly stuff. AWD and torquey boxer would be quite formidable.
What most people don’t get is that peak power isn’t the whole story. eg 1000cc produce 120kws but 50nms. ok in something that weighs nothing of course. depends also at what rpm and the flatness of the torque and power curves to have greatest effect. Tuning a car engine to produce 200 killer wasps at 6200rpm for a memorable tv add probably isn’t the ideal real word execution of power and torque.
Golfschwein emits hearty guffaw upon reading TP’s comment that real life experiences don’t count. My ghast is totally flabbered.
I guess you must have had a childhood experience that caused you to never be able to trust people again and you subsequently disappeared into a dreamworld habitat of lists and surveys, percentage points and ISO tests.
This is hilarious: Aurion’s result as it chases Falcon XR6 in the WASP test is credible (aah, because it was measured!) yet the same magazine felled a Klugsta and it just didn’t happen. Couldn’t be true. Completely made up.
Mate, if I felled a Klugga or any other car for that matter, you can bet your finest that I wouldn’t be conforming to any ISO test.
F*cking BAM! Golfschwein . Ultimately it’s in vain because he and Dingo will shrug it off and persist. Yes Toyota’s nearly 25% stranglehold of the market is enormous, but it shows 75% of new car buyers still DON’T want a Toyota – particularly those of us who don’t want a four wheeled sleeping pill fridge and care about driving. TP and Dingo are nothing more than menaces and Im no longer amused by what either of them can scrape up.
If a car f*ckin rolls on a controlled test track and no other car does… its sh*thouse no excuse. and the new rolla’s look like a cordless kettle with headlight eyes
Golfschwein – you’re right at the recent Adelaide Motorshow I walked straight past the Viva.. Barina.. Yaris.. Corolla.. [what Prius?] and headed straight for the Golf.
Quote: Dingo – And finally, the third round of F1 was in Bahrain and after finishing 4th in Malaysia the week before – Toyota driver Jarno Trulli finished in a good position again this weekend taking 6th spot.
Yeah but when you consider on average less than 1/3 of the grid finish an F1 GP its not really that great an achievement.
Infact 1/3 of the grid is approx 6 cars which means you could say they came last.. Not Good
MrGriffon pull your head out of your ar*e… a test “track” doesnt constitue a gravel bend at 100km/h. Any call will roll, they were lucky on the rest, its simple probability… 1/???? will have problems.
But any car didn’t roll. Only the Kluger did.THERE IS PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE THAT IT ROLLED! If a motoring expert can manage this, then its more likely to happen to an average driver.
This is a safety oversight and proves that Toyota is more cynical than we thought. TP: WHY WONT YOU F**K ME TOYOTA, WHY WHY WHY!
PS it was physics that caused it to roll. High centre of gravity, combined with average suspension ( struts) and poorly calibrated Stability Control. Why are you still questioning this when its nothing but a distant memory? TP, I fart in your general direction.
wooow..easy there!!! IT IS VERY UGLY, IT IS BEYOND UGLY, in fact ..IT DEFINES UGLINESS, ..this is 2008 and because of consumers like YOU, YES U,,who say “oh its not that ugly” toyota didnt care to do something about their EXCEL looking cheeply made and expesnively SOLD frog!
1. first of all it is a PATHALOGY car..here in queensaldn S&N and Queensland X ray and Qpathalogy all use white corollas to pick up their blood, urine and s*** samples from the medical centres…
i dont know about u but out side of WORK i do not want to be seen in a car used for pathalogy…
2. hi sales dont mean anything …AT ALL…many superior technoclogies were discontinued cause people didnt buy them (beta vs vhs war for example)….mass population isnt exactly that smart…( nazi germany is one example) so their taste isnt really a good refrence
3. i have had toyotas namely camry..and the last one is for sale in carsales website…I HAVE HAD ENOUGH of this CRAP car…
4. IT IS POSSIBLE to DIE from boredom..so if u dont die in an accident ( cause u wouldnt in a corola thanx to the powerful engine ) u will certianly run the risk of getting ur self killed by boring urself
and seriously if anyone…anyone BUYS a WHITE Corolla
its bad enough getting a corola but a WHITE one
I MEAN WHY WOULD SOME ONE buy a WHITE…A WHITE…COROLLA
might as well put that little S&N sticker on the side and go pick up Urine samples…
jesus christ…people and their taste…
i thought by 2008 cars would look awsome…but
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO mr conservative there likes to drive something that can easily be mistaken with a urinemobile or shirly;s florals…amazing mile stone in car design by toyota..how about we make limos out of these classics ha? put some neons under neat mags and skirt and we got our selves sporty ones..how is that..shirlys floral, ur grandma, pathalogy next door and u ..DRIVINg these SPORTY DEVILS…how is that???