Comments on: February new vehicle sales down 21.9 per cent

By: JV @ l'Attitude in Cairns

JV @ l'Attitude in Cairns — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:58:03 +0000

Looking for comaprative sales figures for Porsche, Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin and Lamborghini for 07/08 and 08/09 or calendar 07 and 08.

Can anyone help?

Please?

I’d be ever so grateful

By: Bret

Bret — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:22:32 +0000

Alan, we all know that.
Anyway Camry 1,564 + SFA = ?

If we’re talking sales from the same plant then add all of the Territorys, utes, wagons, Caprices etc for the Falcon/Commodore figures. See, it doesn’t always make as much sence as you think.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:15:28 +0000

Aurion is basically a (modified) Camry. Try adding the 2 figures together to get a realistic answer.

By: Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:14:47 +0000

Toyota and Hyundai is doing much better in the market. Holden has got some arrogant dealers mainly in Perth, if they cant convince the customer, they treat very bad with them ultimately going to Toyota!

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:03:37 +0000

I’ve noticed there’s one car missing from the top 10 figures provided by Frontman.. “The Game Changing Aurion”
What happened did it realise that no one was playing “the game” and decided to go off and Play with itself?

By: Hugo

Hugo — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:44:33 +0000

Toyota is the only car company in Australia to sell more then 10 000 units per month even in times like now.

How good are they ??

By: Frontman

Frontman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:02:14 +0000

Hope this helps a little more………….

Top Australian Brands February 2009

Brand – Sales
1. Toyota – 14,274
2. Holden – 9,029
3. Ford – 7,396
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Vehicle – Registered
1. Holden Commodore – 3,376
2. Mazda 3 – 2,989
3. Toyota Corolla – 2,769
4. Toyota Hilux – 2,613
5. Ford Falcon – 2,386
6. Hyundai Getz – 1,583
7. Toyota Camry – 1,564
8. Mitsubishi Lancer – 1,551
9. Toyota Yaris – 1,548
10. Hyundai i30 – 1,234

That’s the top ten for you.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:14:45 +0000

Life’s pretty good when a G6ET is your ‘runabout’.

My FG XT has 31000km on the clock – small rattle behind the dash cluster & a nice big clunk sometimes appears when down-changing from 3rd to 2nd using the tiptronic.

Otherwise it is a great car that goes exceptionally well for a standard base model.

By: Frontman

Frontman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:41:24 +0000

This is not a Toyo-bash, just something on news sites all over the world tonight, so I thought I’d C & P one version, I have a range of photos depicting an awful lot of stockpiling going on including 180 acres of metal sitting there so ther is a certain amount of fact in it.
Article from: Agence France-Presse
JAPANESE car maker Toyota has leased a cargo ship to store 2500 unsold cars at the Swedish port of Malmoe, where parking lots are already full due to plunging car sales, a port official said today.
“The Swedish-Norwegian company Wallenius Wilhelmsen has reached an agreement with Toyota to let them use the Morning Glory cargo ship to store some cars, and we load and unload the cars,” Bart Steijaert, in charge of car stocks at the Malmoe harbour, said.
More than 30,000 cars of all brands are currently piling up in the port, including the 2500 on board the 195-metre Morning Glory.
The port has a maximum capacity of around 27,500 cars, Mr Steijaert said.
A new parking lot is being built at the port to provide more space for cars and is due to be completed in April.
“Since last summer, we’ve had a lot of cars in the harbour and we started to lack parking areas as the car sales dropped dramatically, and then the vessel arrived on January 7,” Mr Steijaert said.
Car sales have come to a screeching halt around the world since the global economic crisis erupted late last year, leading to an overload of stocks.
In Sweden, only 14,603 cars were sold in February, a drop of 31.3 per cent from the same month a year earlier, statistics showed.][

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:06:18 +0000

The Falcon I had before my current FG was under my ownership for 5.5 years (i think it was), and not even it had any rattles or squeaks on the day i traded it. The only rattles i got was from items in the actual car.

The FG has nearly 9k clicks on it now and its better now than it was new because its loosened up a bit. No rattles, no squeaks.
I thought my Auto lights were going funny because they seemed to be really sensitive. I tried adjusting the lights on and off settings to the extremes, still no luck.

I then realised that the dash mat had slipped over the sensor on the dash

So its still a fantastic car

NM,
did she get the 6sp or just the 5 banger???