Comments on: Global downturn hits hard – pictures

By: Yanzo

Yanzo — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:22:50 +0000

never was a fan of general motors. i want a 135i

By: Ravith

Ravith — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:58:55 +0000

Poor me! I was dreaming of driving BMW at Hyundai’s price.

By: Cupid Stunt

Cupid Stunt — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:44:49 +0000

Honda havn’t made a car at Swindon plant (UK) for 4 months now apparently.

By: Frontman

Frontman — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:54:43 +0000

Actually ADAM, the current climate has been foreseen by several for the past 3 years (at least we’ve been talking about it for that long). Hence the reason VWAG has been able to cope so well, and Mr Mullaly started the major restructure and Finance in 2006. Remember how many of the faithful hailed him down about it. That’s the biggest problem, some manufacturers won’t have learnt from this.
Ravith, the Question you ask is the same as anyone asks at the stockmarket crash, how much cheaper will it get??

By: adam (aka mada)

adam (aka mada) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:22:06 +0000

The current reduction of vehicle sales worldwide occured faster than ANY auto company could respond without having overstocks we currently see.

Lukaas,

Ford is now operating so production does match real demand.
It’s not just the japanese who operate this way.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:14:26 +0000

While the first 2 pictures may be genuine, the last is definitely not real. It is simply a layering of lots of jeeps. Its very easy to pick, the perspectives are not correct, the vehicles are too close to each other/overlap. and there is a big change in perspective/size of the vehicles ot the top of the shot/horizon.

Another case of the media (Boston.com?) blowing things out of proportion.

By: Ravith

Ravith — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:54:50 +0000

I am trying to find a silver line in this cloud.
Will cars be dirt cheap shortly in Australia? If so I will hold my money for some time yet. I have heard that in UK, Kia brought ‘buy one get one free’, while some other companies have practically selling in half price.

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:44:08 +0000

Lukaas,
I believe toyota also fits into the same “pull” part of your explanation as the other D3.

read some back ground on how toyota got to the top of the sales tree. It was very much push, push, push.
Toyota is one of the most vocal predictor of sales. they also set out to take the sales hat off of GM. they did that by push push push.
One of the biggest ways they got higher with the sales was to start pushing more and more fleet deals. they pushed for and got fleet territory that was once predominately ford and holdens.

By: Bavarian Missile (.)(.)

Bavarian Missile (.)(.) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:55:34 +0000

Here some more I have read over the last week.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/16/former-ford-plant-home-to-thousands-of-unsold-hondas/

http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=1351293

Got to love the name of the ship they are storing them on. hahaha

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:14:25 +0000

Lukaas, so why then do Toyota Australia have such a huge overstock problem at the moment, even though they have been PUSHing early delivery of fleet orders: “Please take it now, instead of when you ordered it for”