Comments on: New vehicle sales up 11.7 percent in January

By: ABMPSV

ABMPSV — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:02:57 +0000

The figures is for Jan – Dec 2009

By: ABMPSV

ABMPSV — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:52:16 +0000

Anybody know what private buyers buying? I can get info on that what people buying in Germany but not here. Here is what is the best seller and what people buying.
1 VW Golf, Golf Plus, Jetta 366,231
2 VW Polo 109,005
3 Opel Corsa 106,980
4 Opel Astra 104,750
5 Skoda Fabia 103,645
6 Ford Fiesta 102,571
7 VW Passat 84,729
8 Mercedes C-Klasse 77,394
9 Audi A4 75,341
10 BMW 3er 72,288
11 Audi A3 72,238
12 BMW 1er 71,400
13 Ford Focus 64,225
14 Fiat Panda 59,114
15 Peugeot 207 58,222
16 VW Touran 55,913
17 Mercedes A-Klasse 54,622
18 Skoda Octavia 54,335
19 VW Caddy 53,175
20 Fiat Grande Punto 53,111
21 Dacia Sandero 51,292
22 Mercedes E-Klasse 50,867
23 Seat Ibiza, Cordoba 45,878
24 VW Tiguan 44,513
25 Toyota Yaris 42,638
26 Mercedes B-Klasse 40,791
27 Renault Clio 37,502
28 Opel Insignia 36,347
29 BMW 5er 34,374
30 Smart Fortwo 33,973

and for private buyers

1 VW Golf, Golf Plus, Jetta 254,039
2 Skoda Fabia 93,606
3 VW Polo 90,199
4 Ford Fiesta 82,816
5 Opel Corsa 79,822
6 Opel Astra 68,918
7 Fiat Panda 53,104
8 Dacia Sandero 50,135
9 Peugeot 207 45,753
10 Fiat Grande Punto 43,776
11 Skoda Octavia 40,123
12 Toyota Yaris 38,180
13 Seat Ibiza 37,286
14 Audi A3 35,196
15 Mercedes A-Klasse 33,918
16 Ford Focus 33,054
17 BMW 1er 32,334
18 VW Touran 30,958
19 VW Caddy 30,758
20 Renault Clio 29,467
21 VW Tiguan 29,311
22 Dacia Logan 29,258
23 Mercedes C-Klasse 26,961
24 Renault Twingo 26,903
25 Hyundai i10 26,727
26 Toyota Aygo 26,412
27 BMW 3er 25,819
28 Audi A4 24,180
29 Ford Ka 23,326
30 Smart Fortwo 22,755

By: rentakeyboard

rentakeyboard — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:31:44 +0000

and Toyotas

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:56:15 +0000

Luv Local, If the government thinks the way you are thinking, then we are certainly in trouble. Have you visited a an australian car plant lately. Taken Holdens Elizabeth Plant for example. In time of war, they could probably build umm umm commodores for the army. Plants are not set out like they were 60 years ago. To build anything of a defence value, you would have to gut the plant. In fact a vacant car plant would have more use in time of war. As for R&D, Coles supermarkets spend more on R&D when they replace their checkout chicks with unmanned stations, than car plants will spend this year (even with government subsidies). And remember, its not really R&D when you import the part from Asia (along with the instruction booklet), and assemble in australia. If that was R&D, the government should direct its R&D subsidies to IKEA. Five percent of your car assembly workforce may involve more than IKEA like occupations. Thus thats 5% of 30,000 = 1500 people, that equals about the well educated teachers at 30 schools. I bet you can pick the 30 best funded schools in australia and i can assure you they arent getting 600 million a year in governnemt subsidies. Governments arent using the money to make us a smarter nation, they are subsidsing weakness, and making the rest of us weaker.

By: Whitbomb07

Whitbomb07 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:34:54 +0000

It’s worth every cent of that $2500.

Regards

Whitbomb07

By: How to make a successful company fail

How to make a successful company fail — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:54:47 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me…the guy’s nicknmae was Mad Dog – the Dealer’s friend (Mazda Dealers that is).

By: Concerned

Concerned — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:47:40 +0000

Reminds me of one classic staff party where he turned up with one on each arm!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:37:34 +0000

You are right, the Honda MD has no clue. He is too busy with the Chinese and Korean hostesses.

By: Stumpy

Stumpy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:32:12 +0000

I get a good laugh when people complain about the local car industry getting assistance from the tax payer.

Every manufacturing country protects there own in on way or another you don’t think that the registration system in Japan isn’t the way it is to artificially inflate the numbers of car manufactured and sold within that country.

If you want manufacturing you have to support it and if you can’t understand why we need manufacturers and heavy industry in this country then you are blind to the greater world and to history.

By: rentakeyboard

rentakeyboard — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:54:36 +0000

Drive reporting 270,000 Prius recall for US and Japan.
That brings the total to 8,370,000 Toyotas recalled worldwide.

I will be interesting to seee where Toyota finishes the year as they self destuct thru 2010!

Have you stopped your Toyota lately? lol