Re: August MrBishi sales

[Ext User(Dan---)]

Noddy wrote:
> "Kieron" <kieronm302@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4327b4b0.67064593@203.50.2.233...
>
>>Don't look too flash, they are well down the charts in all segments,
>>Total sales for all vehicles was less than the top selling car for
>>that month - 4526 and the top selling car? the big blue one with
>>5826, which frankly surprised me.
>
>
> Old news (again :)
>
> It was announced a couple of weeks ago that the Falcon has pipped the Commy
> as number one selling car, and this is apparently the result of two things:
> A dwindling of large petrol powered car sales (affecting both the Falcon and
> Commodore), and an increase in the number of Egas Falcons purchased.
>
>
>>Can those sorts of figures support a local manufacturer with large
>>dealer base in the long term or will they do a Nissan?
>
>
> Holden, Ford and Mitsubishi have all been caught with their pants around
> their ankles in relation to current fuel prices, and unless they do
> something fucking amazing very quickly we're likely to see some pretty
> serious problems in the Australian car manufacturing business. Egas Falcon
> sales figures alone won't keep Ford afloat, and the Commodore will be fucked
> heavily in the arse if it doesn't get a drastic economy option very soon.

Holden is offering dual fuel option on their V6 Exec now using gas
injection system. There is talk of a turbodiesel option as well.


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Regards
Dan.
V8 owner and will always be.
:-p