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From: Milton on 25 Mar 2010 16:49 "Premier" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote in message news:hogf7l$rle$1(a)news-01.bur.connect.com.au... > Very true - but why did those fail? > > Taurus - ugly - and the Falcon was a better car for a lower price Falcon and Taurus is like chalk and cheeze. There is not one area where the Taurus shines over the Falcon. > > 380 - shite marketing - when Aussies were looking for more efficiency - it > was launched with a name to place emphasis on its engine size (go > figure??). Mitsubishi was full of bad publicity at the time, so any new > model in that segment was doomed to fail. Probably the best assessment yet of the failure of the 380. The 380 was in fact quite a good car value for money, not perfect but still good value. > > Avalon - was actually quite a good car - much better drive than the Camry > of the time. But the last night it needed was to be seen as an old fogey's > car. So what did TOyota do? - get Les Patterson and Dame Edna to do the > ads - chracters with zero appeal to anyone under the age of 70. It looked > outdated - looked like an old car the day it was launched. Exactly what I thought too. It was a shape taken from the archives and looked like it came out of Toyotas design factory after a 2 minute board meeting. > > No car has really made any inroads into the Falcon/Holden domination - > with the possible exception of the Magna in the mid 80's up to the early > 90's (it sold about 40,000 one year by memory - and I bet many of these > would have come from Falcon/Commodore sales) - but of course we know what > happened later. Maybe some although I wouldn't know why. I'd say it was more like sales to the loyal Mitsu followers which slowly dwindled as Mitsu lost the plot in Oz. >
From: OzOne on 25 Mar 2010 17:51 On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:17:26 +0800, "Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote: >Noddy wrote: >> There was a small article in this morning's Herald Sun where Ford >> announced late yesterday afternoon that the Falcon station wagon has >> reached the end of it's production life, and as of now is no longer >> part of the Ford model line up. After 50 years, production >> effectively ceased yesterday and the model is now confined to the >> history books. >> They also claimed that the Falcon Wagon will be replaced by some >> Mondeo something or other with the option of both diesel and petrol >> powerplants, although they didn't give any specifics about exactly >> what it would be or where it would come from. >> >> The death of the big wagon has been on the books for ages, and given >> that the thing has largley been neglected by Ford in terms of the >> antiquated equipment it was being furnished with in it's last few >> models it can hardly come as a surprise to anyone that the thing is >> now dead and buried, however I see this announcement as a prelude to >> the death of the Falcon as a locally built car before very long. >> >> The FG model is not doing well in the sales department (it's >> currently being outsold by Toyota, Holden and Hyundai), and the >> Territory is currently selling less units per month than the >> Mitsubishi 380 was when it was finally canned. >> >> The rot has very definitely set in at Broadmeadows, and it won't be >> long before local production is wound down methinks. > >Ford have already announced that the Falcon is due to be canned in 2012 >which effectively kills local production. > What's the loss? The Falcon got bigger and bigger until it outgrew it's customer base. The Mondeo has kept growing until it's in a place where customers want their wagons. OzOne of the three twins I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace.
From: OzOne on 25 Mar 2010 17:53 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:58:17 +1000, "Premier" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote: > > >> >> The current Falcon is apalling and deserves to be put to rest. >> >> > >On what grounds???? How would you improve it??? > > >> Easy, shrink it and put a decent engine in it. OzOne of the three twins I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace.
From: Noddy on 25 Mar 2010 18:07 "Premier" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote in message news:hogf93$rlj$1(a)news-01.bur.connect.com.au... > On what grounds???? How would you improve it??? Stop making it :) -- Regards, Noddy.
From: D Walford on 25 Mar 2010 18:44
On 26/03/2010 6:57 AM, Premier wrote: > No car has really made any inroads into the Falcon/Holden domination - > with the possible exception of the Magna in the mid 80's up to the early > 90's (it sold about 40,000 one year by memory - and I bet many of these > would have come from Falcon/Commodore sales) - but of course we know > what happened later. > Corolla has out sold Commodore on more than one month over the last couple of years so its not true to say no one has made inroads. Overall Toyota sales of all models are almost double those of any other manufacturer so even Commodore is not doing all that well compared to how well it sold in the past. The one thing locally made cars had going for them in the past was that they were good value for money but IMHO that's no longer true, I also think that many people, even those with families have realised that they really don't need a large sedan when much smaller cars serve their needs just as well and are a lot cheaper to buy and run. Daryl |