Large cars dying?

[turbodewd]

If I read another so-called journo say that Aussies are turning their backs on large sedans I will spew. These mongos are being fooled by the stats.

1. The Commodore is no.2 and the Falcon will be top 10 in monthly vehicle sales by the end of June. Their relative market share isnt what it was because tariffs have come down and aussies are richer.

2. Most families these days own TWO cars, and in many of those cases one is a large sedan. My family has an XR6T and my mrs has a Mazda 3. When I grew up my olds had one car for quite a while.

3. Your typical commodore and Falcon costs much more than a corolla so its high placing is commendable.

4. (neg) Admittedly fleet sales make up a big % of the sales of corollas, commodores, falcons.

5. Ford successfully hived off some falcon sales into Territory sales - thats not a failure, thats meeting customer demand.

6. Tariffs on imported cars have been reduced from heaps to 10% (currently, due to be 5% by 2010). So the local manufacturers are still competing despite our tiny population.

7. The f*ckin Falcon XR6 Turbo rocks! And poos all over any old grandpa, who usually is an average driver, in his poopy camry. (compelling argument hey!)