May 2006 new car sales

Falcon Freak · 31-05-2006, 07:53 AM

Month 5 of 12 finishes today. I suspect another miserable month for new vehicle sales due to the inflated petrol prices. My predictions:

Falcon - 3,200
Territory - 1,300
Ute - 1,200
Fairlane - 100

FF

blackahcdx · 31-05-2006, 08:54 AM

i didn't think fairlane had sold 100 cars so far this year?! :P

marcosambrose · 31-05-2006, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Falcon Freak

Month 5 of 12 finishes today. I suspect another miserable month for new vehicle sales due to the inflated petrol prices. My predictions:

Falcon - 3,200
Territory - 1,300
Ute - 1,200
Fairlane - 100

FF

Thats more optimistic than man landing on mars.

Falcon - 2800
Territory - 1400
Ute - 1100
Fairlane - 40
Focus - 1500
Fiesta - 800

vztrt · 31-05-2006, 05:16 PM

It seems to have been another slow month at Broady but all June and July XR's have been presold.

Scruba · 31-05-2006, 05:24 PM

At least I helped Ford gain 1 of those numbers :hihi:

Smoke Pursuit · 31-05-2006, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by vztrt

It seems to have been another slow month at Broady but all June and July XR's have been presold.

Whys that so do you know??

Large Fleet pre orders before end of financial year?

Usually June is a better month so hopefully things pick up.

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vztrt · 31-05-2006, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ShockWaveXR6na

Whys that so do you know??

Large Fleet pre orders before end of financial year?

Usually June is a better month so hopefully things pick up.

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Yeah it was a massive fleet order that Ford had made.
Less Territories will be made in the next two months of production because of this.

Falcon Freak · 31-05-2006, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by vztrt

Yeah it was a massive fleet order that Ford had made.
Less Territories will be made in the next two months of production because of this.

Any idea who was this fleet order for?

FF

vztrt · 31-05-2006, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Falcon Freak

Any idea who was this fleet order for?

FF

No idea, wasn't told that. All I know is it's a big order!

Gadgetman · 01-06-2006, 10:19 AM

3200 odd falcons
2000+ focus best ever month
700+ fiesta best ever month
1600+ Falcon Utility
1700+ territory
will have exact figures shortly

Smoke Pursuit · 01-06-2006, 10:26 AM

Gebus, Ford are finally starting to get the figures they want out of the Focus, its only taken 4 years!

Mark351 · 01-06-2006, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Gadgetman

3200 odd falcons

Couldn't sell any good ones?

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Smoke Pursuit · 01-06-2006, 11:46 AM

Even ones you mean!

rst2000 · 01-06-2006, 12:30 PM

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Gebus, Ford are finally starting to get the figures they want out of the Focus, its only taken 4 years!

i've been seeing alot more of these on my daily run to work...especially in silver.

vztrt · 01-06-2006, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ShockWaveXR6na

Gebus, Ford are finally starting to get the figures they want out of the Focus, its only taken 4 years!

Alot of the problem Ford had was issues bringing good build quality volume cars to Australia. They recently started playing the focus adds again so the car has been relaunched (with the XR5T) and now Ford have the numbers to take on the corolla.

Smoke Pursuit · 01-06-2006, 05:16 PM

When u say good build quality was it fair to say that the first lot of LS focuses were pretty ordinary, i know our July 05 CL has very ordinary body / paint work.

vztrt · 01-06-2006, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ShockWaveXR6na

When u say good build quality was it fair to say that the first lot of LS focuses were pretty ordinary, i know our July 05 CL has very ordinary body / paint work.

I still dont think it's anything crash hot well the latest Focus I was in was pretty ordinary.
But the body and paint were a huge issue over there and required Ford Oz guys to go over there to straighten the things up.

Chuggwald · 03-06-2006, 01:50 PM

Any updates yet?

vztrt · 03-06-2006, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuggwald

Any updates yet?

I get the results 3 days after the month starts so it should be there waiting for me on monday. Not sure about everyone else.

Falcon Freak · 03-06-2006, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by vztrt

I get the results 3 days after the month starts so it should be there waiting for me on monday. Not sure about everyone else.

I expect to receive the vFacts data on Tuesday.

FF

Dave_au · 03-06-2006, 08:45 PM

Best wait for Vfacts, over the past few months all guesses have been way off, probably be more accruate by using a dart board to predict the figures.

Falcon only outsold Mazda 3 by 8 units to remain in the top three, I would be interested in seeing how they go this month.

Fleet sales are great for Ford, but chances are with the upcoming end of financial year all makes will be detecting an increase in fleet sales.

The rumour afoot on the AMC website is suggesting that 380 sold around 1,500 units, I don't know if that is a reasonable estimation, sales figures have been hovering around the 1100 mark previously. Still, 380 must be eating someone's market share in the large segment - Camry?

Cobra · 04-06-2006, 12:05 PM

Good to see Focus sales are up, but I thought it would need a helping hand to happen. Fuel being so expensive was always going to help get more through the door. As for the old Focus, they never deserved to sell as many as Ford intended. They were quite frankly, in most cases, rubbish!

Falcon Freak · 04-06-2006, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuggwald

Any updates yet?

RATT should have the numbers tomorrow.

FF

Chuggwald · 05-06-2006, 04:54 PM

Hopefully Falcon sold over 3k at least :/

Would be good if Focus has started actually 'competing' with Astra now (even though the Focus is a far nicer car).

vztrt · 05-06-2006, 06:05 PM

Here's a quick look

Overall
Holden Commodore 4,362
Toyota Corolla 3,750
Ford Falcon 3,388
Mazda3 2,918
Toyota Camry (4 cyl)1,479
Mitsubishi Lancer 1,373
Mitsubishi 380 1,201

Utes
Toyota Hilux 4X4 1,855
Nissan Navara 4X4 1,498
Ford Falcon Ute 1,488
Toyota Hilux 4X2 1,382
Holden Utility 4X2 1,252

TurboDOHCI6 · 05-06-2006, 06:08 PM

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Busine...359665072.html

"Holden still had the top selling car, its Commodore attracting 4,362 buyers to put it ahead of the Toyota Corolla on 3,750 and the Ford Falcon on 3,388.

Other models to post strong sales were the Mazda 3 (2,918), the Toyota Yaris (2,495), the Toyota Camry (2,350), Ford Focus (2,320), the Toyota Hi-Lux 4x4 (1,855), the Hyundai Getz (1,849) and the Holden Astra (1,842)."

Deadman · 05-06-2006, 06:11 PM

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Mitsubishi Lancer 1,373
Mitsubishi 380 1,201

Very interesting... Can't recall the Lancer sales being that good lately. I don't think it even topped 850 last month. And 380 is around 150 or so up on last month to.

Focus had a blinder!

vztrt · 05-06-2006, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Deadman

Focus had a blinder!

Ford finally have enough cars to meet demand.
Those numbers should stay up there as they want about 2500 a month if I remember correctly.

But your going to notice alot of small cars will be selling well with petrol prices on the increase.

charles_wif_xf · 05-06-2006, 06:42 PM

How in the fudge did the Commonwhore still manage to get the no 1 spot?

MickyB · 05-06-2006, 06:43 PM

http://www.autoindustries.com.au/sales/2006/5/
That breaks it down a bit more, apologies if someone has already linked to it.