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I can imagine the thoughts of the 1000 staff..."This better not cut into my lunch break".
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Guess Who's Back?
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It is red.
It is moving forward. It is uniquely Australian. It is moving forward. It is somewhat boganish. It is moving forward. I mean the car of course........... |
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Interesting - the lower half of the front bar shares the same " kinetic " design as the FORD.
I guess this will be the demise of the Commodore........at least it will still be locally built in Australia......and I think its one of the better looking small to medium cars out there anyways.
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The upper and lower grill designs don't complement each other at all.
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They should have taken the opportunity to badge it as a "Torana". Imagine the SLR6000 - 6 litre chev donk, mated to front or AWD; weapon!
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advert already, quick to market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WAix...layer_embedded
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Chevrolet version of it looks way better.
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This just makes me want to throw up...their good.
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I have answered the question, moving forward......... Althought it would really appeal to my sense of humour if the bogans started putting bowties on them as well. So much so that I would from that point on refer to the bowtie as an "Epica" badge. e.g. Hey mate is that an Epica ute, very metrosexual of you to buy one instead of a real commodore....... |
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It is going to be very very interesting to see how this things sells & what it does to Commodore sales!!
It is nice to see an Australian built small car again, even if it does have a Holddn bagde on it. |
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They apparantly put up around $300 million of their own money, and have been selling on average 2000 per month since may 2009. A $20990 car, must be leaving Holdens at less than $16000 add $1600 gst, $700 rego, $700 stamp duty, $600 transport, $1000 dealer profit, $400 financing. $ 300 million written off over 5 years @ 10% interest gives a yearly cost of approx $80 million. $16000 - (80,000,000 / 25,000) =$12800 $12800, then you have to take out wages, parts, supplied parts, advertising for the car, all the fixed costs of running the plant. I think the cruze is going to be the car that will give Ford local production the edge LOL. |
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I'm interested in this 1.4LT engine, weird seeing a peak power figure under 5000 RPM because on modern 4 cylinder engines its usually 6500 or something fairly high like that.
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nice of the govt to help out holden with some free promotion. just the sort of thing you need the PM to endorse your product.
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Why cann't Ford get the PM to launch a new car!!!!!!!!!
Why cann't Ford learn from Holden !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New Focus had better be really really good or its down the gurgler!!! They even have a V series in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Can anyone say "wheel's car of the yr. 2011" The new direction for the Australian motoring enthusiast. The new Aussie ....... I can see all. the drivel now from Paul Gover etal.......
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But they have the problem that they lose a $28000 sale when a commodore is not sold, and gain a $15-16000 sale when a cruze is bought in its place. Even if cruze were ever to reach the dizzy heights of a corolla in sales, its still only going to amount to 45000 sales a year. Just not a competitive total to be making, when most of its competitors factories pump out 400,000 cars a year, in lower wage countries. |
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![]() Good to see the revised front end and that Holden engineers overcome the challenges of fitting a grill that could let a bit of air in and still support a Holden badge that big. Presumably it can be detached and used as a spare wheel. On a serious not, for the sake of the Aussie car industry, hopefully this car will sell very well. Dan |
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Doesn't look to bad. Craps on the Ford variant for looks that's for sure.
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Just what working families need!
Still, no matter how good or bad the car may be, it's good to see something Australian-made endorsed.
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They should put the diesel in the SRI variants....360NM
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More Australian jobs is a good thing. Good on GMH.
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