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Originally Posted by ford&holden
I bet Mazda makes far more money on the 3 than Toyota makes on the corolla.
Toyota AUS is a now a fleet queen like Holden and Ford.
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Toyota is
the fleet queen now - that's why Camry sales are so high. Wait'll all those low-km two year old cars hit the saleyards - I predict a lot of private buyers who take a bath on resale jumping ship to Mazda, whose small-medium cars in the 2,3 and 6 are kicking Toycar's arse in comparos. In fact, I'd say Mazda is probably now the no. 1 private car vendor in Oz for straight passenger vehicles.
On one hand, stupid f#%&ing pollies for mandating guv'mints of all levels buy 4-cylinders, which means imports, on the other hand Holden selling more retail is good. The Commodore was always going to come back when the wagon hit. Since 2007 it's been like a runner missing an arm - just try running fast with just one.
It and the Ute, despite the downsizing of both, appear to be just what the market wants. If I was buying new, I'd be looking at a Calais wagon.
I think Ford's doing pretty well with the Falc considering the conditions they're selling in, stupid high petrol prices and slowing economic conditions - there's tons of user-choosers appearing here at work (Big T site), XR6s of both types and some Ghias and XTs. If petrol weren't so dear they might even be challenging Commys and certainly Toycar.