Best V8 Sales in 5 years
Joshua Dowling
Carpoint
Crisis? What oil crisis? Holden V8 is roaring along
On the eve of the launch of Australia's most fuel-efficient car, the new Toyota Prius, Holden has revealed that our love affair with V8s is far from over.
Holden has released detailed figures for Commodore and Statesman that show sales of V8s last month were at their highest since the recent oil crisis.
In June, one in four Commodores and Statesmans sold was a V8. Last year, the average was one in five.
That is, of the 6570 Commodore sedans, wagons, utes and Statesman and Caprice models sold in June, 1682 were V8s.
Incredibly, Holden says it could have sold more V8s but it ran out of stock.
"Lower petrol prices were definitely a factor, but we also believe our new [Active Fuel Management] helped sales as well," said Holden's executive director of sales and marketing, Alan Batey. He said this was evidenced by the swing to V8s with automatic transmissions (AFM is only available on auto transmission), which accounted for the majority of sales.
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