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Originally Posted by griswold44
Pretty much all of them have better fuel-economy, which is the #1 selling factor in this class, and I bet all of them are capable of getting better crash ratings than a Poor.
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If that was the #1 selling factor in the class, then the Aveo wouldn't be the best-seling car in its class. Echo beat it in fuel economy, too, and Toyota pulled it.
Top selling vehicles tend to stay on top, even when competing models beat them in one category or another.
I don't understand why everyone on page 2 is acting like the Aveo is going to be unseated. It sold 3x what the Yaris did.
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Originally Posted by Mikkoo
Yes, fuel economy is the primary reason besides low entry prices in this segment. The Aveo just doesn't cut the mustard when it comes to being
fuel efficient. All the other vehicles in it's segment get much better mileage.
The Aveo is in for a tough fight to regain it's leadership in it's segment.
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Regain? It hasn't lost it.
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Originally Posted by SUPERBADD75
uh, okay. the Cobalt was introduced in 2005, the Corolla in 2003. more importantly the Cobalt is all new on a new platform whereas the Corolla is more or less an update, albeit a rather extensive one. the fact that the Cobalt only outsold the Corolla by 10 units with a performance variant available is pretty sad IMO. i don't think that's worth cheering over.
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The Corolla is far from old. And Corolla sales include Matrix sales, so your performance variant comment is useless. Also, Corolla has a sport trim in XRS. And peformance models make up such a small percentage of sales that they don't matter.
So, yea. There's nothing "sad" about a relatively new model outselling the class leader. That's actually a pretty major accomplishment.
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Originally Posted by hudson32
Yes, it only sold 7 more, with less incentive deals of course. But the Lucerne is a nice car, the only thing I dislike about it is that 3800 V6 engine.
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Lucerne sales are 91% retail, and rebates are less than $1000. I hate the vehicle, but you can't take its decent sales (so far) away from it.