Many years ago, 1978 to be precise, some A grade clown motoring journo, his name eludes me now, made an incredible prediction. He made the statement that by 1981 Holden would be the shining car company of Australia with all of its products leading the sales race, especially so the Commodore.
He also went onto to say that Toyota would be second, Chrysler somehwere after and Ford, well as far as he was concerned, Ford wouldn't even be in the race - read Chrysler's actual fate.
Roll forward a few years (1981/1982) and Holden had been caught out cheating. That is, GMH had been 'selling' as many cars to all of its Dealers (not real sales to the public) with the instruction to 'register' all of these vehicle, namely the Commodore. Why so, they were deseperate to stay in front of Ford in the sales race. Fact was though, the Falcon XD/XE was now outselling Commodore and would continue to do so for a number of years to come. In essence, the move to the smaller VB Commodore got all of the scumbag journo's excited but did nothing for the motoring public. Hence falling behind the Falcon.
Therefore, just because some halfwit un-informed journo makes a statement about the future and a biased one at that, does not make it true.
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