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Originally Posted by paulvdb
Even though I'm a Ford owner at the moment, I have in the past been a Holden owner as well (VL Commodore) and can't really understand some of the silly comments in this thread. Both the Commodore and Falcon are basic family cars that need to appeal to as many people as possible and date well for 3-9 years. That means that neither design is going to have anything radical or massively different to what you've seen in the past - Hence the reason the new Camry and Aurion aren't all that wierd either. Radical car buyers can buy something from a radical car supplier but generally that's only going to be 1-5% of the buying public. GM isn't going to release a way-out car that 1-5% of the public think looks fantastic, nor will Ford.
Generally people like plain unconfronting cars. The only reason the 380 isn't selling well is that it had a dodgy reputation even before it was released and now has just as horrible resale as the Magna. The Camry and Corolla is proof that Australians are quite happy buying boring cars. All we need to do is convince these same people that the Commodore and Falcon are just as efficient as a Camry, much roomier and just as reliable, and then the GM/Ford product will sell again.
Mitsu only need to do a buy one-get one free and they'll be on the map again (until resale time) :-)
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Exactly right! Some sense spoken at last. Look what happened the last time Ford tried to move outside the square (so to speak) with Taurus
: and yes the AU - which was designed to co-habit with Taurus. And here we have Ford fans picking the S..t out of what looks to be an improvement on what has already been kicking their asses :lookedat:
Workitout! What is also worrying is that when we release Orion, Holden will be ready to unleash their REAL VE with more swept back looks of the Torana (albeit updated) that everyone raved about. Too early to be judging those that have been leading the way so far I think