June 2013 Sales Figures

[Brazen]

Territory 1574
Falcon 1169
Falcon Ute 620

Total 3363 Falcon-esque sales for the month. Excellent really.

[Brazen]

Toyota have the 0% finance back on the Camry, they are really pushing their local models hard.

[prydey]

Originally Posted by LeadFoot81

Better to move every unit you have and miss out on some sales, than to have stock sitting around.

this.

all this talk about 'supply issues' and then a couple of posts later, a discussion on ranger 'missing out on critical sales'!! can't have it both ways.

ranger isn't missing out on sales if they are selling all that they bring here. if Ford only allocate 2500 units for australia each month (give or take) and they sell all of them, then i don't see the problem.

could they increase their market share with better availability? no doubt they could. what if they upped the allocation to 3000+ units per month and then had excess stock?? i know which situation i would prefer. its not like they are the only manufacturer with a waiting list on some of their cars either.

with the segmentation in the market i think ford would be very happy with their progress over the last few months. they have increased their market share month on month. the imports are great products and doing well.

[Gobes32]

Originally Posted by Brazen

Territory 1574
Falcon 1169
Falcon Ute 620

Total 3363 Falcon-esque sales for the month. Excellent really.

At 148 a day, it is a higher number than the theoretical 2960 a month Ford are building too.........

[Bossxr8]

With 6 down days in the 3rd quarter and a possible 7 more in the 4th quarter I dont think Ford have much hope of maintaining these numbers beyond this month, but it was a good result anyway. Might have helped clear a little excess stock.

[jpd80]

Yep, the locals came back to life last month as did Focus, I'd say it's a good result given the news last month.
maybe sparking a bit more interest in Falcon and Territory is just the thing to kick sales along a bit.....

In America Ford has what it calls its super segment, Fiesta, Focus C-Max, Escape and Fusion.
Ford sees a lot of cross shopping iwith these models and all seem to benefit from the others.
Maybe FoA could do similar but with Fiesta, Ecosport, Focus and Kuga in a united showroom..

[FalconXV]

Opposite to what I expected; Could news of its impending death have made people realise what a great product it is?
More to the point, that was the first full month post-announcement, good to see sales didn't start to taper off....

[prydey]

Originally Posted by FalconXV

Opposite to what I expected; Could news of its impending death have made people realise what a great product it is?
More to the point, that was the first full month post-announcement, good to see sales didn't start to taper off....

why just look at falcon sales in isolation? everything was up. end of financial year is the reason. nothing to do with falcon buyers coming out of woodwork etc.

[FalconXV]

Originally Posted by prydey

why just look at falcon sales in isolation? everything was up. end of financial year is the reason. nothing to do with falcon buyers coming out of woodwork etc.

So you think the announcement didn't have some kind of impact? FPV dealers were reporting increased interest from collectors so there was. Also, your 'everything was up' point doesn't stack up; Car sales in general have gone up over the last few years yet local model's numbers have plummeted.

[Polyal]

I dont think we should be using FPV as a yard stick for anything related to the Falcon status to be honest.

[vztrt]

Originally Posted by FalconXV

So you think the announcement didn't have some kind of impact? FPV dealers were reporting increased interest from collectors so there was. Also, your 'everything was up' point doesn't stack up; Car sales in general have gone up over the last few years yet local model's numbers have plummeted.

I believe even though sales went up, it was still down on last year.

[b0son]

Originally Posted by FalconXV

So you think the announcement didn't have some kind of impact? FPV dealers were reporting increased interest from collectors so there was.

Was this based on one article where one dealer said 'I had three phone calls asking about FPVs this week' ?

LOL.

[strobe]

2012 June May Diff % Change
Falcon 1431 1008 423 42%
Ute 619 584 35 6%
Terry 1800 1280 520 41%

2013 June May Diff % Change
Falcon 1169 707 462 65%
Ute 620 462 158 34%
Terry 1574 1139 435 38%

Think it's pretty clear that while sales are down YtY, there was more significant change MtM for falcon. 2011 was 39% MtM for Falcon and 28% for Ute.

[FalconXV]

Originally Posted by vztrt

I believe even though sales went up, it was still down on last year.

Still, it's significant because its the first time sales have jumped like that in a while. Strobe's post above tells us its not just because of EOFY- theres definately more interest. Or maybe people didn't want to wait for their VF's.

Originally Posted by Polyal

I dont think we should be using FPV as a yard stick for anything related to the Falcon status to be honest.

It does to an extent IMO.
Seems all this talk of Falcon has put it in people's minds, any press is good press. I'm sure the bubble will burst (if thats what it is), but as I said, this is very contrary to what I expected would happen. Just a thought anyway.

[Focused]

Focus: 2020
Not bad!
http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mell...257B9E00023830

[prydey]

Originally Posted by FalconXV

Still, it's significant because its the first time sales have jumped like that in a while. Strobe's post above tells us its not just because of EOFY- theres definately more interest.

top 10 sales June v May

Hilux 4931 v 3665
i30 4599 v 2512
corolla 4197 v 3640
3 3672 v 3054
triton 3459 v 2129
navara 2665 v 1388
camry 2652 v 1934
cruze 2378 v 2133
pulsar 2331 v 1416
cx-5 2306 v 1773


this is what i mean when i say, don't just look at falcon in isolation. most makes had a big jump up in june and none of them have made announcements about leaving australia etc.

sometimes, it just is what it is. no point reading too much into it.

[bigwil]

Does anyone know total Falcon figures for the year so far?

[Pepscobra]

and it aint over till the fat lady sings, as they say!

[MrZ]

Originally Posted by bigwil

does anyone know total falcon figures for the year so far?

5070.

[LeadFoot81]

Originally Posted by Focused

Focus: 2020
Not bad!
http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mell...257B9E00023830

2020 well deserved sales.

[dane33]

How'd the Kuga and Mondeo go?

[Pepscobra]

Originally Posted by MrZ

5070.

How times change!
Falcon used to sell that in a month :(

[vztrt]

Originally Posted by FalconXV

Still, it's significant because its the first time sales have jumped like that in a while. Strobe's post above tells us its not just because of EOFY- theres definately more interest. Or maybe people didn't want to wait for their VF's.

Yeah last time it jumped was june last year.

If it holds this number next month then it will be more then EOFY. So July figures will be indicative.

[BDA074]

Just wandering if the June & H1 statistics will be published soon?

[MrZ]

Originally Posted by BDA074

Just wandering if the June & H1 statistics will be published soon?

Fat chance, maybe sometime in 2014 if we're lucky :P

[russellw]

Originally Posted by MrZ

Fat chance, maybe sometime in 2014 if we're lucky :P

It's been a busy month and given that I have a normal day job they have to wait until time permits.

Originally Posted by BDA074

Just wandering if the June & H1 statistics will be published soon?

The first set have been uploaded now. I'll try and get the supplementary stats done today but the H1 segment analysis will have to wait.

Cheers
Russ

[BDA074]

Thanks Russell. Appreciated...
Am still amazed how well Honda are doing. I see nothing in their line up I like...
Holden struggling overall big time too...

[buggerlugs]

Originally Posted by MrZ

Fat chance, maybe sometime in 2014 if we're lucky :P

Now, would you like to thank Russell ?????

[MrZ]

Originally Posted by buggerlugs

Now, would you like to thank Russell ?????

I will, but I was referring to the 1H summary, which still isn't up.

[russellw]

Originally Posted by MrZ

I will, but I was referring to the 1H summary, which still isn't up.

You're a hard taskmaster - perhaps you'd like to do it yourself given that all the raw data can be extracted from the 6 months of individual data?

Russ