New Holdens are in early this year!
May 18th 2013 13:01
Brace yourselves Holden fans, its time for a new Commodore!
Once a long time ago, this news would have been greeted by queues of loyal Holden buyers outside their local dealership all ready to place orders for the newcomer.
Sadly for Holden those days are long gone, in fact Holden have taken a leaf from the Mitsubishi big car marketing book and decide the way to sell the VF is to discount the hell out of it! That’s right Holden have dropped the prices across the VF range anywhere from $3500 to $10,000!
Recall if you will, the Mitsubishi 380 (actually a Magna regardless of nametag) after facelifting the TE-TL Magna more times than even Mitsubishi count the 380 arrived with much fanfare – the only problem was, no one noticed!
Mitsubishi decide the only way to move the Series I, II and III models lying around in dealerships was to move the price point until buyers starting sniffing.
Holden is now faced with a slightly different problem and it has a couple of prongs – Small car is now king and Australia has forged a love affair with the SUV and traditional big cars are now about as popular as Rolf Harris, which is a shame because in reality Australia (read Holden) builds the best rear wheel drive sedans in the world. Forget about Jags, BMW’s and Mercedes for a minute, value for money these cars are the goods!
No doubt at the moment there are a lot of crossed fingers at Holden HQ, there needs to be because the Commodore replacement will be Front wheel drive, thirstier and uglier then the Commodore Don’t believe me?
Just take a look at the upcoming Holden Malibu to see why!
New VF Commodore
Once a long time ago, this news would have been greeted by queues of loyal Holden buyers outside their local dealership all ready to place orders for the newcomer.
Recall if you will, the Mitsubishi 380 (actually a Magna regardless of nametag) after facelifting the TE-TL Magna more times than even Mitsubishi count the 380 arrived with much fanfare – the only problem was, no one noticed!
Mitsubishi decide the only way to move the Series I, II and III models lying around in dealerships was to move the price point until buyers starting sniffing.
Holden is now faced with a slightly different problem and it has a couple of prongs – Small car is now king and Australia has forged a love affair with the SUV and traditional big cars are now about as popular as Rolf Harris, which is a shame because in reality Australia (read Holden) builds the best rear wheel drive sedans in the world. Forget about Jags, BMW’s and Mercedes for a minute, value for money these cars are the goods!
No doubt at the moment there are a lot of crossed fingers at Holden HQ, there needs to be because the Commodore replacement will be Front wheel drive, thirstier and uglier then the Commodore Don’t believe me?
Holden Malibu - just peel the Chevy badge off!
Just take a look at the upcoming Holden Malibu to see why!
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