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Jim
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Lincolnshire, England
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I was just wondering how well does the focus sell in AUS? over here it is the no.1 selling car and has been for the last 8 years
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Adelaide
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Hi, there's some info here on Aussie car sales (near last paragraph) :
http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0...-21822,00.html The Focus is finally outselling the Astra- only six or so months ago the Astra was killing the Focus for sales and had been forever. The new model is definitely a winner over here.
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Jim
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Lincolnshire, England
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when you say astra, is that vauxhall? or i think it is holden??? over there
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Jim
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Lincolnshire, England
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well the sooner the focus is the top car the better!, when did you get the new focus?
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Our Focus ST (XR5 Turbo in Australia, to coincide with the Falcon XR range) is imported from Germany though. We only get around 40 units per month. Hit or a Miss? Most probabaly a hit. Its been a while since Ford small cars have been popular with misses with the KA and old model Focus. Before that we had the Ford Festiva (small 3 or 5 door hatch aka KIA Avella) and the Ford Laser (Restyled and rebadged Mazda 323) |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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http://www.holden.com.au/www-holden/...y?vehicleid=26 I think the Astra will start getting back sales if/ when they put a better engine than the lame 1.8l petrol that is currently fitted. The AH model is too heavy for that engine! We've just had the diesel turbo and SRi petrol turbo Astra's released over here too, will be interesting to see how they sell. Holden also sell the Astra wagon over here. Plus the three door / five door hatches, but no sedan (we did get one in the previous model shape IIRC?) Ford.... well they only sell five door hatchback and four door sedan 2.0l petrol Focus, plus the XR5 turbo (ST in your language) in only five door. No Estate/ wagon. :(
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Jim
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Lincolnshire, England
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well we get the estate, sedan, 3dr (the 3dr is the uglist!) and soon they will launch the cc version which has a folding metal roof, they also sell the focus c-max but that is a rather boring MPV. over here i think ford is about to hit the big time again with the s-max, which i have started a thread about because it is really attractive and quite fast (has the ST engine) and ford is getting oders even before it has been launched. ford sells on average 10,000 focuses here and is the top seller followed by the vauxhall astra and them the ford fiesta and other cars like volkswagens golf, renaults clio and peugeots 206/7. and the mondeo is in there too somwhere.
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