Citroen cans Australia.

[smoo]

https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-new...ving-australia

Is this the start of established/legacy makers seeing a retreat from this market.
Who is next on the chopping block… Jeep, Honda, Fiat, Alfa Romeo. Renault, Maserati, Jaguar?

Chinese makers are ready to dump a whole lot of awkward and underwhelming looking vehicles into the market. Give it ten years and they’ll have the market covered, will have driven out financially struggling Euro and Asian brands and increased their prices to a level they know the market blindly accepts.

https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-new...llenge-toyota#

[Franco Cozzo]

Won't be losing any sleep about seeing those clowns exit, France should stick to Olympics opening ceremonies,

I feel for their 3 customers here, I've only ever met one person who bought a new Citroen, the 'cactus' because he liked it's weird looks.

[Citroënbender]

I’m disappointed.

It intrigues me that PSA never did anything like the way Ford licenced reproduction parts, they have lost potential millions on Dee and 2CV series vehicles.

[Fatbob103]

I had the misfortune in a past life of having to drive a Berlingo for a work car.
Was just another insult from a shit company.

[simon varley]

Originally Posted by Fatbob103

I had the misfortune in a past life of having to drive a Berlingo for a work car.
Was just another insult from a shit company.

shame the new DS3 and DS5 never came here. They were damn good.

[EBSXR6]

https://www.autoblog.com/2024/07/25/...-tavares-says/

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by EBSXR6

https://www.autoblog.com/2024/07/25/...-tavares-says/

Stellantis ready to kill brands and fix U.S. problems, CEO Tavares says

Excellent, so Stellantis is going to kill itself entirely

[EBSXR6]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Excellent, so Stellantis is going to kill itself entirely

They don't have to try too hard.

[CyberWasp]

I am sure this won't be the last. There will be others to follow fairly soon I would think.

[simon varley]

in part, I expect this is due to us still being a Euro5 market. RHD Eu5 is a tiny and shrinking market, and the cost of developing cars for us is likely now unsustainable.

[danzvtil]

All the weird beard academics who would never buy one are up in arms.

[Adamz Ghia]

The C4 dancing robot was easily one of the best auto commercials of all time.

Shame they’re gone. They might not have been the best cars, but at least they dared to look different.

[Sprintey]

Originally Posted by smoo

https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-new...ving-australia

Is this the start of established/legacy makers seeing a retreat from this market.
Who is next on the chopping block… Jeep, Honda, Fiat, Alfa Romeo. Renault, Maserati, Jaguar?

Chinese makers are ready to dump a whole lot of awkward and underwhelming looking vehicles into the market. Give it ten years and they’ll have the market covered, will have driven out financially struggling Euro and Asian brands and increased their prices to a level they know the market blindly accepts.

https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-new...llenge-toyota#

First missile that lofts over the Taiwan strait and parts become unobtanium, 2027 is well within that 10 year timeframe

[Dr Terry]

Not that I will miss them, not a big fan, but I believe that Citroen brand is/was the longest lasting brand to be on the Australian market.

I think it was sold here continuously from around 1918 to now, except for the WWII when virtually no new cars were sold.

Dr Terry

[Crazy Dazz]

Haven't paid much attention, but haven't recent models just tended to be slightly different versions of a common platform? And it seemed that trend was going to continue, with the acquisition of Opel and merger with Fiat.

I looked, very briefly, at a C5-X. Apart from looking like an Elephant sat on the back, underneath it's basically a Pug. With the added disadvantage of being built in China.

[Crazy Dazz]

Originally Posted by smoo

Is this the start of established/legacy makers seeing a retreat from this market.
Who is next on the chopping block… Jeep, Honda, Fiat, Alfa Romeo. Renault, Maserati, Jaguar?

Chinese makers are ready to dump

It's interesting, and possibly ironic. The recent trend has been towards those brands trying to trade on reputation, to flog us crap made in China and India.

I'm not sure how that's supposed to work?

People buy Chinese cars because they're cheap. They'll buy Havals, STDs, WMDs, etc, because they don't know any better.

Yet people have traditionally bought these brands out of some sense of quality, brand-loyalty, or eccentric snobbery. I don't see how the two groups connect.