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15-08-2024, 04:11 PM
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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# |
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15-08-2024, 04:15 PM
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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. |
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15-08-2024, 04:45 PM
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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. |
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15-08-2024, 04:49 PM
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15-08-2024, 05:26 PM
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15-08-2024, 07:48 PM
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I am sure this won't be the last. There will be others to follow fairly soon I would think.
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15-08-2024, 08:37 PM
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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.
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15-08-2024, 10:32 PM
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All the weird beard academics who would never buy one are up in arms.
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16-08-2024, 03:39 PM
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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. |
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16-08-2024, 04:28 PM
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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 |
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03-09-2024, 05:13 PM
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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.
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03-09-2024, 05:22 PM
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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.
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Citroen cans Australia.
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