Yeah I was a bit wasted when I wrote that.. Thank fk for auto correct lol
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Any more up to date figures? Interested to see how the entry into Aussie market is going!
Total sales figues.....
"The brand has sold 463 vehicles to March 2012" (Copied from Caradvice.com.au, this should state 2013 not 2012)
I'd say entry is relatively slow..... Early days however.
I hope they don't drop their sponsorship to the Melbourne footy club. We need them!!! So hopefully sales pick up! We are in the news just about every week though (just not for the right reasons) so exposure would still be high lol.
clearly not an issue with the sponsor then! lol
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Please enlighten all of us about what exactly was so good about holden handling opel models?
Was it the substandard servicing and knowledge about the cars?
The astra g was only so successful because import credits kept the price down. The Australian public do not accept expensive holdens, especially 4 cylinder ones.
Opel have a much better chance selling their cars under their name and the connotations about opel being an affordable German brand. After all how do you think a 40k astra would go against the new my14 cruze sriv with the same 1.6 for less than 30k list price?
All's I said is that it MIGHT sell better if it had a Holden Badge as Opel isn't well known here. I've never had Opel customer service but I'm guessing since they are pretty new here their Customer service would probably be good for the first few years anyway.
But I hope the sales pick up soon as it looks like a really nice car the 2 liter turbo anyway :)