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Given there's no entry level sub $20K new cars anymore I wonder if it will further drive up demand for used cars in this price range of there'll be a move towards scooters/motorbikes for cheap transport.
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Whilst none of them are what we would call "exciting" they are still fine as cheap, reliable transport with warranty (up to 7years on a few cases).
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Makes you wonder how much longer the Camry has in Aus... Another 3 years before they ditch it?
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Used RAM prices are insane at the moment. 2 and 3 year old vehicles are being advertised for more than new price. |
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Camry will be an insignificant part of their range soon enough. It’s interesting manufacturers are upping prices at a time when young people’s attitudes towards car ownership are becoming more indifferent. |
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Hybrid camry is a decent thing, 5L/100km on the highway - I always thought they weren't that good on the open road but that's what I got between Canberra and Goulburn multiple times. Standard Camry does about 7L/100km.
It's pricing was always very cheap when released, only a matter of time before prices went up. But end of the day 90% goes to fleets. What ever happened to the people who said cars would get cheaper once local manufacturing finished? Ironically it's probably now viable to have a local industry with the way pricing is going, demand and wait times.
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The problem had become the plant capacity of around 100,000 cars a year just can't compete with other plants making 200,000 - 250,000 cars a year. Makes the production costs per unit so much lower. And by that time Thailand, Argentina and South Africa were already building them, so it would have just stolen production from them. The decision should have been made before the T6 was released in 2011, but at that stage (decision would have been made around 2008?) the world was in the grip of the GFC, and the other great white hope of saving broadmeadows, the Global RWD program, was still in the planning stage before it was axed. And no one saw medium truck sales exploding in the next decade. The timing was just all wrong. It is a shame though. With all design and engineering happening here, it should have been built here as well. The horse had already bolted by that stage. Ironically the prototype Ranger/Everests are hand built at Broady. |
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Would have been interesting to see especially if they could have kept building Territory as well or something similar?
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The FTA with Thailand and the levy they slapped on cars specifically killing importation of Territory still burns me up...made it BMW X5 price.
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The graphical statistics for February are finally available in the Tech portal.
This will probably be the last time these are posted here as we no longer have access to the data files from VFACTs. I'd like to thank a fellow member (Chris) for assisting us with these over the last 14 months after the closure of AutoNews despite him actually being in a Toyota dealership! It's been much appreciated but unless someone else has access and can provide the raw data, this will be the end of them on this forum after 17 years; 417 articles and 12,889 charts /graphs.
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Thank you for your work Russell. Much appreciated. Thank you.
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