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Originally Posted by Cav
So what exactly went wrong with the Commodore?
Modern European styling.
Latest car gadgets.
Doing well in Supercars ( joke boys).
Should Holden have dropped the price?
Was the change of ownership of manufacturer the final knife in its back?
To me it seemed like it was a competitor to the Mondeo in its turbo petrol model. I think the prices were lineball.
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I still think back to 2007 I think it was, I was working for a Toyota dealer in sales. They released the all new Aurion - which they said would be a game changer. At least, that's what they were trying to instill. It had design input from whoever had worked on the BA I think it was. It looked great. Had a 200kw 6 and decent statistics.
But what seemed wrong about it?
...it was FWD.
At the time, all the Toyota spin you got from them was "FWD/RWD it doesn't really matter, the public are going to love this car."
The Australian market is fickle. They want what they want... and unfortunately due to the size of our market, we don't get what we want unfortunately. It's not acceptable for a manufacturer to feel like they can dictate what the market will take or wants - it's not going to work.
I think Holden would have been best to find a RWD somewhere/somehow or just not do it at all - and the end result seems to back this up.