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Originally Posted by Bobman
If you can't please your potential buyers/customers you ultimately fail as a business.
That's kind of what happened though eh?
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so you walk in to your local furniture shop (<-insert any other industry as an example). you find a nice item, australian made etc. then you see an item that will do the job seemingly just as well, looks to be made reasonably well, and is a fraction of the cost due to it being an imported item. these days money is THE critical factor. people won't pay extra for a local product when the cost of living is spiralling out of control. its easy to blame the products or the consumer, but there are far to many other factors that can't be ignored, and lack of protection and support is at top of the list.
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Originally Posted by |Nate
When you put them (FH and VF) together, the average buyer will see "Auto parking, auto wipers, auto windows, adaptive cruise, blind spot assist and other fancy features" and go "wow, let's get that one," completely brushing aside the Falcon, as it has no tech appeal. We all know that the Falcon has always had a far superior driveline, but the general public couldn't give two stuffs about that.
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its not always about the tech. how much tech did the corolla and mazda3 have over the last few years. the current models may have caught up somewhat, but they certainly weren't the most techy cars when they were topping the charts in previous years.
also, commodore's seem to have a much larger loyal customer base. blind loyalty some call it, and critisize it. ford fans are apparently 'smarter' as they won't just blindly purchase a car forthe badge, and then whinge when falcon doesn't sell like commodore. ah the irony.