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Originally Posted by wrong generation
a bunch of the people i regularly see on xbox are from australia and they say the commodore is a total piece of crap and that the car is being discontinued as of 2014. and that some people will throw the chevy badges onto the car to try and get respect.
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Oh, a bunch of people on xbox said that the Commodore is a piece of crap. Well, that settles it.
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i would have no problems with an austrialian car coming here as that an austrialian car. but its majorly screwed up that the only thing gm can think to do is bring a car here from another country put their own badges on it rename it and claim it as an american car. they need to get their head out of their asses and start designing and building actual american cars here.
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LOLWUT? So GM can't bring cars to America if they are made in other countries? Please tell that to Ford and Chrysler.
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Originally Posted by Tru2Chevy
What I have read makes it seem like they plan to sell the VF Commodore through 2015 or 2016, then replace it with a global GM platform that will also be called Commodore. Sales of the Commodore have slumped some recently but since 2008 they have averaged ~42,500 Commodores sold in Australia each year, including a dip to only 30,532 last year when everyone knew a refresh was coming.
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VF will last another 3-4 years, but the Commodore has lost retail market share to smaller cars over the last few years due to the increase in fuel prices. Commodore is still one of the best selling cars in Australia, and that says a lot. Ford has lost a lot of market share with the Falcon, which is why Ford plans on killing that off very soon and replacing it with the next-gen Taurus.
The debate for the next Commodore rages on. GM/Holden could do what Ford is doing and use an NG Impala for down under and Holden would like to make it locally, whatever it turns out to be. Rumors of them using Alpha pop up here and there, but that's going to be an expensive venture for them to make a small number of cars using that chassis.
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This car was designed from the beginning to be sold as a Chevy here. It's not like they are buying cars from another company and rebadging them, GM has owned Holden since 1931. Holden is just another GM brand, just isn't one of the 4 that is sold in the US. I'm all about the US auto industry (all 8 vehicles I've owned were from the big 3, and only 1, my '91 Lumina was built outside the US, in the Oshawa plant), but in order to keep costs down GM will have to rely at least partially on design and manufacturing from their brands in other countries, and I have no problem with that.
- Justin
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Chevrolet and Holden will be sharing the same design themes. If you look at Holden's line up, it consists of just about all the cars Chevrolet has up until Malibu.
GM is a company that makes cars around the world, but only they are stupid/lazy/dumb/non-American if they use that to their advantage. I love you guys.