They have stock of the 2008 brought in late in the year and they would like to move them before Easter. Quite attractive little cars, but they need to advertise them well and not scare the buyers with pricing.
Citroen is now the second lowest selling make in Australia, only Rolls Royce to beat now. A 75% sales fall to six units. Peugeot a 37.48% fall to 117.
The comparison should be made with Skoda who have increased sales by 41% to occupy the sales slots once held by the French makes.
A range of cars with pissy 1.2 & 1.6 litre engines surprises me they’ve sold that many! You mention Skoda Russell, they have some ballbusting combinations including AWD variants. Why would anyone look at overpriced, underwhelming French cars with reliability baggage?
The Czechs are good engineers. Skoda were well solid well made cars that earned a better reputation than Renaults in the Round Australia trials. Tubman drove them. They motorised Eastern Europe and had a good reputation. They were under capitalized and made a basic error along with others in predicting the future of the small car to be rear engined.The answer is, that Skoda, (which is after all, just Volkswagen) have not capitulated under the stress of COViD-19 and an underwhelming marketing effort. When I recall that Skoda 1100's were the poor, unloved, and desperately cheap progeny of a marriage between La Belle France and the People's Republic I am amazed that the name can still sell cars to people who were not subjects of the Soviet Union.
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The Czechs are good engineers. Skoda were well solid well made cars that earned a better reputation than Renaults in the Round Australia trials. Tubman drove them. They motorised Eastern Europe and had a good reputation. They were under capitalized and made a basic error along with others in predicting the future of the small car to be rear engined.
A car like the 508 is attractive but suffers from only having a 1.6 litre engine in comparative tests. Some people find the small high stressed engines satisfactory but most buyers don't as the sales figures indicate. Do a comparison and see what else is available for that money.
A car like the 508 is attractive but suffers from only having a 1.6 litre engine in comparative tests. Some people find the small high stressed engines satisfactory but most buyers don't as the sales figures indicate. Do a comparison and see what else is available for that money.
Ancient history.I am amazed that the name can still sell cars to people who were not subjects of the Soviet Union.