December VW Golf Sales

[shakespeare]

Two numbers really stand out in the following for me

38,000 VW's in 2010 sold in Australia and of those 3742 were performance Golfs!!! (GTI & R)

This is from the Mazda MPS forum, which I reposted here

December 2010 Sales Results - Top Ten and Performance Model Breakdown

Top Ten Sales By Marque (Marque - Monthly Sales - YTD Sales)

Toyota - 20,940 - 214,718
Holden - 10,444 - 132,923
Ford - 7,219 - 95,284
Mazda - 6,989 - 84,777
Hyundai - 5,877 - 80,038
Nissan - 5,561 - 62,676
Mitsubishi - 5,169 - 62,496
Honda - 3,279 - 40,375
Subaru - 2,740 - 40,025
Volkswagen - 2,747 - 38,016
Total Market - 86,587 - 1,035,574

Top Ten Sales by Model (Marque/Model - Monthly Sales - YTD Sales)

Holden Commodore - 3,778 - 45,956
Toyota Corolla - 4,955 - 41,632
Toyota Hilux - 3,527 - 39,896
Mazda Mazda3 - 3,419 - 39,003
Hyundai i30 - 1,986 - 29,772
Ford Falcon - 1,939 - 29,516
Holden Cruze - 2,081 - 28,334
Toyota Camry - 3,236 - 25,014
Mitsubishi Lancer - 1,602 - 23,076
Hyundai Getz - 1,577 - 21,547

Performance Model Breakdown (Marque - Model - Monthly Sales - YTD Sales)

Volkswagen - Golf GTI - 213 - 3,181
Ford - Focus XR5 - 172 - 1,719
Subaru - Impreza WRX - 96 - 1,633
Mazda - Mazda3 MPS - 23 - 566
Mitsubishi - Lancer Ralliart - 29 - 420
Honda - Civic Type R - 21 - 194
Volkswagen - Golf R/R32 - 128 - 561
Mitsubishi - Lancer Evolution - 6 - 238
Ford - Focus RS - 25 - 192
Subaru - Impreza WRX STI - 1 - 134

Source: VFACTS via Mazda Guru

[shauno]

I wonder if that's based on contracts signed or cars delivered?

There's certainly a massive backlog of orders...

[Ideo]

I wonder if that's based on contracts signed or cars delivered?

There's certainly a massive backlog of orders...

Tell me about it. Still don't even have an indicative yet.

[Corey_R]

It's on cars delivered. They have the be registered etc to be counted.

[weewilly]

and not a Renualt in sight, go figure>>>

[dave_r]

and the 315 special edition all will be sold easily Focus RS....

But that explains why every time I see a MK6, its a bloody GTI lol

[aVex]

But that explains why every time I see a MK6, its a bloody GTI lol

Can't be, I live in the Melbourne CBD, there are more 118TSI's than GTI's.

[markwid]

and not a Renault in sight, go figure>>>

Maybe everyone interested is waiting for someone else to buy and take a hit on the initial depreciation.

[Ryan_R]

leme see - I've seen about 4 other 118 TSI's - lots of 103 TDI's, and lots more GTI's

I think I saw my first R on the road the other day going into Burnley tunnel yesterday arvo - was a silver one of all colours) (Either that or someone changed their rear lights to the LED ones - that's the only way I noticed it).

In the first list I would've liked to have seen VW a bit higher up, but I guess that means my car isn't too "common" yet.

[dave_r]

In the first list I would've liked to have seen VW a bit higher up, but I guess that means my car isn't too "common" yet.

If you look at the servicing cost of VW's, they're far too high in the first 100,000km's to be too much higher up IMO. If you asked Ford/Holden/Toyota etc drivers to pay what VW owners do for servicing even upto 60k with things like the DSG etc, they'd fall over.