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After all the reporting, the gobbledygook and blame game even Holden's CEO made it perfectly clear - the fact of the matter is that Australia is not a country that you can manufacture cars and be competitive end of story.
Once they had looked at all the projections and what it was costing it made no sense for either GM or the Government to keep loosing money to keep those people employed. Why go to work knowing your business is going to loose money? Sure you are employing but thats can't keep going on forever and lets face it the government has been pumping money in since the start and still they are loosing every day they remain open. How many business owners here would keep the doors open bleeding this type of money?
Sure you can ask for a bigger freebie handout from taxpayers to keep your loosing business going but this makes far more sense than throwing taxpayers money down the drain on a loosing business model.
Very obvious from actual market sighting of 2013 numbers that it doesn't matter if VF dunny was the best large car ever manufactured in the history of the world.
The world market simply doesn't want to buy titanic sized cars and building one is clearly going against where the market has been going for over a decade.
Why any business would choose to go directly against what the market numbers are telling them is anyone guess.
Even GM admitted they where building the wrong cars but unlike Holden they have corrected their mistakes.
Now the big whale is finally dead not quite buried ------ - long live the Chevy Volt and its tiny little offspring. 
America's 20 best-selling cars in October 2013 are as follows.
November 2013 • September 2013 • October 2012RankBest-Selling CarOctober 2013October
2012% Change2013 YTD 2012 YTD % Change#1Toyota Camry29,144 29,926 - 2.6% 348,134 344,714 1.0%#2Honda Civic27,328 20,687 32.1% 280,889 254,716 10.3%#3Honda Accord25,162 28,349 - 11.2% 307,264 276,196 11.2%#4Toyota Corolla/Matrix23,637 20,949 12.8% 257,184 243,652 5.6%#5Nissan Altima21,785 24,623 - 11.5% 271,303 258,663 4.9%#6Ford Fusion21,740 12,690 71.3% 248,033 206,855 19.9%#7Hyundai Sonata19,872 16,773 18.5% 172,574 192,119 - 10.2%#8Chevrolet Cruze16,087 19,121 - 15.9% 211,862 199,721 6.1%#9Chevrolet Malibu15,746 9629 63.5% 170,696 189,094 - 9.7%#10Ford Focus15,108 18,320 - 17.5% 203,762 205,006 - 0.6%#11Hyundai Elantra14,876 14,512 2.5% 209,469 167,087 25.4%#12BMW11,715 9729 20.4% 89,636 78,081 14.8%
3-Series & 4-Series *#13Chevrolet Impala11,713 8368 40.0% 132,746 148,547 - 10.6%#14Volkswagen Jetta11,710 13,476 - 13.1% 135,983 140,504 - 3.2%#15Kia Optima11,492 12,948 - 11.2% 135,548 127,676 6.2%#16Toyota Prius10,334 10,677 - 3.2% 135,559 135,669 - 0.1%Prius Sedan8239 8788 - 6.2% 125,490 126,046 - 0.4%Prius Plug-In2095 1889 10.9% 10,069 9623 4.6%#17Nissan Versa8626 8311 3.8% 100,161 93,883 6.7%#18Nissan Sentra8399 5624 49.3% 106,680 91,464 16.6%#19Chrysler 2008347 8758 - 4.7% 111,207 109,025 2.0%#20Kia Soul8240 7988 3.2% 98,864 101,344 - 5.4%Source: Automakers
Red font indicates year-over-year declining sales
* Until BMW separates 3-Series and 4-Series sales in their own release, we can't separate them, either, as BMW is up until now refusing to separate the two.
^ Prius breakdown by variant.
Canada's 20 best-selling cars in October 2013 are as follows.
RankCarOctober
2013
YTDOctober
2012
YTD%
ChangeOctober
2013October
2012%
Change#1Honda Civic54,95053,2353.2%6,8525,04135.9%#2Hyundai Elantra48,36643,66110.8%4,0214,276-6.0%#2.1Hyundai Elantra Sedan/Coupe/GT *48,338 36,398 32.8% 4021 4236 -5.1%#2.2Hyundai Elantra Touring *28 7263 -99.6% --- 40 -100%#3Toyota Corolla38,43035,5598.1%4,3123,51822.6%#4Mazda 334,02434,888-2.5%3,8212,50852.4%#5Chevrolet Cruze28,49028,3710.4%3,1273,0691.9%#6Volkswagen Jetta26,56522,51118.0%3,2672,82115.8%#7Ford Focus22,77624,179-5.8%1,8722,409-22.3%#8Ford Fusion17,76414,58821.8%1,0831,272-14.9%#9Hyundai Accent17,18620,760-17.2%1,3931,3036.9%#10Toyota Camry15,37516,094-4.5%1,4121,435-1.6%#10.1Toyota Camry *12,710 13,095 -2.9% 1192 1189 0.3%#10.2Toyota Camry Hybrid *2665 2999 -11.1% 220 246 -10.6%#11Honda Accord14,9707,278106%1,5501,565-1.0%#12Kia Rio14,18011,91019.1%1,17480146.6%#13Nissan Sentra12,6739,07639.6%1,178540118%#14Hyundai Sonata12,52312,832-2.4%1,3551,04230.0%#15BMW 3-Series10,9349,38416.5%1,0791,0007.9%#16Chrysler 20010,83412,658-14.4%820878-6.6%#16.1Chrysler 200 Sedan *10,228 11,973 -14.6% 816 874 -6.6%#16.2Chrysler 200 Convertible *606 685 -11.5% 4 4 0.0%#17Volkswagen Golf10,36511,794-12.1%8581,298-33.9%#18Nissan Versa10,18411,368-10.4%1,4241,480-3.8%#19Kia Forte9,97513,647-26.9%8141,195-31.9%#20Toyota Matrix9,79011,659-16.0%6681,006-33.6%
Edited by LXSS350, 13 December 2013 - 11:51 AM.
