interesting Sales Figures

[Outlaw]

Here's a list of sales figure for Land Rover throughout Australia. The First Figure is how many they sold in total 2004, the second figure is the total from 2003. - A real drop in figures, especially on the Rangy.

Land Rover Defender PU/CC
78 8O 153

Land Rover Defender S/Wgn
296 8O 334

Land Rover Discovery
1953 8O 2271

Land Rover Freelander
418 8O 496

Land Rover Range Rover
398 8O 644

TOTAL Land Rover
3143 8O 3898

And if interested in the full breakdown by vehicle, have a look here... the column descriptions are at the bottom.
http://www.visioncentral.org/aulro/SUV_Breakdown.pdf

[Tyrepower]

Not very encouraging is it!! I hope the new D3 brings it up, and sparks new enthusiasim for the brand

[NOZ]

Be sure that will change with the new model, I see it will be at the Brisbane motor show thus weekend

[NOZ]

oops: This weekend

[VladTepes]

The Disco (and even Rangie) sales slumps may be explained by people waiting for a new Disco3.

The Defender slump (and the others) - probably something to do with the fact that LR do bugger all advertsign / promotion etc. I mean it doesn't take a genius....

I read the car section of the paper every week - ALWAYS Jeep ads in there and usually most other makes as well.

I have NEVER seen a Land Rover ad. Not once. People could be forgiven for not considering them or even knowing they exist. :roll:

[Tyrepower]

Originally posted by NOZ
Be sure that will change with the new model, I see it will be at the Brisbane motor show thus weekend

A closet Kiwi perhaps

[NOZ]

Note that I know of , but hey [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Ace]

I think that LR's problem is the lack of updates. The defender has remained relatively unchanged, excluding the move to TD5, for over a decade. The disco about the same, the move to TD5 (series II), only changed the engine and the enlarged the interior space a little. People want a regular progression and regular improvements. They now need replace the Freelander, Range Rover and Defender with vehicles as good as disco 3. Given this, i think that Land Rover sales will increase. Matt

[Tyrepower]

For the sake of the brand, lets hope thats the grand plan

[Ace]

Originally posted by Tyrepower
For the sake of the brand, lets hope thats the grand plan

I think, that if ford has started to get on top of the build quality issues, people will see this in the Disco 3 and faith will be resored in the next new models. Matt