Yet we have amongst the highest number of distinct vehicle manufacturers and models available in our market for a country of our size.
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Yet we have amongst the highest number of distinct vehicle manufacturers and models available in our market for a country of our size.
It is interesting, but when you look at Japanese autos in Japan and those in Australia you can see that they are in large part not the same. For instance, most of the Toyatas seen in Australia are not seen in Japan but are seen in the US.
By sales, Toyota is a RHT company despite being a Japanese company.
Maybe. But you can forget about any GM auto. You can forget about manufacturers such as Rivian an Lucid. An I guess you can forget about many of the Chinese models as well.
EcoCloudIT
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China has a domestic RHD market in HK. In the BEV segment BYD are doing pretty well here.
Maybe WA can follow through with its talk of seceding from Australia and then trial a switch to LHD.
Blue heaven
Fair Dinkum Tesla
Don’t encourage him, most of us a perfectly happy driving on the left hand side of our toll free roads.
That could be because we are a relatively wealthy country, with a lot of the car buying population having disposable income to buy premium and luxury segment vehicles.
It's clearly a simple commercial decision on Tesla's part to cease RHD production of their niche models, but I think they are being just too greedy. They already make a good margin on every car they sell, and other mfgrs whose margin per unit is not as lucrative still offer their high-end/halo cars in RHD. It fits in with other (imho crazy) cost-cutting decisions in Tesla's recent past, like deletion of USS.
So I don't know what BYD are selling in Honk Kong. I suspect that is is always going to be a subset of what is sold in the rest of the PRC. Likewise for Australia and the other countries.
I can only presume that you are happy not to drive the Models X and S, and all the other autos that will not be available to you
Blue heaven
Fair Dinkum Tesla
I have a model S, great car that’s served me well over 8 years and will do for a few more years yet. The model S has served its purpose for Teslas mission. before September 2019 Tesla didn’t have any cars available for the the sub $110k market, now they don’t don’t have any available for the 110k plus market, such is life.
Yeah I'll keep my S too - it's probably worth a bit more now that they aren't making any more of 'em in RHD. It's still somewhere between the M3LR and M3P in performance (i.e. goes like the clappers), looks great, and has a nice big boot.
I'll just have to suck up the MCU2 upgrade before Telstra turns 3G off (and probably replace the old yellowing screen too...) and replace tyres with monotonous regularity, but such is life with what is rapidly becoming a vintage GT car.
I'll just have to suck up the MCU2 upgrade before Telstra turns 3G off (and probably replace the old yellowing screen too...) and replace tyres with monotonous regularity, but such is life with what is rapidly becoming a vintage GT car.
EcoCloudIT
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Only 23 more years until it's eligible for historic plates!Nice signature update
I’ll probably go for this too… but seems they’ve jacked up the price on that too - it was listed as $2,300 not long ago, but I just asked for a quote and was told $2,780.
Classic Australian forum post: make up unverifiable facts.
Seven new car brands coming to Australia in 2022
These new car brands are coming soon to Australia (and some are already here).
www.drive.com.au
"Australia is one of the most competitive new-car markets in the world, with more brands represented here per-capita than most other developed countries.
For example, the US has 30 or so brands for 17 million annual sales and the UK has 40 or so brands for 2.5 million sales.
Australia has about 50 new-car brands competing for about 1.1 million sales annua…"
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