Quote Originally Posted by planetdavo View Post
Too many Aussies these days do NOT want an Australian made car, especially one with a big lion on the front and back- because apparently bogans buy local Holden's. Doesn't matter how much you get for your money, how much technology is put in it, how economical they are now for their size, or how nice they are to drive. Even comparisons between imports and local car reliability hardly factor. If it's "Aussie" it must be sh!t, and everything else is better. Just because it is.
Apparently, according to some, we don't make a Holden relevant to our market anymore. Even though the only time Commodore dropped out of top 5 sales was right near the end of runout, and one current model variant has a waiting list of over 3 months...
The rapid change in what makes someone "Australian" over the last generation has been fascinating to watch in it's speed, but sad to watch how it's turned out. We really have virtually lost our unique national identity.
At the end of the day, we now have DOUBLE the brands available to you in the US on sale here- for just ONE million sales a year- and a culture that now barely values "Aussie". We've, unfortunately, become addicted to global technology and greed as a means of having "a better life". It isn't hard to figure out the numbers of what that means...
Could not have said it better myself, 100% true amongst nearly everyone I know.

I still get all of my import owning mates struggling to figure out why I drive a Commodore when I'm not a redneck bogan missing half a brain sadly. Even 8-10 years ago when we were all getting our licences, the percentage of Commodores owned was a lot higher, mainly due to the unaffordability of anything else, and the performance per $.