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Post by PetrolEd on Jan 7, 2022 13:58:28 GMT
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Post by PG on Jan 7, 2022 14:05:10 GMT
Not surprised by the Model 3, I see them everywhere. Who said saloons are dead  . Manufacturers just had to make one that had a USP or that people really want. Whats happened to the Fiesta? I think people who bought Fiestas are either upgrading to a Puma (also see them everywhere), or buying an A Class. |
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Post by chipbutty on Jan 7, 2022 15:04:21 GMT
I wonder how many of the Model 3s were sold to company car users or salary sacrifice scheme participants ?
I'd like to know how these sales are skewed by financial incentives.
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Post by Blarno on Jan 7, 2022 15:22:41 GMT
Best selling doesn't mean the best car. For a while, the Mk5 Escort was the best selling car in the UK and that was a total clonker (Apart from the RS2000 and the Cosworth, which was a hacked up Sierra anyway)
I was saying this to someone only last week, if you want a supermini, the answer is always Fiesta. It just is.
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 7, 2022 16:24:17 GMT
Wow! That really is a rival to a list of the best selling steam irons, isn’t it? Mogodon on wheels largely reflective of the fact that the majority of road users are driving through necessity as opposed to any kind of enjoyment.
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Post by Tim on Jan 7, 2022 16:38:20 GMT
The Tesla managed 9k sales in December out of a total of 34k for the year.
They must've had something special going on there.
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Post by Martin on Jan 7, 2022 17:30:27 GMT
The Tesla managed 9k sales in December out of a total of 34k for the year. They must've had something special going on there. They get shipped from China in batches. I know a few people who were waiting a couple of months for one and it was delivered end Nov/early Dec. |
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Post by johnc on Jan 7, 2022 17:32:12 GMT
The Tesla managed 9k sales in December out of a total of 34k for the year. They must've had something special going on there. I reckon 90% of them will be business purchases. It really is a complete no brainer for a company car (until they change the rules or massively ramp up the percentages) |
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Post by PetrolEd on Jan 7, 2022 17:59:04 GMT
It’s the sales process or lack of it that’s amazed me with Tesla. You go online chose a car on their crap website and then drive down to the docks or a warehouse and pick it up. No gin palace chamois buffing treatment and hasn’t effected sales in the slightest. Other manufacturers and dealership groups must be asking themselves why they keep investing millions in new property
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Post by Martin on Jan 7, 2022 18:18:55 GMT
It’s the sales process or lack of it that’s amazed me with Tesla. You go online chose a car on their crap website and then drive down to the docks or a warehouse and pick it up. No gin palace chamois buffing treatment and hasn’t effected sales in the slightest. Other manufacturers and dealership groups must be asking themselves why they keep investing millions in new property When a colleague went down to Southampton to collect his Model 3 performance (over a year ago now). He arrived on time but was kept waiting for nearly an hour as they dealt with all the Model S and X collections, then he was just given a key card and registration number, asked if he'd driven a quick car before, told to be careful and signed for it like an Amazon parcel. That was it. Since then, the lease company have arranged deliveries to home, so no different to getting any other lease car. |
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Post by cbeaks1 on Jan 7, 2022 22:40:58 GMT
Semi conductor strategy. There aren’t any unsold Fiestas, they just weren’t any. What the top 10 misses is that the Custom outsold all of the cars by a large amount, and the Transit outsold all cars other than the Corsa. |
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 7, 2022 22:56:49 GMT
It’s the sales process or lack of it that’s amazed me with Tesla. You go online chose a car on their crap website and then drive down to the docks or a warehouse and pick it up. No gin palace chamois buffing treatment and hasn’t effected sales in the slightest. Other manufacturers and dealership groups must be asking themselves why they keep investing millions in new property My purchase of Eva was pretty much this with the exception that when I went to collect it I went to the BMW dealership that had offered me the lowest price on CarWow. Saying that Lookers have posted huge profits and they’ve got some chunky dealership premises so it still works. |
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Post by johnc on Jan 8, 2022 8:32:19 GMT
I think the Tesla model of selling works because it is a niche product you can't get anywhere else. Once all cars are EV's there will need to be some differentiation and the dealership model might still be preferred by many. However now that most of us have become very used to buying online, perhaps that will prove popular if the price reflects that lack of facilities.
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Post by Alex on Jan 8, 2022 23:39:06 GMT
Whats interesting is that the article states that around 1.6m vehicles were sold (presume they mean passenger cars not vans/trucks etc) yet those 10 added together around for around 210000 of them if my very roughcalculations are correct. That's about 13%. That seems awfully low to me and so I wonder if a lot of the next 10 in the charts are not a long way off the Yaris's figures.
Regarding where the Fiesta went, I think the Pumas sales give you your answer. Likewise the Golf 8 has dropped below the Polo because of the ID3 taking sales that previously went to the mk7 e-Golf.
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. Manufacturers just had to make one that had a USP or that people really want. 
