September Sales Help Commodore Celebrate 30th Birthday

[Darren]

Holden Commodore was the top selling car in Australia in September and is the top selling passenger vehicle year to date.

A total of 4462 Commodores were sold in September, boosted by 1448 Sportwagons. This puts Commodore more than 700 vehicles ahead of the next largest seller with three months of sales remaining.

In its second full month in showrooms, Sportwagon out sold all SUVs across the compact, medium and large segments, ahead of class leaders such as Subaru Forester, Toyota Prado Ford Territory and Toyota Landcruiser.

October 25th marks the 30th Anniversary of the Commodore nameplate.

GM Holden Director of Marketing Phil Brook said it was fitting that Commodore would celebrate this milestone ahead in the national sales charts.

”It's a great way to go into Commodore's 30th birthday celebrations as Australia's most popular vehicle so far in 2008,” Mr Brook said.

”Strong sales of Sportwagon have been particularly encouraging, especially set against a backdrop of a softening new car market and a slowing Australian economy.”

Since the release of the VB model in 1978, Commodore has become the company's longeststanding and most successful nameplate with more than 2.5 million vehicles sold.

The Commodore name has graced 14 model series and four generations of large rear-wheel drive vehicles for Australian and export markets and has been Australia's top selling passenger vehicle for 12 consecutive years.

Source - Holden Media.

[CroXtreme]

haha i bought my in september i guess i am in that 4462 number

[Pete_perth]

I hope they bring out a dual-fuel or all LPG or diesel - AWD version of the Sports Wagon with the option of manual transmission (not triptronic or some other pretend manual which is really an auto). Yeah I know I am dreaming. This site is the best.

Congratulations Commodore and Holden, looking forward to another 30 years and more.

[Nevyn]

30 yrs seems a long time, but in looking back it seems even longer. I have clear memories though of doing me morning paper round in Sth Melbourne and seeing the new VB Commodore sedans been unloaded from a car carrier at a car dealers showroom. It took 20 yrs before I bought a Commodore though because I still preferred the older Eh and HGs.....my first Commodore was a VC Wagon and I've never had anything other than Commodores since. I'm only up to the VN now, and can't see meself getting anything else newer. But I do want to get a FB-EK sedan sometime down the track.