Don't know that Holden makes that much more money out of HSV builds. I doubt they're charging HSV retail, and there's not a lot that saves Holden money when those cars are running down the production line.
However I did start saying "pffft" a few days ago, and wrote the numbers down ... and what sounds like a small number of cars being assigned to dealers is probably not all that unusual.
So how many Commodores have they been selling recently per year, 25000 or so?
Only 2/3 of a year for production, make that about 17000.
Extra 3000 cars for USA, that's 14000.
Half local production in these final years is V8 innit? So 7000.
How many dealers are there? People are saying 35-odd Redlines at their local dealer, with SSV gone would it be 50:50 between SS & Redline? This is all rule-of-thumb. So that dealer with 35 Redlines has 70 V8's.
100 dealers in all of Australia? Probably not that many, but probably not FAR short, and the bigger dealers will be getting more cars.
I think the numbers of cars we're hearing that're allocated to dealers are looking not entirely different to the numbers that would've been sold for the first 2/3 of the year this year & last year ... ?
