06-16-2015, 04:26 AM
(06-16-2015, 03:55 AM)bryanw1995 Wrote:(06-16-2015, 03:40 AM)RolloTheGreat Wrote:(06-16-2015, 12:43 AM)bryanw1995 Wrote: I've only been to WI once. It was early summer about 10 years ago, I went to Milwaukee for a wedding. I think that we stayed at the Iron Horse hotel, the weather was perfect and the trip was awesome. I'd like to go back one day.
I never go somewhere else and think, "I wish lived here". If you like outdoor recreating we have a ton of it, and as a result, an $18.5b tourism industry. What is excellent about it is we have so many natural resources you can largely evade the tourists and enjoy them, often pretty much by yourself.
I don't have anything against imports, we may end up with a Subaru as our 3rd car when we give our son the Challenger later this year. (up here 4wd is a BIG deal)
Mostly I just disagree with Gstan saying the US market is like the Aussie market (it isn't), a Yaris is equal to a F150 (it's not), and the vehicles we drive belong on railroad tracks (they are more useful than a Yaris).
Isn't he in Tasmania? At a guess I would say that Tasmania isn't perfectly representative of the entire country...and, in fact, could be quite different.
Yaris doesn't look to be in the top 10 in Aus by the way, not sure if it's #11 or # 111 atm though.
The fact the Toyota Corolla and Mazda 3 are duking it out for their top seller tells me Australia is very, very different from the USA.
http://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/toy...X9Lt2fbLDc
Which has kind of been my point all along:
GStan says "Stack'em high and sell'em cheap" and "Keep It Simple Stupid" are universal sales principles that apply to our auto sales. (and that < $20K is his threshold for what he thinks popular cars sell for)
My position all along is that is the opposite of how American auto sales work, and what the American public wants.

