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D @ Feb 5th 2008 8:41AM
Well, no. It wasn't a lack of V8 that killed 380 sales. It's the slowly eroding large car segment which has seen Falcon experience the lowest sales since its first decade on the market, the brand new Commodore slip a few percentage points... Aurion is doing pretty well but it could be picking up fleet slack. I've seen some Aurions used as police cars around the city.
MMA has pretty much been in trouble for years. A revised and discounted 380 couldn't stop it from folding. They ruined the Magna by not updating it then dumping it into fleets. So they changed the name and pretty much slashed sales by half because nobody knew what a 380 was. And bland styling on account of the American Galant design, which MMA couldn't afford to revise. MMA was doomed to fail. Such a shame for those workers.