Isuzu Ute Australia is celebrating a trio of milestones domestically, headlined by the model notching up greater than 350,000 mixed deliveries of its D-Max ute and MU-X SUV twins.
Final month’s new-car gross sales knowledge was launched a handful of weeks in the past, however Isuzu’s number-crunchers have since found the model has now eclipsed 250,000 D-Max gross sales and 100,000 MU-X deliveries because the autos made their debut.
The D-Max first got here to Australia in October 2008, six years after it went on sale in Thailand.
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Australia had beforehand seen the D-Max, though it was badged because the Holden Rodeo right here from 2003 till 2008, the place it then grew to become the Holden Colorado as Isuzu began promoting its ute right here underneath its personal model.
The MU-X’s Australian debut got here later in 2013, a couple of yr after Australia once more had first seen it because the Holden Colorado 7 SUV. It changed the MU-7 in Thailand, which hadn’t been provided in Australia underneath any badge.
Historical past reveals that each instances it was Isuzu who received out regardless of the Holden nameplate getting used by itself merchandise.
From October 2008 to October 2024, Isuzu has bought 250,789 examples of the D-Max to native clients, and it’s set for a report yr with 25,644 delivered since January – cut up throughout 5411 4x2s and 20,233 4x4s.
Greater than a decade on from the MU-X’s arrival, the Japanese model is celebrating the supply of 102,080 examples of its SUVs, whereas Holden closed its doorways on the finish of 2020.
Isuzu Ute Australia Managing Director, Junta Matsu, stated the result’s “testomony to the continuous evolution of our product which has earned a spot with our valued clients.”
“From our humble beginnings in 2008 to turning into probably the most trusted and succesful automobile manufacturers in the marketplace, over 350,000 Isuzu D-Max and MU-X on Australian roads is proof of how far our autos have advanced over time, incomes a spot within the lives of a whole lot of hundreds of Australians who depend on our autos daily.
“We’re happy with what we’ve achieved this yr, and with simply two months remaining in 2024 we’re energised by the alternatives forward.”
Whereas Isuzu is celebrating its gross sales milestones, its autos nonetheless have catching as much as do towards their respective section rivals.
The 25,644 D-Max deliveries within the first 10 months of 2024 are lower than half that of the Ford Ranger – Australia’s best-selling automobile general – and in addition fall in need of the 46,594 Toyota HiLuxes delivered in the identical interval.
In the meantime, the MU-X is sitting on 15,584 deliveries thus far this yr, second in its section to the Ford Everest (21,281 gross sales), nonetheless the arrival of the brand new 250 Sequence Toyota LandCruiser Prado threatens to surge previous each fashions within the subsequent few years.
As reported earlier this week, the newest facelift to the MU-X is predicted in Australia subsequent yr, whereas each the SUV and D-Max ute have acquired a brand new entry-level turbo-diesel powertrain in Thailand which has but to be confirmed for Australia.
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