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2009 Ford Territory TS

Ford Australia are following Holden’s example by down sizing cars (not all of them) but during these tough times and as we pass through a mini recession both Holden & Ford are looking to capitalize on the smaller car market as trends are showing more and more people are purchasing small to mid size vehicle.

The Ford Territory has been around for just over 5 years now and has sold close to 90,000 units is this amount of time, unfortunately for ford this trend is dropping at a great rate this is largely because of the cheap SUV imports and options that are available, these days Ford are barley selling 650 units per month while that does sound high it’s not quite the 7,500 units they had been selling each month over the previous 3 years.

Anyway with that out of the way lets take a look into the new Ford Territory, don’t get to excited tho the new Ford Territory TS hasn’t changed in appearance which is slightly disappointing with no new exterior remolding its hard to see how this will boast sales all tho Ford Australia marketing manager David Katic has made a statement claiming the new Ford Territory will prevent sales from declining further.

So your wondering what is so new about the Ford Territory series well, ford are claiming $3600 of extra equipment has been thrown in however you will pay an extra $1000,  2009 Ford Territory updated catalytic converter, a new rebuilt engine which is more fuel efficient, better transmission calibration, new headlamps, new front bumper, new bonnet, a Alpine rear DVD system is about the most noticeable upgrade.

all in all very minor exterior upgrades and i cant see how this will magically boost sales each to their own i guess, this may impress potential buyers but unfortunately for ford i could not justify the extra $1000 for a few minor perks.