FORD: Just for those who do give a shit

[Hitcher]

It's about time economic reality forced its way into the heads of Ford Australia. How many decades do they really think they can keep recycling 1970s running gear and think that their buyers won't notice? One would have thought that they would have learned their lesson after the god-awful product that was the AU. Truly sad that was. "It's the Internet address for Australia," the PR hacks gushed. BA is the country code for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Who really gives a fuck?

Holden has a new model update on the Commodore at at most two-yearly intervals. Each "new" model Falcon has to last 10 years i.e. there have been five Commodore changes in the same period. It took Ford 30 years past its use-by date to finally abandon the banjo rear axle in its Falcon sedans. It's taken it slightly longer to see the light with its agricultural straight sixes.

If Ford was smart they would put a Falcon badge onto a right-hand-drive Taurus for the Aussie market, rather than continue the fallacy that there is something truly special about a "Great Australian Motor Car".

Maybe they've finally run out of spares in the parts bin at Geelong. After all that was the whole point of the Territory, now wasn't it?

[The Stranger:Me]

And of course, had the rules not been changed to exclude Skylines, it could be much more interesting.

Sneaky like a V8 fox, old AVESCO. They knew the good old Aussie boys with their VBs and XXXXs wouldn't want to see Johnny Jappa kicking the hell out of the locals. It'd probably raise domestic abuse rates.

Why should they? the japs are welcome to run thier own races, no one's stopping them, hell the japs can even include fords and Holdens if they like.

Austratian touring cars - why should everyone else hijack their good work? Fuckem, get their own race.

[ManDownUnder]

You can almost smell Lion Red and body odour in this thread.

Double brown you mean.... but yes.

[The Pastor]

Double brown you mean.... but yes.

dont you bad mouth the doubble brown! (btw can u get doubble brown in bottles? cans just arnt as classy)

[ManDownUnder]

dont you bad mouth the doubble brown! (btw can u get doubble brown in bottles? cans just arnt as classy)

I won't - in fact I don't put it anywhere near my mouth.

The only reason they're force to bottle and sell the stuff is because landfills won't take it and all the "real storage facilities" are busy with nuclear waste...

[MSTRS:Me]

Nothing classy about draught beers, no matter what colour it is called.

[The Pastor]

I won't - in fact I don't put it anywhere near my mouth.

The only reason they're force to bottle and sell the stuff is because landfills won't take it and all the "real storage facilities" are busy with nuclear waste...

doubble brown may be like having sex in a canoe (f'ing close to water) but its not a bad drink. Not by a long shot.

[MSTRS:Me]

doubble brown may be like having sex in a canoe (f'ing close to water) but its not a bad drink. Not by a long shot.

Sensible people would prefer to drink Wanganui river water...even if there is the odd Ford in it from up Pipiriki way

[Swoop]

Never heard of them...besides, we're talking real cars anyway.

Correct. A type of car that you can have in your garage instead of on your bedroom wall.

[Mikkel]

Yeah, but Dinosaurs that won't die.

I'd prefer the tuatara or a crocodile then!

Correct. A type of car that you can have in your garage instead of on your bedroom wall.

You mean like a toyota corolla? They rock!

Besides I hope grown-ups don't have car posters in their bedrooms...
...everyone knows that porn belongs on the computer!

[Swoop]

You mean like a toyota corolla? They rock!

In a manner of speaking.
F1 cars might be attractive to some, but a touring car is actually affordable to the average petrolhead, without having to mortgage a small South American country to do so.

[scumdog]

If Ford was smart they would put a Falcon badge onto a right-hand-drive Taurus for the Aussie market, rather than continue the fallacy that there is something truly special about a "Great Australian Motor Car".

Maybe they've finally run out of spares in the parts bin at Geelong. After all that was the whole point of the Territory, now wasn't it?

The new commode ain't so flash.
An 'A' pillar wider than my T-birds 'C'-pillar leaving you with a forward vision blind-spot from hell. (Maybe that's why the Buller cop didn't see the bikes until too late?)

EDIT: They made the 'A' pillar that thick to house the air-bags -- they put air-bags in to make the car safer for the occupants - but made a larger blind-spot for the driver and created a hazard.....go figure!!

The rear is so hard to see out of that there one of those proximity beeper gizmos - which don't work if you haven't let off the handbrake COMPLETELY (the h-brake warning doesn't work at that level) so you risk reversing into things that you were expecting a beep or two to warn you of.

I could go on i.e interior trim falling off etc.

Good point?
The boot hinges now no longer crush/gouge everything inside the boot when you shut it.

All makes have faults, none are a 'Golden Car' - bereft of faults or design error.

[more_fasterer]

Why should they? the japs are welcome to run thier own races, no one's stopping them, hell the japs can even include fords and Holdens if they like.

Austratian touring cars - why should everyone else hijack their good work? Fuckem, get their own race.

Hahahaha they have their own race, and a V8 supercar would technically be able to enter, but may have difficulty keeping up in GT300, let alone GT500...

Please elaborate how stifling diversity by writing the rules to specifically only allow australian-produced cars is "good work". Granted, the racing is close - but there are other means to ensure parity than making every car use cart springs and pushrods. Look at the above jap racing series, A1GP and european touring cars - they achieve close racing through ballast loading.

V8 supercars would be that much more interesting if other V8, rear-wheel drive cars were allowed to enter. Chrysler 300C's, Merc E-class (same thing really), BMW 540, Toyota Aristo etc etc would spice things up. Chances are the target market of one-eyed aussies wouldn't be interested though.

[rudolph]

Ford Cleveland and Windsor motors were always lots of fun

[Mully]

If Ford was smart they would put a Falcon badge onto a right-hand-drive Taurus for the Aussie market, rather than continue the fallacy that there is something truly special about a "Great Australian Motor Car".

Apparently, when the AU was making Ford AU bleed red ink from every orifice, they considered this. According to their research, no-one in Aussie would buy a FWD Falcon, and Ford Global had nothing else suitable (the Taurus was designed to be both LHD and RHD, IIRC) in the stable to stick the Falcon badge on.

Plus, Aussies will wave the flag at any opportunity, so that would hand the win to Holden by default.