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Australia is strange in that its consumers seem to support crude high powered cars like Americans used to. The El Camino car/truck design never got old in Australia and they are selling 400hp V8 powered models today.
Australia is strange in that its consumers seem to support crude high powered cars like Americans used to. The El Camino car/truck design never got old in Australia and they are selling 400hp V8 powered models today.
Yep, it's based on the Ford Falcon, a rear wheel drive sedan. I really wish they still had the Falcon here today. Basic family transportation in one version, super hotrod in another, and a decent performance model in between. Then add to that the same car minus the rear seats and trunk for an imitation truck like vehicle. It could be brought here as a Lincoln and be a BMW3 series competitor.
Australia is strange in that its consumers seem to support crude high powered cars like Americans used to. The El Camino car/truck design never got old in Australia and they are selling 400hp V8 powered models today.
Crude???
What exactly is 'crude' about them?
One thing I have a problem with is most of their performance vehicles have two too many doors...
They aren't refined in the typical BMW/MBZ/Audi sense. They are visually garish/crude (but I like it), skip the features and jump right in with a high power V8 and a well tuned suspension. I'm all for it but its a car lovers mentality that’s dying in the states. Australia has more modern muscle cars than we do.
They aren't refined in the typical BMW/MBZ/Audi sense. They are visually garish/crude (but I like it), skip the features and jump right in with a high power V8 and a well tuned suspension. I'm all for it but its a car lovers mentality that’s dying in the states. Australia has more modern muscle cars than we do.
Never in a million years. Kickass variations of the Australian Falcon have been around for a couple decades but Ford has never showed so much as a passing interest in selling them here. At any rate, they've staked their North American high-performance turbo engine fortunes on the 3.5L ecoboost. At this point they're not going to go through the huge expense of federalizing what would be a mostly redundant power plant. And if they had to pick one or the other, I wish they'd have developed the 4.0 for the North American market instead; if you're going to do 6 cylinders I much prefer inline to a V configuration. But V6's are much easier to package than straight 6's. It has always amazed me though the kind of cars Ford and GM will develop for such a small market as Australia with limited export. I'd also love to see a true mid-sized RWD sedan platform, but U.S. fuel economy mandates don't make it practical.
Yep, it's based on the Ford Falcon, a rear wheel drive sedan. I really wish they still had the Falcon here today. Basic family transportation in one version, super hotrod in another, and a decent performance model in between ...
I've always been interested in the Falcon XA and XB models in the Australian 1979 movie Mad Max. Certainly nothing like the tame family cars I knew here in the states. There's a lot of information about them on the web.
I had a XA Fairmont,basically an 'upscale' Falcon.
It was a rusty and pretty worn out however...plus hipo parts were VERY $$$ in Australia.
What was always a sight to see there was an American car,we hardly EVER saw anything and it was always seen as something exotic,even if it was a plain jane Mustang or Firebird.
They could have looked at the V8 "GT" version instead. But It still would be interesting to see, if the FG Falcon F6 E will ever get released in America?
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