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Garpal Gumnut

Garpal Gumnut

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It would appear that the Ford Falcon and all its family of cars is finished under the globalisation plan of the Ford Company.

Thus all cars will probably be primarily made in the US or cheap overseas countries and each brand will be distributed globally.

There will be no more local brands for local markets such as the Falcon.

This is a major blow to the local Ford operation.

http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/end-of-the-road-nears-for-falcon-20100112-m334.html?autostart=1

I haven't driven a Ford for over ten years but believe there have been problems with some of their brand in relation to quality, breakdowns and customer service.

gg
 
Geelong will turn into Detroit if this happens but it's a good business decision.

If i was a shareholder, i'd be happy
 
My first car was the XR Falcon, have had an XD, XF, XH utilities and now drive a BA XR6 Turbo Ute.

Long live the Falcon.
 
I've long thought that the Australian car industry needs to shift to building something other than mass produced mid price sedans. We're just not going to compete with the Chinese etc in that market.

In all seriousness, I'd like to see the "average Australian car" be one that the average Australian can't afford to buy. Make cars that sell internationally for $200,000 and the issues of production costs in Australia, wages, regulations etc versus China are overcome. Keep building $30,000 cars for the mass market and we'll lose the battle.

Compete with the Italians or Germans, not China. The latter will simply send us broke.
 
I bought one of the first Ford falcons produced and a new one every 2 years for 30 years. Then I got a dud and a friend quoted "If you cant afford a Dodge, dodge a Ford"
 
Smurf1976 said:
In all seriousness, I'd like to see the "average Australian car" be one that the average Australian can't afford to buy. Make cars that sell internationally for $200,000.....
Compete with the Italians or Germans, not China.
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I agree that Australia should produce a world class supercar and I would be prepared to donate to the cause.

However, to think we could compete against the likes of Lamborghini, Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW and Porsche is but a distant dream.
 
I mite be able to afford a nice beach front place in Geelong....robots wont be happy as it will hold back the median Victorian house price. :)
 
I'm more of a holden man, but I like falcons as well. In particular I'd love to have one of those new G6E turbos, very nice cars indeed. Sorry to hear they're stopping production.
 
Its a shame that the car companies/governments went different ways in regards to which side of the road to drive on. I couldnt imagine the costs involved in trying to design and market cars to drive on the opposite side to their normal market.
Anyway back to the Falcon they could build them on the moon and I still wouldnt buy one. ;)
 
Macquack said:
I agree that Australia should produce a world class supercar and I would be prepared to donate to the cause.

However, to think we could compete against the likes of Lamborghini, Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW and Porsche is but a distant dream.
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Maybe not Ferrari etc, but the EU badged versions of some of the Holden/ HSV models (like the Monaro based hi-po GTO Coupe, and the Clubsport R8 etc), have certainly done well in the UK/middle east etc when pitched against cars like the BMW M5 and similar. They are priced/marketed as slightly cheaper/better value versions of those hi-po German sedans.

Cheers,

Beej
 
So_Cynical said:
I mite be able to afford a nice beach front place in Geelong....robots wont be happy as it will hold back the median Victorian house price. :)
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Robots wouldn't notice as he would just switch to the St kilda median house price figures & keep posting.

I drive a falcon at the moment, haven't had a single problem with the car. It seems inevitable that with single-country manufacturing in lowly populated countries the struggle against economies of scale will be a losing battle.
Vale Falcon but that's progress.
 
Only one Ford in my past - a Falcon. Loved it, no problems. Still some time to go before they are finished, so might get one of the last ones.
 
Smurf1976 said:
I've long thought that the Australian car industry needs to shift to building something other than mass produced mid price sedans. We're just not going to compete with the Chinese etc in that market.
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Not that i wouldn't love to see an aussie supercar, but the thing thats always baffled me is reluctance to build mid-size sedans in australia. Imagine if either holden or ford were willing to build quality rear-wheel drive mid-size sedans (a la bmw 3 series, c-class mercedes or lexus is250).

90% of what any of those marques offer for 75% the price and i for one would definately buy local! Changing perceptions and rising fuel prices will all but kill our current large, overweight family cars. (good excuse to revive the torana namplate too) :D
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About time. The Aussie car industry is still around because its a tax on every Australian. Costing us billions in Tariffs and "assistance". Now because of the gutless pollies unable to say "no, stand on your own two feet" the industry has be left behind producing cars that are only wanted by the westies, ironically the same ones that cannot afford such poorly made inefficient rattle buckets.

And the billions that could of gone into innovation and new industries has been wasted!
 

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