Pete A Member 442 Member For: 16y 1d Gender: Male Location: Castle Hill NSW Posted 13/01/10 08:02 AM Share Posted 13/01/10 08:02 AM I have not heard that, but I believe it. Simply is is one of the best Fords ever built, and I've driven most (not all)of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ENVI.BA Member 146 Member For: 15y 11m 23d Gender: Male Location: 2155 Posted 13/01/10 08:58 AM Share Posted 13/01/10 08:58 AM (edited) Ford Australia is only 18 months into the life-cycle of our all-new FG Falcon, which means that a replacement model isn't due until approximately 2015. It is important to understand that we are following our normal timeline and cadence of new model development and introduction. We are using the next 18 months – 2 years to conduct in-depth consumer research to determine what a successful replacement vehicle will need to offer Australian customers in an extremely competitive marketplace. correct me if im wrong but nearly 7 years is a long time for a single model. would this be the equivalent to the b series (BA -BF) IE the current model being an F Series Falcon ? Edited 13/01/10 09:01 AM by ENVI.BA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Here since the start... Lifetime Members 10,282 Member For: 21y 7m 8d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 13/01/10 09:00 AM Share Posted 13/01/10 09:00 AM The question begs... Why won't Ford export the Falcon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete A Member 442 Member For: 16y 1d Gender: Male Location: Castle Hill NSW Posted 13/01/10 02:14 PM Share Posted 13/01/10 02:14 PM Yes, this is standard life cycle of a platformAu1,11,111BA 1,2 BF1,2 Many would argue that BA and BF are really the same platform.FG will be the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete A Member 442 Member For: 16y 1d Gender: Male Location: Castle Hill NSW Posted 13/01/10 02:26 PM Share Posted 13/01/10 02:26 PM The question begs... Why won't Ford export the Falcon?It is a pity because we build probably the next best quality Fords outside Europe, and that's probably a split decision as well. My own personal opinion, it that it rarely works long term, and Ford want to keep employing US workers. Imports from the US have pretty much failed here because we have different expectations of cars. Let's face it, other than a few like Mustang and the like, the Yanks build butt ugly cars! Ford are not totally stupid. They already know that importing US platforms to Aus has failed in the past, and will fail again. I still think that whatever happens to the Falcon name in 2013 or whenever, there will still be a significant local content in whatever replaces the FG here.I don't think Expensive Daewoo exports to the US has succeeded at all. Would be interesting to see the cost vs benefit of the whole exercise once you get past the PR BS which let's face it Expensive Daewoo excels. I am very surprised that the US Government allows GM to import cars when they owe the government so much money. I would have thought one of the provisos to the loans would be based upon generating local market grown and not relying on imports which have very little local content for US workers when they are built is AUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxr64t XXR.64T Donating Members 560 Member For: 19y 6m 2d Gender: Male Location: sydney's east!!! Posted 13/01/10 09:31 PM Share Posted 13/01/10 09:31 PM "Mr Mulally would not say if Ford Australia would play a leading role in developing the large car platform, or whether a local version of the global car would be built in Australia." quoted from the 1st articleFord would be smart if Australia had some part in the large car section.Also I wonder what is going to happen to germany and the ford focus and fiesta. They still German built??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete A Member 442 Member For: 16y 1d Gender: Male Location: Castle Hill NSW Posted 14/01/10 01:58 AM Share Posted 14/01/10 01:58 AM It will be driven by the same issues as here. Does Ford want to retain a viable European manufacturing business? Given the number of vehicles supplied out of those plants to just the European market, I think the answer is a big YES. Would they spread the manufacturing to say 2 regions (Europe and Aussie for example)to share the load and provide that individual touch to the southern hemisphere? That would make sense. But it will get down to how much they cost to build and how much they can sell them for and how much to support them - like any business. This is where the risk lies, because you would have to understand that vehicles are cheaper to build somewhere like Malasia than Aussie. Hope that NEVER happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunna Donating Members 813 Member For: 18y 3m 9d Posted 14/01/10 02:03 AM Share Posted 14/01/10 02:03 AM correct me if im wrong but nearly 7 years is a long time for a single model. would this be the equivalent to the b series (BA -BF) IE the current model being an F Series Falcon ?Exactly - think EA to EL, and AU to BF. We're talking generations rather than iterations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speaktobrett Member 38 Member For: 16y 18d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 15/01/10 12:10 AM Share Posted 15/01/10 12:10 AM It is inevitable... time will only tell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corzza 777 Member 7,135 Member For: 15y 10m 3d Gender: Male Location: Neutral Bay. Born and Bred in the RSA Posted 15/01/10 05:02 AM Share Posted 15/01/10 05:02 AM Who has read the 2010 Motor mag about the new Boss supercharged? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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