Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 2m 6d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 10/02/13 08:08 PM Share Posted 10/02/13 08:08 PM When a lot of members..including admins...came from Holden's it's not much of hard thing to work out....Make for an interesting poll actually...http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/83938-what-is-your-car-background-ford-holden-or-other/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johno Donating Members 773 Member For: 14y 3m 9d Gender: Male Location: Mt Gambier, SA Posted 10/02/13 08:37 PM Share Posted 10/02/13 08:37 PM I think I might get into the Chev badge production business. Gunna be a rush on those for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flukey Seriously Flukey Member Donating Members 4,354 Member For: 20y 9m 29d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 10/02/13 09:31 PM Share Posted 10/02/13 09:31 PM (edited) My thoughts exactly.There seems to be a panic.Wait and see what Ford has in store,besideswhat we have seen is the General's top Late model camira the Calais.Will the base model look as goodas the Calais?Even the HSV GTS is rumoured to have the "new" 6.2L with 335 kw and just over 600nm.The current GT Falcon has the same kwand only about 40 nm less.Ford only needs small improvements in power and torque with the main problem I see is being able to get the power onto the ground.A "little" re-flash of the F6 would most likely surpass the new 6.2L in power and torque.So all we can do is wait maybe Ford will come through with the goods....or not :(Buying a new car has got to be have more to do with it than just kw's.The FG now looks about 10 years behind the Late model camira and is going to struggle further.Are Ford even bothering to do an upgrade? Edited 10/02/13 09:32 PM by Flukey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatserman Member 29 Member For: 14y 7m 16d Gender: Male Location: Mackay QLD Posted 10/02/13 09:52 PM Share Posted 10/02/13 09:52 PM I bought my xr6t for pure performance. I paid 32k for mine and I can keep up with current model hsv's. The way I see it they paid nearly double for a bit more bling.. I used to be a Expensive Daewoo fan even worked there as an apprentice motor mechanic. I had a Vp s pack with ss body kit senator leather seats lowered mags and dropped a 5L in to it later on. But once I drove the xr6t I was sold. Also all these extra additions I have heard about like parking assist and the crash feature that alerts you if your going to hit a car infront of you. There just another electrical thing that can stuff up. I wouldn't go any where near a vf until a s2 or even s3. Even then I wouldn't I'd probably test drive one but only if it has a hair dryer hanging off the side of it.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletime Donating Members 937 Member For: 14y 11d Gender: Male Posted 11/02/13 07:08 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 07:08 AM Showed the drive.com.au article to a guy at work who has a ve series 2 hsv gts and he wasn't very impressed, he didn't reallly like the look of it, even looking at the v8 supercar vfs that were shown off today, the rear just looks like a NASCAR, and he still wasn't sold on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henz Tampon inserted, Auto Acquired, next purchase a new handbag Donating Members 9,946 Member For: 16y 10m Gender: Male Location: Vic Posted 11/02/13 07:12 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 07:12 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pazzo Donating Members 11,132 Member For: 14y 2m 29d Gender: Male Posted 11/02/13 07:20 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 07:20 AM NASCAR version.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletime Donating Members 937 Member For: 14y 11d Gender: Male Posted 11/02/13 07:22 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 07:22 AM (edited) Now compare the rears!Also the front on the Calais looks a lot more like the NASCAR Edited 11/02/13 07:23 AM by Bulletime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timetaker Donating Members 217 Member For: 14y 1m 4d Gender: Male Posted 11/02/13 08:19 AM Author Share Posted 11/02/13 08:19 AM Buying a new car has got to be have more to do with it than just kw's.The FG now looks about 10 years behind the Late model camira and is going to struggle further.Are Ford even bothering to do an upgrade?Buying a car from a company's high performance offerings has mainly to do with power and torque.I'm not interested in Holden's or Ford's base cars.I would say that most members' interest would be concerning the HSV and FPV offerings.I disagree that the FG looks a decade behind the Commodore,infact the I would say that the FG has aged well by having a more enduring shape but of course this is just my opinion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 5m 19d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 11/02/13 08:21 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 08:21 AM The FG has aged well.. And the VE commie also aged well..Any car ages well until the next model is released in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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