jack93 New Member 16 Member For: 11y 9m 3d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 09/01/15 10:23 PM Share Posted 09/01/15 10:23 PM The old 08 BF XR6T is slowly creeping unto 160,000 so I decided to jump in and buy my first new car, that was until Ford quoted me 75k for the new XR8.As such I've been knocked down a peg being a full time uni student with a part time job and deemed anything past 60 was getting a bit risky price wise so instead the plan is now to get a FG MKII F6 provided the old 310kw XR6T rumours stay rumours....My one major issue - so many automatics! I only just started looking into the F6's in the last week and the only two manuals I can find are both utes, I love my ZF box, but my left foot misses a clutch pedal even more, I was just curious - is there any reason to this? Were the Tremecs bad? Or is everyone with a manual too busy loving their car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stripes. All stock bar the k&n panel filter Silver Donating Members 8,061 Member For: 12y 9m 9d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 09/01/15 10:49 PM Share Posted 09/01/15 10:49 PM The ZF is a great match for the turbos, you loose boost between gear changes in the manual, so the turbo needs to spool up again each time you change gears...so the ZF equipped cars are generally half a second quicker down the quarter mile than the manual equivalent. Fun factor though, the manuals are great. The TR6060's can be a bit hit and miss with respects to rollover noise and grinding going into 2nd gear under load...luck of the draw really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack93 New Member 16 Member For: 11y 9m 3d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 09/01/15 10:57 PM Author Share Posted 09/01/15 10:57 PM Cheers buddy, I know what you mean with the ZF and god is it lovely. But it's just getting boring driving now and slowly getting over the whole 'women drive autos' for the last few years.At the end of the day it's a daily driver which will hardly face traffic (shift work) and ET's down the 1/4 are being forced to the back of the mind as we all know where chasing the next hundredth leaves us...I've had a little gander over the forums here and there looking for issues with the MKII F6, all I could find was the usual diff noises and axel tramp, plastic interior, clutch noises etc. anything major other than that now they've been around for a few years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 7m 18d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 09/01/15 11:30 PM Share Posted 09/01/15 11:30 PM Mm manual f6 Would be lovely to drive Good luck bud Look out for an auto green one with 197000 kmsStay away lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtRmn8 570Nm @1800rpm Donating Members 2,441 Member For: 21y 3m 1d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 10/01/15 01:28 AM Share Posted 10/01/15 01:28 AM The old 08 BF XR6T is slowly creeping unto 160,000 so I decided to jump in and buy my first new car, that was until Ford quoted me 75k for the new XR8.Sounds like you went may have gone to Titan Ford for an XR8 quote At the end of the day if you are serious you may be better off buying something over east. You will have lots more choice and also pay less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyOne Bronze Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 11y 5m 21d Gender: Male Posted 10/01/15 05:52 AM Share Posted 10/01/15 05:52 AM quote me on this - there will be no xrt310 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack93 New Member 16 Member For: 11y 9m 3d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 10/01/15 06:33 AM Author Share Posted 10/01/15 06:33 AM Sounds like you went may have gone to Titan Ford for an XR8 quote At the end of the day if you are serious you may be better off buying something over east. You will have lots more choice and also pay less.Good guess good sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Jeturbo Bob the Freaking Builder Donating Members 10,813 Member For: 15y 3m 9d Gender: Female Location: SA Posted 10/01/15 06:54 AM Share Posted 10/01/15 06:54 AM Mm manual f6 Would be lovely to drive Good luck bud Look out for an auto green one with 197000 kmsStay away lolI freaking loled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTR_NITRO_FG Donating Members 3,214 Member For: 11y 6m 27d Gender: Male Location: NOR Perth Posted 10/01/15 08:33 AM Share Posted 10/01/15 08:33 AM 75k? The dealer is trying to pull some stupid sh*t!Its $52,490 + on roads. Which I think I read should be right on the 60k mark drive away. Just call a few different dealerships and someone will be able to do the deal for around 60k. Might be a little wait though...while it gets built. I would expect mid to late this year? Some dealers are carnts and just trying to make a quick buck for these "last falcons"..I.e. someone recently posted a link to a 2013 F6 for 85k...ridiculous!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack93 New Member 16 Member For: 11y 9m 3d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 10/01/15 08:28 PM Author Share Posted 10/01/15 08:28 PM Yeah, they're saying 'market value' and each dealership is only getting assigned X amount with Titan being the second largest and only getting 7. The next manual is due in March apparently.Figured it'd be easier to settle for a F6 which has been run in and I still get the old turbo boost with damn close to the same power for 10-15k less than RRP+ORC for the XR8, let alone the extra 15k 'market value' cost.Just need to wait until a manual pops up, even though this bad boy has been haunting me for a few days - http://www.carsales.com.au/dealer/details/Ford-Performance-Vehicles-F6-2012/AGC-AD-17044557/?Cr=5&sdmvc=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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