f-wolf Member 897 Member For: 17y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: ACT Posted 31/07/16 11:36 PM Share Posted 31/07/16 11:36 PM (edited) Ford Australia has brought to a close 54 years of local Falcon Ute production today, ahead of the company’s total withdrawal from Australian vehicle manufacturing in just 70 days’ time. 29 July 2016 All of it: http://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/last-ever-ford-falcon-ute-leaves-broadmeadows-44155 Edited 31/07/16 11:37 PM by f-wolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breeny Member 88 Member For: 11y 9m 5d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 01/08/16 12:31 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 12:31 AM Sad times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 1m 9d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 01/08/16 01:03 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 01:03 AM Saw this but didn't have the energy to post it up...I think I'd like to own a Ford ute, simply because they are so iconic they will be appreciated in coming years. That and I like to be able to take the wife to church on Sunday and the cops to market on Monday with the one car 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidxr6t skids Donating Members 2,754 Member For: 12y 5d Gender: Not Telling Posted 01/08/16 01:05 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 01:05 AM I'd love one of these but for me it'd be committing financial suicide :( a sad day, I'd love it if ford found another use for the barra 6cyl! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 3m 10d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 01/08/16 01:06 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 01:06 AM 2 minutes ago, -Stever- said: Saw this but didn't have the energy to post it up...I think I'd like to own a Ford ute, simply because they are so iconic they will be appreciated in coming years. That and I like to be able to take the wife to church on Sunday and the cops to market on Monday with the one car 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breeny Member 88 Member For: 11y 9m 5d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 01/08/16 01:39 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 01:39 AM Only good thing about all this is it's making me appreciate mine all the more. She's a keeper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box stock T. Member 1,384 Member For: 9y 8m 26d Posted 01/08/16 02:49 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 02:49 AM Another use for the Bara 6cyl would be to chain then to the ankles of everyone responsible for the death of two of our most iconic companies we ever produced. And then take them fishing. Never to return like our car manufacturing companies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 3m 10d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 01/08/16 03:08 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 03:08 AM It's an interesting situation. Given we are all Ford enthusiasts how many have actually purchased a New Ford from a Ford dealer? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Andrew Gold Donating Members 2,036 Member For: 9y 8m 11d Gender: Male Location: Canberra ACT Posted 01/08/16 03:21 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 03:21 AM It's a good point. I get annoyed with friends bagging the government for not protecting the manufacturers more and then showing me their new Mazda or Subaru. At the end of the day a) we haven't collectively bought enough cars from them and b) they haven't built (or been allowed by parent companies to build) what we collectively want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box stock T. Member 1,384 Member For: 9y 8m 26d Posted 01/08/16 04:10 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 04:10 AM I think we all would have bought them brand new if we didn't have mortgages and children to put through college. And a spare $45,000 to $65,000 would have helped as well. Territory was the closest we got to adapting to a changing market. that's a shout out to the SUV and soft roader crowd lol.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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