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dedja wrote:This what I meant FFS ...

The Ford Territory is a crossover SUV built by Ford Australia and based on the EA169 platform of the Ford BA Falcon. It was released in April 2004. Its code name inside Ford was E265. It won the 2004 Wheels Car of the Year award, the reviewers praising car-like handling and practicality as reasons for its win. Ford had reportedly spent A$500 million on developing the range over four years.
Ford introduced the Territory alongside the existing Falcon wagon, which was built on the same production line. Ford Australia senior executives expected the Falcon wagon to be discontinued soon after the introduction of the Territory, surmising that Falcon wagon sales would substantially decline as fleet buyers migrated to the Territory. However, the two models co-existed for a while because the Falcon wagon retained much of its fleet sales base and the Territory appealed mainly to private buyers. However the Falcon stagon was culled.

pafc1870 wrote:I'll have to find it when I get on my laptop, but Holden put out something the other day saying not to believe all you hear in the media, and that the commodore would be around until at least 2022

HH3 wrote:

dedja wrote:This what I meant FFS ...

The Ford Territory is a crossover SUV built by Ford Australia and based on the EA169 platform of the Ford BA Falcon. It was released in April 2004. Its code name inside Ford was E265. It won the 2004 Wheels Car of the Year award, the reviewers praising car-like handling and practicality as reasons for its win. Ford had reportedly spent A$500 million on developing the range over four years.
Ford introduced the Territory alongside the existing Falcon wagon, which was built on the same production line. Ford Australia senior executives expected the Falcon wagon to be discontinued soon after the introduction of the Territory, surmising that Falcon wagon sales would substantially decline as fleet buyers migrated to the Territory. However, the two models co-existed for a while because the Falcon wagon retained much of its fleet sales base and the Territory appealed mainly to private buyers. However the Falcon stagon was culled.

Thats comparing the Falcon wagon and the Territory. They never released a wagon model in the FG range of Falcons (2008 - ). Id say they're just comparing them because they are larger than a normal Falcon. I reckon the Territory would be safe because its sold internationally, where as the Falcon is only sold outside of Australia and New Zealand on the rare occasion.

gadj1976 wrote:

pafc1870 wrote:I'll have to find it when I get on my laptop, but Holden put out something the other day saying not to believe all you hear in the media, and that the commodore would be around until at least 2022

I remember reading that. I think they were talking about "a" Commodore in the future, whether its a 4cyl, front wheel drive, who knows. But Holden didn't rule it out of the equation.

They have a 10 year agreement with the Govt (signed April 2012) to keep manufacturing. Whether that's a Commodore or something else, time will tell.

Wedgie wrote:Falcon will probably stop then too and thats been an icon in Australia much longer than the Commodore.
On this topic someone suggested to me the other day that we should have a cars forum on here, do others think the demand would warrant it?

westozfalcon wrote:It is amazing how Australians have turned their backs on large sedans in favour of SUV's.

The Ford Falcon Ecoboost is a superb car. In this you have a 2.0ltr turbo four driving the rear wheels (rare in itself) which delivers excellent handling. It pumps out 179kw of power and 350nm of torque and can you can achieve fuel economy of less than 9ltrs per 100km. But if you want to hammer it you can clock 0-100km/h in under 7 seconds. It's a great engineering achievement.

I'd have one over a thirsty Mazda CX7 any day.

kickinit wrote:

westozfalcon wrote:It is amazing how Australians have turned their backs on large sedans in favour of SUV's.

The Ford Falcon Ecoboost is a superb car. In this you have a 2.0ltr turbo four driving the rear wheels (rare in itself) which delivers excellent handling. It pumps out 179kw of power and 350nm of torque and can you can achieve fuel economy of less than 9ltrs per 100km. But if you want to hammer it you can clock 0-100km/h in under 7 seconds. It's a great engineering achievement.

I'd have one over a thirsty Mazda CX7 any day.

yes can be achieved when the manufacture is testing it, very hard to achieve in everyday use. Car manufactures have been manipulating fuel economy for many years.

dedja wrote:You can blame people like me for their demise.

I've owned 2 Commodores and let me just say they weren't the best cars I've owned.

Only have had Mazdas the past 10 years and the quality is light years away.

Am I sad for australian jobs ... yes, but I don't regret spending my money as I consider as wisely.