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Thread ID: 132966	2013-05-24 06:24:00	Ford Falcon to go	Cicero (40)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1342993	2013-05-25 05:05:00	Bring back the Anglia, I have good memories in the back seat of them. AS I do with the back seat of a MKII Zephyr.	paulw (1826)
1342994	2013-05-25 15:45:00	Paradise by the dashboard light.	zqwerty (97)
1342995	2013-05-25 21:44:00	This is just the logical end result of the Aussie Auto Workers Union's activities over many years. It has just become far too expensive to continue to build cars over the ditch. The AWU in the US has pretty much done the same to the home industry over there. Detroit has become a crime ridden ghost town after being a great hub of local auto manufacturing not very many years ago.	CliveM (6007)
1342996	2013-05-26 08:02:00	Bring back the Anglia, I have good memories in the back seat of them. The Anglia 105E had leg straps in the back! Very handy at the drive in cinema.	mzee (3324)
1342997	2013-05-26 08:13:00	Bring back the Anglia, I have good memories in the back seat of them. The Anglia 105E had leg straps in the back! Very handy at the drive in cinema.	mzee (3324)
1342998	2013-05-26 12:00:00	How can you mention Standard 8 /10 in a Ford thread pretty sure its against the law. Nah! Its OK if you are dissing the Ford. My first car was a 1959 Standard 10 which was very reliable, then next was a 1960 Ford Thames Van that didn't like head gaskets, and later munched its gearbox bigtime. That was followed by a Ford Escort Van that had piston slap for Africa. I then bought a Simca 1100 with go faster bits and it was a real pocket rocket. I never went back to Ford again as an owner, I tried a Honda but it had an incurable disease of some sort that the agents could never fix, but it only acted up in cold weather so I sold it in midsummer, bought a Mazda and have had trouble free motoring for the last 400,000km through four Mazdas. I'm on my second (a 6) and Mrs T is on her second (a 121/Demio). I had Holden Commodores as business vehicles but they were too unreliable as well, how any Aussie could drive the outback in one of those escapes me. I converted that employer to Mazdas 626's and we thrashed them up and down the country for years with no breakdowns at all. I'm not surprised that Ford are packing up their tents, they can't compete with the Japanese, and the Koreans and Chinese are hot on their heels. I'd pack them up myself if I was in their shoes. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1342999	2013-05-26 21:19:00	The Anglia 105E had leg straps in the back! Very handy at the drive in cinema. I wonder where you would drive to today? What with leg straps, can't think where I would go!	Cicero (40)
1343000	2013-05-26 21:36:00	Maybe the Anglia was the first "Gay" icon :yuck:	Lawrence (2987)
1343001	2013-05-26 22:18:00	Maybe the Anglia was the first "Gay" icon :yuck: God only knows where that thought originated.	Cicero (40)
1343002	2013-05-26 22:23:00	Pretty old news, both Ford an GM announced a year or two ago they would be consolidating manufacturing and removing local models from the market. It makes economic sense for them to standardise to fewer models and manufacture them all in the same few plants rather than continue to make different models in different factoies for differnt markets. It's no secret american car manufacturers have been struggling for some time now. It's possible components from falcons or commodores etc could find their way into new models but the days of V8 powered rear wheel drive sedans are numbered, if such models continue they are likely to be in the form of sports or supercar models selling for a premium. Americas emission control laws pertty much ensure this will happen, they will design for their own market and whatever they sell here will be an afterthought based on that. Get ready to replace that falcon with a taurus when the time comes :P	dugimodo (138)
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