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| View Poll Results: Would you buy one of these | |||
| Falcadore, all the good bits together and no more war |
   
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14 | 41.18% |
| Falcon, who cares if the V8 was holden based as long as it goes FAST. |
  
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4 | 11.76% |
| Commodore, finally a SV6 that can overtake a Hyundai. |
  
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2 | 5.88% |
| Noooooooooooooooooooo, heretic, heretic, burn the witch.... |
  
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14 | 41.18% |
| Voters: 34. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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11-04-2009, 06:02 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Extrapolating on the current US crisis with GM and Ford.
In the USA GM and Ford both go into backruptsy and a condition of Obama bailing them out is they have to sell offshore manufacturing so they give more jobs to yanks and only make fuel efficient engines so no V8s or large 6s. This means shutting down all Ford and Holden manufacturing facilities or selling them. No one wants them because everyone else has their own problems so Comrade Kev and his band of merry men decide to buy them both to keep Australian jobs provided it will actually work. But now he is faced with a problem, Holden engines are all imported and so are the most of the components of the Ford V8 so in a flash of brilliant advice from some guy named Cochrane he decides to manufacture all the engines here but to save costs have one 6 and one V8 shared between the two marques. Two separate Holden and Ford facilities will break the budget so they will not happen. Holden will get the I6 but do their own cams/plumbing/ECU and a new "Australian" V8 loosly based on the old Holden 308 is to be manufactured. Part of the deal was that no windsor/clevo/modular/LS1 design could be used as they are all copyright/patented/fail euro4 etc. Each side would bet the block etc but again cams/geads/plumbing/ECU would be proprietry So now the the marketing gurus need to know what to do. Should they combine completely and make the Falcadore SXRS etc, do the V8SC thing and have two different shapes for almost the same car or just give up and sell the lot to China as scrap metal. Would you buy one of these? |
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V8 super hypothetical
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