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Thailand Specials
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Centrefold Lounge
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I LOVE the new look of these, looks very "American".
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Adapt or perish...
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dip!@#$
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Wow...
That's amazing. HSV watched Transformers and got the concept wrong.
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Za Dom spremni
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Adelaide
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hey they forgot one..
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Force Fed Fords
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Enroute
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The front end is far too busy. The wheels are awful and look like something you'd find on a matchbox car. I HATE the Audi fairy lights; they look hideous and like the cheap after market knock offs you can find at supercrap auto's in the $5.00 specials bin. As someone has already said, GO UGLY
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Viper FG XR6 Turbo
Join Date: Jan 2005
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They arnt parkers, indicators or high beams as they are already in the standard VE light, and they have driving lights on the bumper too, so what purpose can they possibly serve? Unless they are stickers like the horrid HSV ute. As for the rest of the thing, the body kit's lines dont even flow with the car at all, it remindes me of of all those skylines with cheap fibreglass bodykit that look like they just hang off the car, certainly doesnt look part of it. It remindes me of the VY/VZ's where they tried to make a bubbly round car look sharp and modern, by sticking some sharp lined bumper bars on. |
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern Suburbs Melbourne
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Agreed, The back is Fugly, but the front doesn't look too bad....still re mind's me of an EVO.
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Location: Maryborough .......... All Ford Club of QLD
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HSV Design School Graduate Assesment ......you pass
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If it ain't broke........
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Location: Sunshine Coast Qld
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Oh my God !!! The back of the ute looks urghhhhhhhhhh, as does the white funny looking car...............At least at FPV they only put some poxy stickers on that thankfully can be peeled off....
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Getting it done.....
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Brisbane
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At the end of the day, interior wise the Ford product is still ahead its now just up to FPV to deliver the latest engineering improvements and of course a brand new engine. Also, while i respect Russ and others who have provided some good points on the issue of differentiation and notability, fact is this is very poor styling. I don't know how it will affect sales, and i don't know if it means FPV and others will go down this sort of outlandish route as well (i hope not) but bad is bad. In fact right now i can't think of a single car released in recent memory that was so dissapointing from a design perspective. Just because its 'out there' doesn't mean its good.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Tasmania..... Moderator: Tas FPV club
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Just finished reading a thread on LS1.
It would appear that HSV invited the LS1 forum to attend a special exclusive preview of the E2 range two days before the official unveiling. What is good about something like that is that the manufacturer is essentially rating that forum in near equal proportions to mainstream media outlets. That a pretty good achievement. However the execution didn't go to plan and in the end the forum didn’t really have the exclusive content ready when members thought it should have been. It’s an interesting read but I wouldn't recommend it, but it does highlight the power forums hold these days.
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VFII SS UTE
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Central Coast
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32 members 6 guests.
keep bagging dont stop now.
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Are the Supercars on yet?
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Tauranga
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Anyone noticed just how high the rear end is on any of the holdens, even the ute rear end is a mile high. i'm pretty tall and couldn't even see the top of the drivers head!! when sitting in my ute,
i reckon the front looks alright
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Peter Car
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: geelong
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They actually look comical.
First thing I did when I saw the photos on Carpoint was laugh. HSV have never got it so wrong. And those 3 spoke wheels on the GTS ![]() |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Tasmania..... Moderator: Tas FPV club
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The advancement in the MRC has been allowed for by virtue of the W427 program, as has the optional brake package so they were developments FPV would have anticipated. Bi model exhausts have been available on export HSVs for a while so that too shouldn’t be a shock. The biggest challenge might be to actually get one touch up on all windows but that is sarcastic. While HSV have undoubtedly moved the game on in terms of technology I serious doubt there are any surprises from FPV perspective and I think that is the biggest plus for us form this launch. I believe Rod has hinted that the next FPV could be even more restrained which will take the two companies further away from each other. I agree with HSVs intent behind wanting to create distinction but its execution is lacking. Until I see these cars in the flesh I am non comitial on their appearance. If the intention was to have a car that stood out from E1 then they have achieved that and then some.
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Now Fordless
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Fremantle, WA
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The E1 looks very plain against these. But there is still too much gong on with the front. It may grow on us but it just doesnt look tough. Wheels are shocking.
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Broken
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Some bold styling in these updated vehicles.
I do not enjoy laying my eyes on any of them I'm afraid. Wish I could say otherwise, but they all look very contrived to me, and those wheels on the GTS, remind me of some 'teddy bear' wheels fitted to a Barina that lived down the road from me. And that is not complimentary. Maybe I'm missing the point big time with new Ford and Holden offering. Maybe I'm just not with it. Because it pains me to admit I still don't feel the love for Fords latest, and believ me I wish I did. I almost feel like a traitor, but that's the way I feel. Anyways, there is not a snow flakes chance in hell i would change over to those latest HSV tacky and over done comic cars, the previous 317's however, well, in black, with a GTS badge, that's another story. A bet there's a load of disheartened HSV followers out there. Or not? Maybe they'd update to a steaming poo with a HSV badge and 20's...?
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Mercury Silver T3
Join Date: Jan 2005
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ff members weren't all that favorable on the front of the w427. Would you now say it looks alot better than the new clubbly frontends?
http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/Ar...rticleID=49259
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7,753
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Tasmania..... Moderator: Tas FPV club
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Are we saying something different to any other forum in Australia?
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mustang pilot
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SA
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E2 fills me with the same horror I felt when I first saw an FG GT.The shock of the new?......nope-not 12 months down the track.I think though-that styling wise the FG GS and XR's are winners as were the VE 1 HSV's. |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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But having given the W427 the once over a few months ago, they are put together, and come together pretty well. Not so the styling of those E2's, yuk, just yuk.
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Not of the Sooty variety!
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The E2 does make the E1 look quite dated, however there is no getting around that the E2 individual design elements, just don't plain work together they way the have made it. IMO, whilst it may be impactful, it is not even close to being a cohesive design and just looks plain tacky.
However what HSV should be very much commended for is that they offer a lot of options, to allow their customers to build "their own" HSV. This I hope, is something that FPV take on board and offer to it's customers.
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VFII SS UTE
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Central Coast
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but i'v never seen photos do any cars justice, past and present. i will pass judgement when i can put my hand on it.
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Regular Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Perth, W.A.
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In regards to E2, all I can say is... Take it back, HSV, now. Please. My eyes! They huuurrrrrrtttt. I still think that the BF FPV's are the best overall looking late model cars that Ford (FPV) or Holden (HSV) have produced, by miles. |
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![]() Thats why the car has those running lights, because it like most deep sea creatures it needs the glow to attract pray.
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the 427 looks like Meagn Fox compared to the E2 GTS
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Hehe. Let's not compare the 427 to anything else then, it'll stop looking like Megan Fox.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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After a few more looks at it, it is starting to grow on me but only in black or red. I also agree that it makes the E1 look dated including the W427.
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