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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Something most V8 lovers in Australia have been dreading, the possible loss of affordable V8's.
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http://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/the-state-of-the-v8-20150225-13o43z.html
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Car tragic
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Wild West
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Hand in hand with the impending death of the Australian-made new car.
Hence I'm putting the hand in the pocket for a '15 XR8. |
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Cynical Idealist
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
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Mustang GT won't be affordable?
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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It should be....but it won't be.
Should be $50 - $55000. Expect it to be towards $70000.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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i like the bold sentence in the first paragraph,
"Why Australian car culture is set to become a little bit quieter". I`m seeing more korean buzz boxes with canon exhausts that easily drown out the majority of V8s around town, way louder in the noise department, and my crystal ball sees more of this in the future. quieter in car culture he says ??? |
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Cynical Idealist
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
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How much is XR8?
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Blah blah blah. Journo's have been sprouting this junk since the late sixties and early seventies and here we are thirty years later and so are the V8's. I can't see much changing myself.
Of course Ford are going to try and gouge the price on the Mustang but if sales are no good then watch them quickly lower prices for the next model year. A company makes money by moving stock not sitting on it or having too much of it. Holden did it with the introduction of the VF to make up for no mechanical improvements from the VE and AMG did it last year dropping almost 70k on one of their S class models here I think it was. Affordable V8's will be around for a long time to come I think. Ford and GM will be offering something despite stopping manufacture and Fiat Chrysler Australia's new boss has stated that he wants to get the charger,challenger and ram out here, all of which can come with a V8, in order to bolster the dodge brand out here and tap into more of the performance market alongside the SRT 8 chryslers and jeep. Things may actually just be getting better. |
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: North West Slopes & Plains NSW
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If Mustang is a good seller in Australia don't be surprised to see a 4 door luxury V8 Ford land here priced over $100k eventually.
cheer's, Maka
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Location: melbourne
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What's wrong with forced induction anyway these days?
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what he shoukd have said was that car culture in Australia will now be less affordable.
once the falcon goes, followed by the commodore. it doesn't leave much scope to buy a decent performance car for sensible dollars. for a v8 its going to be a minimum 60k+ plus buy in. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Plenty of non-V8 performance cars on offer... we've never had more choice.
V8s may be cheap now, but that hasn't always been the case. If you wanted a V8 at the height of Commodore/Falcon sales, you paid substantially more than the 6cyl variant, which itself was substantially more than a buzz box. |
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Then the Mustang GT shouldn't be unreasonable at the same price. Yes, it has two fewer doors, but everything else about it is newer than anything in the XR8.
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interesting idea. I'd like to hear more about how you have come to this conclusion. I'd especially like to hear how there is a correlation between FI cars and gay people.
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Barra Turbo > V8
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Ford man xf gets the dh of the month award.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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LOL! The State Of The V8 Article, is nothing more than the usual media bet up (B.S).
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