vFacts October 2019

[BENT_8]

Originally Posted by Dr Smith

PS I take upbridge at the "largely untouched" Falcon comment but then again I know the people who "did nothing" on it from 1996 to 2016, lol....

Sorry, obviously worded poorly, my point was that VF is not just a reskinned VT as an FG is to BA or even AU in reality, there's no doubt the Falcon had money and time spent on it, DOHC and IRS etc. but it wasn't an entirely new product as VE was to VZ apart from the alloytec.

Which is why I said in comparison.

[jpd80]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

Sorry, obviously worded poorly, my point was that VF is not just a reskinned VT as an FG is to BA or even AU in reality, there's no doubt the Falcon had money and time spent on it, DOHC and IRS etc. but it wasn't an entirely new product as VE was to VZ apart from the alloytec.

Which is why I said in comparison.

They still managed to spend close to $700 million on developing FG, shows how you can change everything and still end up with a car that looks similar to the older one. As nice as FG was perhaps it needed a little more aggressive styling than the softer euro kinetic.

On another note, zetas product envelope was to cover a large SUV with 120” wheelbase, presumably Chevy Traverse. What a shame that Commodore didn’t have its own “Territory”, I could imagine a ton more sales.

[Dr Smith]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

Sorry, obviously worded poorly, my point was that VF is not just a reskinned VT as an FG is to BA or even AU in reality, there's no doubt the Falcon had money and time spent on it, DOHC and IRS etc. but it wasn't an entirely new product as VE was to VZ apart from the alloytec.

Which is why I said in comparison.

All good..maybe Ford should have asked for the same scale of funding and it could have done the same as VE to VF, especially the tech..although I think they should have dumped Falcon earlier and gone and spent more on Territory...