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Originally Posted by Bluehoon
I think I speak for most when I say that I totally agree with you there. Compared to most other makes and models there is a huge gap.
In saying that, do you want a drivers car or a tech car?
In essence I love the driving experience and am hanging for the last XR8, in manual. The car is what it is, and will be what it will be. If you want to experience a true drivers car there won't be better then the FH for what we will pay.For some the tech makes 'em smile, for the drivers the car will.
I'll take great pride in launching my technologically antequated falcon, smiling, knowing my opponent was too busy with facebook.
Holden can have their tech and apps, let the I6T and Coyote lay rubber for years to come.
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In a perfect world I'd have both technology and a drivers car at the price of a FH XR8 but that won't happen in a Ford Falcon. Frankly I can see very good reasons why the VF SSV-Redline is selling it socks off and I think the public out there arn't as silly as many on here make them out to be. That car at its price point is an absolute blinder for Holden in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by prydey
why didn't you go on to add all the cars that these features are in? at falcon's price point of course! and those that do, perhaps you could also compare the budgets they had spent on them, and the ROI of that particular model!
and comparing a performance falcon with 7 series BMW 
and yet, with all that technology, Holden are also shutting up shop.
throwing stones is easy. sometimes the hardest thing is putting emotion aside and accepting that Ford (global) have done the right thing by pulling the plug. |
Holden tried with their VF, you've got to give them credit for trying.
Have a look at
www.ford.com and the level of technology in the latest Taurus and ask yourself why Ford starved the Falcon of the best technology, that's right, it was a deliberate decision to kill the Falcon off.
Different price point the 7 Series BMW but only because its so heavily taxed and the local distributors are so blatantly price gouging.
The final Falcon presents us with with a stark choice of that there is no doubt.
A final fling with the past and all the emotion that's involved with the history of the Falcon for more than 50 years, a good drivers car, albeit with a chassis that's stretched right to its limit with the SC and I6T motors and bereft of the latest available technology...or wait for the Mustang and hope for the best, or defect to the Red team and enjoy arguably a better chassis / handling experience along with a raft of current technology and all at a very reasonable price, but without the wonderful smooth torque laden delivery of the legendary I6T or the raw power of the V8 SC 335.
Kiwi's are in a better, (perhaps facing an even more perplexing dilema), position and have the added complexity of parallel importing a top end Euro for not much more money than a top of the line SC FPV.
Choice...definitly a first world problem
