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29-09-2010, 10:06 PM | #271 | |||
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It is a shame that the Wagon has done its dash. I always had a soft spot for them, but the 'traditional' wagon is slowly becoming irrelevant in today's market, as the market has fractured into 'SportWagons' and Soft Roaders (because I hate SUV). Unfortunately, there isn't enough of a market to sustain Territory and Wagon. We will never know the fate of Falcon Wagons if Territory didn't exist. We may well have our FG Sportswagon. I wonder what Telstra will move onto? A Diesel Territory may be a good option if they wish to use Australian built models. Was there any fanfare for the Falcon Wagon at Broadmeadows today? I would like to hope they have done something for it.
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29-09-2010, 10:45 PM | #272 | ||
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Plant was shut down for planned annual leave on thus and fri for production and RDO on mon. Production workers have there annual leave planned by the company, they don't get a choice of when they can take it. Usually annual leave and RDO are planned around religious holidays, school holidays or in this case AFL GF.
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30-09-2010, 12:09 AM | #273 | |||
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30-09-2010, 12:47 AM | #274 | |||
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30-09-2010, 02:19 PM | #275 | |||
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30-09-2010, 09:25 PM | #276 | ||
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Thankgod for station wagons......buggered if im driving a Tarago or anything similar. A proper 4wd Territory would be great though.....anychance of a ranger/territory combo????
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30-09-2010, 09:58 PM | #277 | |||
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30-09-2010, 10:02 PM | #278 | |||
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30-09-2010, 10:41 PM | #279 | |||
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As long as the Edge/Explorer is still around in the Ford world, there will be a Territory. Whether Territory exists of its own right, or if it is imported from the USA as an Edgeplorer, remains to be seen, but I think Territory is safe for a while yet.
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30-09-2010, 10:57 PM | #280 | |||
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Toyota seem to have all the bases covered with the RAV4, Kluger, Prado and Landcruiser. 2 soft roaders and 2 hard core off roaders. Although I do still wonder why they made the RAV4 so close in size to the Kluger, but when you look at the feature sets of the two, that is how they keep them apart, as suggested above.
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01-10-2010, 06:20 AM | #281 | ||
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I think it would be cool for Ford to have a full range of crossover SUVs.
1)Ecosport (Fiesta/Figo based from South America) 2)Kuga or new US Escape 3)T6 Everest (That should have been called explorer) 4)Territory 5)Expedition (fitted with 4.4 or 6.7 V8 diesel) |
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24-09-2017, 11:32 AM | #282 | ||
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Is anyway able to confirm the exact day the last petrol Ford Falcon Station Wagon rolled off the line. From earlier in this it looks like was to be June 2010...wondered if that is actually what it turned out to be. I understand the manufacture of the LPG ones was later.
Just got a June 2010 BF Falcon Wagon...a sticker inside the door says it was printed 28 June 2010 so wondering how close this wagon is to being the last? Does anyone know exact dates? |
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24-09-2017, 11:42 AM | #283 | |||
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24-09-2017, 12:26 PM | #284 | |||
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27-09-2017, 06:51 PM | #285 | |||
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27-09-2017, 07:02 PM | #286 | ||
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drop the rear seat. paint the side windows black(from the inside) bit of a mattress, you all set
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27-09-2017, 10:28 PM | #287 | ||
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Thanks Windsor220 and Olbucko for your info.
Olbucko it would have been good to see the line. It sounds like you were there the day mine was made...wel at least the sticker! Anyone else know how you could find the exact date the last petrol Falcon was manufactured? |
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28-09-2017, 01:04 PM | #288 | |||
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28-09-2017, 04:23 PM | #289 | ||
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Timely thread mine!
I've just arrived in Yass, 2 days into our 9 day trip from Adelaide to Sydney and return to watch our Daughters sport. We thought we'd take our time and stop at various towns for a look along the way and stretch it over 3 days. The weapon of choice is my BF3 Egas wagon and what a ride, so comfortable for touring around, 4 adults, fully loaded luggage compartment and returning 12.8l/100km with A/C on from Barmera and paying between 69.9 (Mildura independent) and 76.9cpl (Caltex Wagga) so sub $100 thus far for the 1100km we've covered. That's 4cyl territory! I'd calculated we'd use around $250 worth of gas for the 2800km return trip which is looking bang on the money at this stage. I still find it hard to believe that more people didn't buy these things when they were in production, bloody great car for our big country. Egas Wagon..FTW! |
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28-09-2017, 04:33 PM | #290 | ||
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If you get a chance drop in at Gunning 36km north of Yass towards Sydney, nice little town. Bailey's garage is worth a picture, you can follow the Old Hume up over the Cullerin range back to the superslab. Worth the detour. Great car the wagons.
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28-09-2017, 04:55 PM | #291 | ||
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Will it bring me back to the slab before Belangelo, I've got a real interest for Aussie crime and want some pics of the memorial to the backpackers.
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28-09-2017, 05:19 PM | #292 | |||
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The Belanglo State Forest is about 45mins on the Syd side of Goulburn.
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12-10-2017, 09:21 PM | #294 | |||
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For those interested, after travelling the 2905km round trip, coming back via Bathurst which pushed the average fuel consumption out to 12.3l/100km, we managed to complete the journey on $265 of LPG. Was telling a friend this and he basically called me a bloody liar as there's no way I could do it for that much apparently. So I showed him the receipts and did the math...lol Nearly got the old girl stuck in the Belanglo Forest which made all on board a little nervous That fire track into the backpacker memorial is not suitable for anything other than 4x4's as we discovered. And a heads up to anyone passing through Hay and looking for a nice place to lay down for the night, the Highway Inn Motel just off the main street on the road to West Wyalong was perfect in every way, spacious, modern and affordable. |
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13-10-2017, 07:23 PM | #295 | ||
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I'm looking for a wagon right now with some poke and how I wish they made a factory turbo wagon or even an F6 wagon... What's more incredible is the amount of Holden V8 wagons available for sale (which I don't want). Ford could have had that market.
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14-10-2017, 05:49 PM | #296 | |||
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I did a similar length trip last Christmas, furthest point from home was esperance and some of the gas prices in the bush were outrageous. In some places I was paying slightly more for 98. Gas was around $1.45 per litre. It was so high I remember thinking you wouldn't want a dedicated gas setup out here. It's like they are trying to kill off gas in remote wa by pricing.
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14-10-2017, 10:37 PM | #297 | ||
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15-10-2017, 11:50 AM | #300 | ||
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Worked in the ute... Patience would be a virtue. Good fun!
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