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What do people think about ford cutting the fairlane and ltd from the production line..... |
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The trend here in Aus has been for people to switch to the smaller, more economical cars. ( frigging blood sucking oil companies fault ) If it wasn't for the fleet and government buys Falcon and Commodore would be hard pressed to remain viable these days
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I think that it's very sad. holden made the same mistake in the mid 80's by dropping the Statesman thus handing the big car sales to Ford on a plate (probably as a thanks for Ford dropping the V8).
History tells that every time Ford go to bugger all ef |
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how bout bringing back the compact fairlane or something similar, compact size maybe even a 2 door thing with a bit of cow inside and bells and wistles with a nice little v8 under the bonnet. i'd buy one
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Well if they released the ba bt in a coupe ford could put a big v8 and may be a gt or cobra . It would push the sales through the roof ,what do you guys think.... |
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LTD sales have always been in the few thousand with the most being the P6 with about 5700-5800 sales, not a lot. Cars now can be fully optioned as a fairmont these days, it's the whole wheelbase issue that neesd to be addressed. Traditionally the ltd wa Edited by user Wednesday, 6 June 2007 8:59:47 AM(UTC)
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LTD sales have always been in the few thousand with the most being the p^ with about 5700-580Edited by user Wednesday, 6 June 2007 12:34:56 AM(UTC)
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Arent the present ones on a wagon chasis?
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Wagon wheelbase wagon rear doors but not wagon chassis per se as the Wagons still have cart springs & the luxo's have IRS same as other sedans.
I stripped an NC Fairlane last year whilst doing so I looked at the sills & found that they are one big pa |
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Why is it that people say that Fairlanes and LTD's are huge big tanks then turn around and climb into a 20ft long 6ft high 4wd truck that gets 10mpg to drive around the city and suburbs ??
If these people got over this idiotic fad for driving a truck m
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