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For General Automotive Related Talk If you don't like Holdens either don't open this thread, or read through it learn something off it... I think that Ford changed away from teh E series because the AU's were so different, and again onto the B's because (At the time) Ford wanted to distance themselves as far away as possible from the AU's.
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I have a friend of mine who spent 35 years at Ford Brisbane and have it on good authority they nearly used EC after the EB falcon apparantly it is only us Queenslanders that used the abreviation EC for Earth Closet (outside Dunny).
When Ford Melbourne were notified there was a return mail to verify that the abv was actually for real, This was only about 3 months before the release of the ED falcon
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AU - Alien Unicorn? I think they just keep getting better with age.
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![]() The code AU was based around the standard Ford coding at the time of Australia and rear wheel drive platforms.
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I do understand that this is FORD FORUMS, and that we do have just a few die hard Ford fans here, but this section is for general automotive chat. If you wanna flame someone about their stock 6 Holden beating V8's (as much as I would also like to), please start another thread or do it via PM.
If this thread just gets worse in bagging out Holdens, someone please lock it because it was not intended to do so in anyway. Just a general conversation about "Whats in a name".
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This should never have started, not to mention let run as it did. Back on topic or the thread will be completely pulled
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Ahh just stick with MYXX for model year.
Makes it easier for the non-car types to keep up with models. And I think the VE was Very 'Eavy when compared to the older models weights... Brett (bored this afternoon) |
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Either way personally doesn't worry me, I grew up with Fords and Holdens, then got to understand the Japanese method as well... As I said, I was bored this afternoon. |
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building the xe...
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people should pay atention to what their buying, for instance if theyre looking at buying a falcon, then look a bit at the history or something... i dont know how people can just go out and say i want to buy a "car'...
and on the argument of taking other mnufacturers codes, what about gti? or gt? or gts? or lx, sx and the like... who gives a s**t really... its naming the model of the car, and the grade of it... so people know what it is... |
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I looked up some history on issues, made sure it didnt have those issues and we bought it. Does that make me stupid? Or is realy jsut a case of some people look at cars as a comfortable and effective form of transport and really dont care if it has a VX, BF or WXYZ model code. For the record, I sold the EF, not the AU. We replaced the EF with a Kia Carnival.. hardly something that is anything more than effective comfortable transport.
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I thought the monaro was a CV2 or was that CV8? lol
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The one thing I like about the Commodore series names is they are in chronological order (Well not now with the VE) whereas the Falcons confuse the crap out of me. lol
XK XL XM XP XR XT XW XY XA XB XC XD XE XF EA EB ED EF EL AU BA BF I hope I got that right. lol Anyway it just looks all over the place compared to the Commodores. IMO |
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Maybe they won't even use the VE designation, like Ford with the AV really being the BA?
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48-215, FJ, FE, FC, FB, EK, EJ, EH, HD, HR, HK, HT, HG, HQ, HJ, HX, HZ, WB |
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I think the most likely replacement for the VE could be the VJ, but who knows after then?
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Yeah I was thinking about that today. It is pretty confusing. |
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holden BS has a nice ring to it
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