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The dry clutch Powershift transmission was never a suitable option for our stop/start gridlocked suburban conditions as by nature its continually changing up and down as it crawls through traffic which can only equate to clutch friction wear and heat. Ford should have acknowledged the issue and fixed it permenantly rather than deny it initially, blame the customers driving style and eventually apply a bandaid in the form of clutch packs and software updates that only prolonged the inconvenience and tarnished the badge. Whilst Ranger and Everest are popular products they also have expensive and susceptible drivelines which could quite easily lead to the same end and would be devestating should it eventuate. The EGR cooler and injector issues on 3.2l examples, pump gears on 2.0l/10A examples and already tailshaft issue on next Gen are all preventable. Whilst its true all manufacturers have issues, you'd expect a brand with Fords recent experience to learn and get it right. Are VW still selling non compliant diesel engines? |
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What spec is that green stang? Is that a new colour?
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Manuals now only account for less than 5% of sales. That’s why. Give it a few more years and that will be 1 or 2%.
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MY22.25 GT demo in Eruption Green, now discontinued colour, one of those in between Us to Aus deletions like my fav colour of all time, Royal Crimson.
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Not under my watch! We have a Transit Custom long term demo too (out at the time) and we just got rid of a Fiesta ST demo a month ago, unfortunately won't be able to put another. I have faith in the entire range and aim to move more Puma in 23.
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I think you can still get a lot of manuals at Mazda, well done to them.
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Mazda have just deleted cx5 manual yeah nobody one anyway I suppose.
It’s a shame five percent of Fords total sales can’t be manual. Even Ranger no manual now. A six speed manual Puma yes I d buy one. |
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(Play a game as you drive, call the colours of the oncoming cars: it goes something like this: white, black, white, silver, grey, grey, grey, silver, grey, white, white, white, RED! omg another colour! white, black, grey, grey... When I was a little kid there was a great children's book by an author named Bill Peet that had a world of only grey/one colour cars. In the story, someone gives them all bright, happy colours and the world is better. We need this now.) barra240T, that's a fantastic green mustang, it's like Poly Green...
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I just wish I ordered a colour instead of just accepting white with my two Rangers. Next Ranger will be either red or the stunning Blue Lightning.
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No wonder people are moving to SUVs. Even small ones. Regular cars are getting lower and lower to the ground.
Not having to worry about smashing your lower bumper into the road when going in and out of driveways is always good. |
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Is a Hiace 12 seat bus an SUV.
These regularly scrape the front |
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Teal Glow is all time.
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![]() But I do enjoy seeing things like Nitro/Octane Falcons getting around, there's a lack of these bright/iridescent colours with modern cars, everything is white or shades of grey. |
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It’s a symptom, not the cause. |
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What’s your take on manual gearbox vehicles no longer being available barra240t?
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At least Ford has Sedona Orange and that bright metallic yellow on the ranger which is a nice change.. And Mazda has that amazing Candy Red and even a Kaki type colour.. Falcon and Commodore always had decent colour options... My MY17 SSV Redline is in Light My Fire which is a nice, bright, metallic orange but you could also get Spitfire Green (bright) Red Hot and even Slipstream Blue which was nice. FGX had Aero, Kinetic, Victory Gold... Ahh, the good old days... And thats just the last of the line for those models.. So many awesome colours over the years as an option...
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Mazda 323 manual Mirage manual Polo Gti manual Focus Sport manual Focus ST manual Fiesta Sport manual Mustang Ecoboost manual Mustang GT manual Fiesta ST manual My take is, its pretty damn sad, but, what can you do? That is the manufacturers choice. I'll be keeping the Fiesta for a bit anyway.
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Our Sprint in Poly green with the ubiquitous 90's pale grey trim (sexed up with red, yes, red highlights and a busy seat cloth) is now quite a cool colour combo. But I do worry about the condition of people's souls, with such miserable colour palettes selling well today.
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I know the thinking behind white vehicles. It is someone may not want white but very few people have a complete negative reaction to it. Whereas you give people a choice. all of a sudden "i don't like red. i don't like blue" etc. White is neutral, sort of
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I think Ford did a great job with personalization during the BA and BF era. From memory, that was Geoff Polities directive, to make the Falcon desirable in the private sales sector, giving the average Joe a chance to custom spec his car without having to go and spend up big on a BMW or Mercedes. That carried over into the early FG series but was all but gone by the 2010. Expanding on this, lets look at say a BF XR6 Sedan - -Choice of 3 transmissions (6 sped man, 4 speed auto, 6 speed auto) -Choice of 2 differentials (STD or LSD) -Choice of 2 wheel designs -Choice of 14 exterior colours -Choice of sunroof -Choice of 6 cloth trim colours -Choice of full leather trim -Choice of 6 luxury pack leather/suede trim colours (In other words, you in theory had 13 interior trims to choose from!) -Choice of 3 audio systems -Choice of 5 different steering wheels (Momo red/grey/blue, standard XR or FPV spec) And yet, 90% of N/A XR6 Sedans were painted Mercury Silver (great colour, just very common) with grey cloth trim and specified with a 4 speed auto and 17 inch wheels. By the time the FG arrived, many of the personalization options were removed. Staying with the same N/A XR6 example, you still had the choice of 3 transmission but the LSD and sunroof were no longer available as an option and no optional steering wheels. -Choice of 13 colours -Choice of 3 wheel designs -Choice of 4 cloth trim colours (Silver, Black, Red, Blue) -Choice of full leather. -Choice of 2 audio systems I jumped at the chance to do something other that a black interior on my FG, its one of my favorite things about the car - FG NA XR6 with 6 speed auto, side curtain airbags, premium sound, 18 inch wheels and the "Streetwise Blue" cloth trim. You rarely see FG XR's with the Blue, Red or Silver trim. ![]() ![]()
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Bayford in Epping - ranger, Everest, mustang ….
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Was a great car, that 5 speed really needed a short shifter though, quite long in the throw!
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The only reason I am going to keep my Mk8 Fiesta ST is because Ford have cut manual from upcoming S650 Ecoboost Fastback, it was going to be my next car (highly underrated in current S550 HP 2.3) but I refuse to buy auto in a performance car. I'm not about 0-100 times, more the feel and enjoyment of holding gears the traditional way.
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Peter Car
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![]() I'd wager a guess and say not many ecoboost manuals were sold here. Would be pretty rare. |
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I've owned both and dare I say, the Ecoboost was a better daily. GT, fantastic, great noise, sounds way better than the 4 banger but the power delivery of the ecoboost was there for daily driving every time, the GT had to be wound up to ridiculous speeds to get what you wanted out of it, both pretty damn fast cars from stock.
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