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My cousins in Canada have bought a Ford Explorer Limited. Don't look at the price..you will cry..same price as a G6 !!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn0t1J-haf4
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If it comes to Australia that will be worth at least 80,000 bucks
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I generally try to keep away from foreign car websites...looking a the price of vehicles makes me cry.
What with import tariffs, protectionist duties to shield the delicate little flowers of car makers we have here from the big bad world, and Australia being about the only place on Earth where you can't just jump in an drive a brand new left hand drive car on the roads, we pay through the nose for foreign vehicles...always have, always will. ![]() |
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Back that ugly POS up a few meters and hope a freight train destroys it.
Why do yanks make such ugly cars... |
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Unless everyone wants to work for the same price that other nations are able to, then yes give us those 'protectionist' duties to protect our flowers.
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Supamegafugly.....
Thing is a barking dog.
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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I've always been against import tariffs...
The problem is that our car makers know damn well they don't have to try harder to make a better product, and haven't since the early 1970's. The biggest giveaway was when Pontiac started selling LHD "Pontiac G8's" which were just converted Commodores...for heaps less than the price we could buy the original car here in Australia. That opened a lot of peoples eyes... |
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"Winning"
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there is no duty (tariffs) on US & Canadian made cars into Aust.
There is GST, but there is GST on Australian cars as well. There is freight and of course to bring a vehicle in less than 15 yrs of age you will need to own & use it overseas for 12months...this is so you can get the import permit from Department of Enviroment & Transport cheers |
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Close G6E
but no cigar this started with the Capri convertible back in 88 $17k Australian here and landed and converted to LHD in the US $14k that sucks |
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Excessive Fuel Ingestion
Join Date: Dec 2004
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If that's the new Ford family styling that's on it's way here eventually, then they've lost me for a potential customer.....for anything that may resemble it whatever model/vehicle.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Face like a botched boob job..
If that comes here it doesn't matter what price they sell it at. It's not the car Australians want or need. God the American designs are gauche and stupid. |
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the tail lights remind me of the new territory
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AU/US dollar value at the time
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I like it. I had a 2004 Explorer, and this looks just as good IMO. Grill is very F250-ish, which for some seems over the top, but I like it.
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This is similar to most other SUVs in Australia?? It may be the same price as a G6 Falcon, but you can get an XR6 Falcon for $34,990 drive away...? Last edited by MrZ; 19-05-2011 at 03:09 AM. |
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