In other words, it’s still sh*t.

Cheers

F-O

This year’s Epica certainly appears to be a big improvement on the first model. Not as good as the Mondeo, but then the Ford product is significantly more expensive. I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Skoda Octavia (although it is somewhat smaller than either the Epica or the Mondeo). Both the Skoda and the Mondeo have a big big plus over the Epica in one respect, and that’s the availability of a hatchback (even if the Skoda is described as a “sedan” it’s actually a liftback).

The Octavia has it all over both cars in the interior stakes. Why do carmakers insist on boring and heat-absorbing dark interiors for this country? The “build your car” pages at the manufacturers’ websites are a joke: no matter what exterior colour you chose you get a black or dark grey interior. Oh, wait, you can chose leather… oh, that’s black too. Stuuuupid.

I was actually thinking the new revised Epica looks alright… but it’s wasted on these mindless social outcasts.

Here’s an idea, everybody here that is putting dirt on a car THEY HAVE NEVER DRIVEN, how about you all eat a bowl of AIDS ridden d1cks?

Also back in the tyre war days it was only ever a rumor that bridgestone where giving HRT gun tyres, but i think it’s a rumor that was pretty widespread and most people in the know either believed it or wouldn’t have been surprised if it was true. Bridgestone where heavily in bed with HRT at the time from a marketing point of view so it made sense for Bridgestone to want to see HRT winning races over some of their other bridgestone teams.

And your right in Craig Lowndes last championship win it was rusty ingall who pushed him to the line in a holden, and GT did the same thing also in a holden. But neither team had the level of dominance over the rival ford teams that HRT had. I think if you take HRT out the VT commodore and the AU falcon racecars where pretty evenly matched, and many believed at bathurst the AU was actually better because the front bar was a smoother through the air and the fords consistantly ran higher top speeds down conrod straight back in the AU days.

Your also right that ford teams lagged behind the holden teams in terms of professionalism in the late 90′s untill SBR really started to kick goals in combination with ambrose who was VERY good at setting a car up. There is no surprise at all that SBR fell off badly when ambrose left the team because it was really ambrose’s setup skills that made the difference in both ambrose’s last championship win and ingall’s championship win.