For me there’s no convict blood. That’s the difference between a free-settled state like SA and you convicts in the east.

Most but not all of us have a bit of British backround due to because of the convicts shipped here to Australia from England.

Sorta like me! Ive got british, some scotish and some german in me! :)

By the way this is how the ute was invetned! …………..

“The ute was invented back in the early 1930s by a young Ford Australia designer named Lew Bandt in response to a letter from a local farmer requesting Ford build a vehicle he could use during the week to take his livestock to market, yet was weatherproof and comfortable enough for him to take his wife to church on Sunday. Bandt designed a close-coupled, all-steel two-door body with a bed out back on a 1933 Ford chassis. He called it a coupe-utility. Aussies, never ones for long-winded formality, quickly christened it the ute.”

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And no, many Aussies don’t have pommie ancestors. Many 7th & 8th generation Australians ahve ancestors from different countries.

I’m pretty sure! :)

Of course James Alexander Holden was originally British!

All the first aussies were from england!

Sure they mightn’t be as technologiaclly advanced as some of the cars from overseas However it all relates to the size of the market and the number of countries that Ford and Holden export to.
Compared to Europe and the USA Australia is a much smaller market and therefore it takes longer for Holden and Ford to recover the costs of R&D – that goes into a new car which is why the liffe cycle of a car in Oz is on average 5-8 years whereas in Europe its closer to 2-4 years.

Up until 1931 they built many different bodies and fitted them to many different makes of chassis (inc. Ford).

Ford likewise, from 1925, built bodies and fitted them to chassis’ (for the same reason Holden did). To suggest that Ford only assemble CKD kits in australia until 1960 is wrong. Ford Aus had a body design department in the 1920’s.
Don’t forget that Ford Aus invented the UTE in 1034.

Both are US owned companies, both have unly ever produced complete vehicles under that US ownership, and both have a history in Australia that all Australians should be proud of, because in the main it has always been Australians doing it all, despite foriegn ownership and, at times, management.

The Cadillac Car Company was formed in 1905 from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company when Henry Ford departed [to start Ford]

Whilst the Cadillac automobile was named after the 17th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701.

Apparently the first Caddie was based on one of Henry Ford’s designs

Yes; Holden is now owned by GM. An American Company which in itself doesnt actually manufacture any cars that wear a GM badge but just happens to own a number of car manufacturing companies including Chevrolet and Holden

However; Speedo and Vegemite along with a number of other iconic Austrlaian products are also Foreign Owned but still referred to as Australian as that’s where they started.

Before that just as Holden built bodies which resembled cars from the USA which they fitted to the extra chassis which were imported as a result of Trade Restrictions imposed by the Federal Government after WW1. Ford Australia assembled cars most of which were imported in CKD form from Overseas.

my point is that throughout their history both Ford and Holden have hasd some assistance or input from the USA

Oh I agree totally on the annual sales being more important than individual months. The Monthly only winner was the BF, the rest were the last of several year blocks of full year sales tops.

Duck, it’s swings and roundaouts.
In fact Falcon has probably been the number one seller for more years than Commodore (being some 18yrs older nameplate).
The Falcon was no 1 from 1980 – 1986 and (I think) 1992-1996. Not sure on the intermediate years, probably 50/50.

The Commodore can retain sales for a longer period of time (every year not always every month!).

Holden never made their own car. The first complete car built to wear the Holden badge was by GM-H.

And you’re right about the “end of each of the last 13 years”.
Here’s an intersting, but useless fact: The last 3 Falcons to top the sales xF, eF, bF (month only). What chance the Fg is next?