Comments on: V8 Shootout – Ford Falcon XR8 vs Holden Commodore SS

By: ajars

ajars — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:16:43 +0000

i cant believe the comment that that wan ka said bout GM car company, they employ a lot of people to build their cars and contract a lot of other companies to make parts, rims, tires etc… they hav made some stupid mistakes yes but from what i’ve seen so far is they hav learned from them!!! talk bout smart n dumb.. not hard to release a model with plenty of power to sound better with figures but the smart one wld buy a car that looks hot, handles best,and built a car that fits the V8 in it not havin to change bonnet with ugly bump in it and then hav that de tuned 6.0ltr re tuned to what it was designed to do…not hard!!!
p.s my vx 5.7 came out standard with 255kws but with laptop i can make it 265, 285 or even 300kws without havin to change parts in engine!!! so Go Holdens

By: Looking to buy

Looking to buy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:58:49 +0000

Hahaha…..Laughing my guts out! Thanks Lads (& Ladettes if any have contributed to this thread). Your contributions have kicked my day off with a chuckle. I came onto this site hoping to learn a little about the XR8 vs SS prior to purchasing my first new locally built V8 car, I’m delighted to see the age old Ford vs Holden battle is well and truely alive! Both cars are great in my opinion, however it would appear the Ford has performed better in a number of tests and observations (the latter being perhaps a touch “subjective”). Nonetheless I think the team at CA have done an excellent job and have certainly assisted me in my decision making (thanks).

By: Rough as Guts

Rough as Guts — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:42:03 +0000

AFM = waste of time and money for development, and a false economy improvement for customer in real terms.

By: Red

Red — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:36:00 +0000

I like the Ford Falcon F6 because it shits all over a Holden in straight out grunt

By: Frank Kay

Frank Kay — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:27:56 +0000

Nothing but web pages of time wasting hum-drum , all over the place , a typical school boy web site.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:33:45 +0000

Well, well, well it seems that the Holden myth is well and truly blown out of the water with these test results. I wonder how well Holden can market a detuned V8 to the public? I remember not too long ago that Holden was all about the numbers but now it seems that they are playing a different tune. It sounds like a little desperation to me. They’ve just lost a billion dollar contract in the US and their sales are not looking too good here, especially with their more economical vehicles. Astra replaced by Cruze, oh dear. What next? The commodore car company is looking a little shaky. Couldn’t happen to a nicer car company!

By: BMW3Series

BMW3Series — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:27:57 +0000

“Gee the FG Falcon was a real failure, terrible car.”

Matrix, I really don’t need to here your rubbish. I’ll take the facts thanks.

Simon, the way you go on not respecting the fact that people in this country have right to admire locally built cars by calling them “Bogans” only shows how you’re just one yourself. Who gives a shit about how old you are and what your occupation is, you still immature and desperately need to learn how to grow up and respect the kinds of vehicles that you just not a fan of.

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:47:37 +0000

I’ve been called worse Simon and couldn’t give a crap since when does your opinion matter to me as far as I know you could be a pubescent teen that discovered they could perform autofellatio and think your better than everyone because of it. What gets me is deadset idiots coming onto this site and trying to start trouble by calling anyone who likes Aussie built muscle cars a bunch of bogans, while adding nothing towards the conversation.

By: Frontman

Frontman — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:56:54 +0000

However Jeremy, Drive may have the better equipment, but the CA staff are far better and hide their personal favorites far better than Drivel and their love of anything team red!!! :p

As for the IQ rating, I reckon I’d struggle to get 50 points, but have hand built (not paid someone else to do it) enough rally cars and street legal drag cars, and been involved in the motor industry for over 20 years to know that if I see a thread I’m not going to like, “I DON”T READ IT!!!” Sorry but being dumb and chosing what I read rather than being smart and having to put comments on stuff I dont like sounds a hellava lot more intelligent to me

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:36:08 +0000

Jeremy: comparing caradvice to drive is a little unfair. Drive have a much bigger budget and this includes a dedicated media hosting service, which means they can have videos streaming at high speed off their host. Obviously caradvice don’t have anywhere near this sort of funding and as a result need to rely on other media hosts such as “bambuser”. For all we know their video is awesome quality, but once it gets re-encoded by bambuser is low quality.