optioned with Atomic green, hard tonneau, sat-nav, reverse parking sensors…
:D :D :D :D

still 4 – 6 weeks before pickup though..

It was a good title for FORD in Australia to have the fastest 4 door in the world but I doubt even Rod Barret is going to be able to give that to us again! Not unless hes planning on getting the engine out of the Super Snake for us……..wouldn’t that make a great shopping trolley!

i think you will get one bike in with the gate up from memory but thats if you put it on an angle. i think its not a correct photo

I’d say ford lead for a while after the introduction of the BA series. it took holden quite a while to respond to it. they put the gen111 on premium to get another 5kw but it still left it beaten by the XR Turbo. the clubbie for a while only had the same power as the XR8 and before VE the Holdens couldnt match handling or drive train of the fords.

holden is shining in the sun right now and they must make hay before the orion comes out to re-establish itself at the top again. the orion will reign supreme again but the big question is how long will it take holden to respond??? im sure they will be a little quicker this time.

For example if I was to design/build an Ozi “Mongrel”..

If it was a ute: the front would be Holden with those flares but have a sepperate tray similar to the Falcon but with flared guards like the HRT Maloo and the doors would be off the Raptor Concept to add impact.

If it was a sedan: Again the front would look like the commodore but the rear would be more like the Falcon [it looks better]. Headlights would be off of the TT-36 Torana and LED taillights.

I’d then take the Holden V8 Engine [optional supercharger] match it up to a ZF 6 Speed auto out of a Falcon – or the Sequential box from next years V8 Supercars].

Add either the Linear Suspension from the Holden or the Blade IRS from the Ford [yet HSVs MRC would be nice]
Power Steering from the Commodore and Brembo Brakes from FPV.

The Bodykit would be off an HRT car Seats from a Clubbie but the dash from the GT and the In Car Entertainment System would have to be the BOSE unit from the new Statesman/Caprice.

Yet as a result a power war ensued betwen ford and Holden Then a photo of a GT doing close to 180Km/h on a public road [on the front page of a sydney paper] started the “super car scare” as a result cars such as the XA GT Phase 4 the HQ-X; Hurricane and the Charger were all axed

iI was roughly 10 years until Peter Brock established
HDT and built the next generation of Aussie Performance Cars.
Then in 87 HSV took over [after the split betwenn GMH and Brock] and since have really been the leaders in this area in terms of creating the best performance cars of the modern era.

I say this Because [since the scare] Ford weren’t really interested in V8s; performance cars or motorsport until the early 90s – just after the GT-R era; when the rules changed back to V8s.
until just recently they didn’t have what you could call a “factory team” whilst Holden have had HDT > HRT

And Tickford > FPV wasn’t established as a factory backed performance division until the EB-GT Falcon back in 92 [after the GT-R era]

So when you mention the term “Aussie Performance Car”
to most people over say 40 the GT is probably the first car that comes to mind Yet to the younger generation it would more likely be either [an] HDT or HSV car

Ford may have created the Aussie Performance car but its Holden who have enhanced and developed it since then

However; I’d say if the journos were to chose which they liked more out of the FPV starter button and BMWs [complex]I-drive.. Then they’d most likely pick the FPV Starter button

I personally like the Starte Button it gives it that Sporty feel which afterall a “real” performance car should have

What they could/should do is use one of the prototypes or mules which were used for development/testing as they’re more likely to have done 100s of ks so the engines etc should all be working at or closer to the optimum level.

Too right!… The New Cobra is not ment to take on the VE HSV, that’s the Orion’s job.

“even though Ford had done alot with the BF in tems of performance and handling they still have a way to go to beat the VE.”

They making it seem like the new Cobra’s 302kw engine was their last resort to take on a 307kw HSV and FPV failed to beat it, it’s not ment too, just the numbers prove it. As we all should know, 302 was to match the old Ford 302 CuIn V8s that the XC Cobras had (also 351 Cleveland V8s too). It’s the Orion that should be the one to compare with HSV. Not the Cobra.