Ford the next Aussie car maker to go

[Turbo]

Any car company that produces cars that have high fuel consumption (to be honest anything over 10L per 100km) now is living in the past.

Ford's number 1 car is the Falcon that does over 10L per 100kms (prob more like 11 or 12 combined).

There are so many other options now that are more fuel efficient and have similar performance.

Think whats contributed to the downward spiral of aussie built family cars are people are now buying SUV's in record numbers, and they mostly use more than 10L/100km. Just for your info too, these cars use roughly 13-15L/100km in urban traffic but when balanced out for rural driving (7-8L/100km) they get an average figure around the 10L/100km mark. I know Holden are working on every aspect of the commodore to reduce that to under 10L/100km, things like aerodynamic drag & engine improvements.

Yeah we bought an suv for my wife and it's great. It averages about 8-8.5 combined fuel and has about 400nm of tourque.

... and a turbo?

Yes funnily enough it is turbo diesel

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Yes, our cost of living is high.
Compared to nations that get by on wages of $2 an hour or less.
Free trade will kill Australia.
"NO IMPORTED GOODS" is the only way to go.
Australia must wake up.
One day we will all have to live in corrigated iron shanty towns.
Fighting for survival.

Better give back most of what you have in your house then ... because if Australia had the trade barrier walls up then either you wouldn't have been able to buy those things or they would have cost too much.
101 stuff really ...

True..
Back in 1975 I bought a colour TV set made in Australia - a Rank Arena 14".
It cost me $450 - about $4500 in today's money I'd estimate.

That would have been top of the range (or the best technology) as far as TVs goes at the time, however? When the widescreen plasmas or even the HDTVs came out, they would have been that much?