Wedgie wrote:Sojourner wrote:westozfalcon wrote:I've always liked the XD.
When nicely done up with lowered suspension and wide alloy wheels they still look superb.
They looked very tough on the racetrack in the ole Australian Touring Car Championship days too i.e Dicky Johnson's blue one for example.
What many people do not know about the XD Falcon is that it is actually based on the Ford Granada of the same size in the U.K and their was much discussion about the Granada actually being used in place of the "New" Falcon. Although a slight difference in look, the front gaurds and various other parts bolt on and off the Granada and the XD!
I was aware of that was we had a family friend come out from the UK and I took him for a drive in my XD and he couldn't believe the power of the 4.1l 6 cylinder car, he said his car in the UK looked exactly the same but had a 2 litre 4 cylinder in it!
I loved my XD, the fats, the big black grill, so much more room than the Commodores of the time which were tiny in comparison. I was a Holden man and 20 years old and shopping for the first car I was going to pay for with my own money, the Commodores were awful, even though I loved Brocky and Holden I just couldn't bring myself to buy one as I could hardly fit in one and they weren't comfortable, as soon as I saw the yellow XD with spottys and fats (and the room and comfort) I was sold. Only downside, as mentioned before, bloody door handles, I also spent a small fortune on the suspension.
And one other slight downside to the XD was the fact that the boot was too shallow. You couldn't even fit a family size esky in it - an absolute no-no in an Aussie car!
Ford rectified this problem in the subsequent XE model and made the boot deeper.
Still for mine the XD looked better than the XE.
