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But might also have something to do with Ford owning Jaguar/Land Rover at the time and tapping into that big buying power to get the ZF's at a reasonably cheap rate? I reckon that would have had something to do with it for sure. It probably would have been the superior trans. |
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We were talking about modifying a Kia Picanto and someone on AFF has literally done this
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Yep, only cost me $200 for a secondhand VC Poweron Box and still gets 4.8L/ 100 on 98!
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![]() The ST and I20N are about the >$35K but will look at them once I can test drive a I20N if they even arrive next year!
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i20N does sound the goods:
https://www.carsales.com.au/editoria...review-126648/ Its priced about where the old WZ Fiesta ST is, ours was $33K DA with the Mountune performance package ticked. 5 doors sucks though, its listed as a positive with the current model Fiesta ST, I don't see that as a positive its a step back. |
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Why not go for a proven brand (that isn't going to disappear soon) that they use in jags, and have a 6spd to help improve fuel economy. ZFs 5 spds were very reliable (beaten by a couple of months by jatco as the first 5spd ever in 1990). BMW used them (mines in still going though it has a little wear after 320k kms of course). ZF was the first for a 6spd and the future looked great with them (recent 8spd is regarded as the best conventional auto in recent times.) Going ZF was a massive move by ford that got them heaps of praise at the time so I'm glad they did. |
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I bet he giggled like a girl typing it. |
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All this talk of factory AU turbo taxis... I'm getting all hot and bothered...
Somewhere, out there, in a chook shed...
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Stranger things have happened though. The EA GT351 was supposed to be crushed, but it was hidden somewhere out at the PG and “found” more than 10 yrs after it was supposedly scrap metal. |
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Sub $20K USD segment is disappearing in the USA. |
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You can still get a 5 speed manual if you look hard enough. There is a new 5 speed manual in Bris for $18490. And there is a heap of dsg Fabia s at under 20k. I think carsales.com have awarded best first car 4 years in a row. But good on Kia for putting a car out at that price. I would have the Kia over a Chinese MG3. |
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When i showed it to him he asked why i even bothered looking at the stuff he had as the Picanto GT Line at 18k was a far nicer thing than what he was selling and said he'd have made the same choice. The Fabia is as ugly as sin and the Swift a dime a dozen but the Picanto in GT trim is attention drawing and sales reflect this. |
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And is the Picanto GT Line still 18K. The Skoda would be the better drive! |
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Makes me nostalgic for the fiesta....
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Bent 8 my 2020 Skoda Fabia Wagon manual was $18890 drive away.
Space available per dollar spent exceeds Picanto. An observer Fiesta would have been high on my list providing right price and turbo and manual sadly no to so 3. |
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Eg, when FoMoCo Aust. decided to go IRS, the AU IRS was considered one of the best rear setups in a passenger car, when Ford was finally able to use the LPG system in the FG that was planned and delayed due to two supplier legal battles and should have been used in the B series it chose liquid vapour injection and when it went to an A6 it chose the best available (although Ford globally did licence a version as well which the diesel Territory had fitted). |
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![]() Yes the Ford setup was superior but it was also years later, then discontinued with BA onwards with the crappy control blade setup being used. Ford Australia's tombstone should say 'too little too late': |
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But that's right Ford Australia and marketing probably shouldn't be in the same sentence together ![]() If I think Ford Australia the first few thoughts that come to mind are 'cheap and nasty' and 'shoestring budget'. |
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Ive seen 2 reviews of the new yaris gr on australian youtube channels, and not ones where you would expect. So nugget garage and fullboost. Neither had anything bad to say. Apart from the obvious, it is small, and has a yaris badge, and its not cheap. But they appear to be quick with brakes and for once, a normal h pattern manual, not the cvt or dct like most of the hot hatches these days. If i was given one, id drive it.
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