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another in a long line of historical trivea relating to cars. over the last 40 odd years, what models were known for 'unfortunate' stying errors or bad design or manufacturing. eg of the top of my head. (as its a ford forum and lots has been posted about EA and AU....lets give them a break)
Edsel (stying) corvair (rear suspension) HD holden - front and rear styling HQ kingswood - handling orig falcon - front suspension failure Camira - smoky engines sigma - smoky engines magna - auto gearboxes VX commodore with 5.7chev (oil consumption) VL 3.0 (headgaskets) rotary Mazdas (seals failing) this is a specialty for mechanics ou there who made a fortune on some of these cars...
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Ego BFII Ghia Titanium Silver E53 X5 4.4i Gunmetal EF XR6. Now retired from active duty. Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you. |
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anything ssangyoung BUT UGLY
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90s Mazda 626 - auto boxes
N12 Pulsar - manual gearboxes
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2005 LS Focus LX
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Nissan 300ZX:
- stupid temp guage (Either cold, normal or overheating, nothing in between.) - Bastard to work on, to do anything is a real pain in the neck. Normal mechanic won't touch them. Any work costs LOTS of $$ in labor. - Reliability issues.
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Paul Gover and Graham Smith are determined to add the Territory to that list, since Ford sorted out a brake recall, they are getting stuck into the ball joints........
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apex seals lol
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How can anyoned forget the immortal Datsun 120Y the greatest pile of dung ever made.
Anything with an alloy head anyone cracked a cast iron head? |
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Ego BFII Ghia Titanium Silver E53 X5 4.4i Gunmetal EF XR6. Now retired from active duty. Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you. |
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VT - VXS1 rubbish IRS.....oh wait that's in general.
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Daily: AU1 Fairmont Ghia - 380,000 km (still going strong)
Weekender: 2009 G6ETurbo - 21,656 km - Seduce/Cashmere (The only shopping list I need: 4 Litres and a hairdryer) Daily: SZII - 56,000 km - converted to Tezza |
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A dozen posts and no mention of the P76!
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The P76 lol!!, Also i dont think ssyangyong believes in style!!
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Or from our side of the road:
XC Falcon, gutless petrol eating monster. TE Cortina 4.1, dangerous overpowered underhandling underbraking petrol eating monster. EA Falcon, gutless gasket eating monster. AU How many synonyms can you think of for the word UGLY BA1 GT/GT-P/Pursuit (early builds) oil eating, rattly gearbox, clunky diff, relatively slow BA2 F6 Typhoon, (early build) gutless and clutch failure. I have owned a new one of all of the above so this is personal observation not third hand anecdotes |
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Ford Pinto??
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3.0 blow me up turbo diesel nissan patrol
same car with 5th gear falling out of the gearbox
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BA brake and diff issues.
VL headgasket oh and BA handbrake.
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VN V6 Commodores - very harsh driveline vibrations
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Datsun 120Y Coupe - Styling colours, performance, braking, handling..... only redeeming features was the ran on the smell of an oily rag and unfortunately were hard to kill.
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Daily: AU1 Fairmont Ghia - 380,000 km (still going strong)
Weekender: 2009 G6ETurbo - 21,656 km - Seduce/Cashmere (The only shopping list I need: 4 Litres and a hairdryer) Daily: SZII - 56,000 km - converted to Tezza |
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Also the Charcol canister in AU V8's that produce the Tickford tick ![]()
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What about magna,triton,sigma any thing with the astron engine?
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XA-C coupe had a bit of a rust problem..
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Daily: AU1 Fairmont Ghia - 380,000 km (still going strong)
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also the shocking lapse in time between shifts on BA's between P-R, R-N, N-R. or maybe its just mine
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Of course there will be those that bag the AU. Apart from the Series 1 Forte and Futura .... they were/are a great car that are just so hard to kill and have stood the test of time in the looks department. Camira goes down as the all time crapper. | [/url] |
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Early Kia Carnavals engines
EF head bolts BA GT & Turbo diff whines between 80Kms & 100 Kms XF door handles Early Holden Diffs blow up easy HK to HQ front chassic cracks VE commodore Consul falling apart VT Ser.1 commodore windscreens cracking around the edges from chassic movment Commadore front harmonic pully rubber breaking up (sounds like engine Knocking)
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