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View Poll Results: Quick Poll: Do the VE Ute tail lights look like ED Tail lights?
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Old 03-11-2007, 09:34 PM   #1
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Default Quick Poll: Do the VE Ute tail lights look like ED Tail lights?

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Old 03-11-2007, 09:34 PM   #2
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Ummm.......

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Old 03-11-2007, 09:35 PM   #3
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nope too high and tight to be a EB light though there could be a resemblence.
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Old 03-11-2007, 09:36 PM   #4
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It's a slow night...:baby bott ... Don't you hate it when you can't find a smily to represent how you feel..... lol
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Old 03-11-2007, 09:57 PM   #5
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My first thought was they looked like SAAB tail lights off the aero

EDIT; just had a look at the saab's..... dont know what i was thinking nothing alike :
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Old 03-11-2007, 10:00 PM   #6
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Old 03-11-2007, 10:03 PM   #7
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They do look alike .......kinda
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Old 04-11-2007, 01:13 AM   #8
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The VE Maloo tail treatment looks a lot more convincing in the metal than in photos.
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Old 04-11-2007, 09:25 AM   #9
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It looks like a heavy car. Could u see anything out that back window?
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Old 04-11-2007, 12:14 PM   #10
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Don't bring the ED down to that level. The VE utes actually have more similarity to Territory taillights if anything.
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Old 04-11-2007, 12:20 PM   #11
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Don't bring the ED down to that level. The VE utes actually have more similarity to Territory taillights if anything.
Yes, there Territiory clones, rather tha EB~
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Old 04-11-2007, 04:03 PM   #12
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Gee, VE ute has BA style headlights and Territory tail lights, you'd think a new model would be a step forward in deisign!
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Old 04-11-2007, 04:08 PM   #13
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What ever they look like, I'm not a fan. And I'm not saying that because its a holden, I've owned a few holdens and would own another brands don't phase me. But I wouldn't by a VE ute
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Old 04-11-2007, 04:08 PM   #14
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im on and off with VE's.. the lights are slowly growing on me tho

BUT the VE ute is the by FAR the best looking ute ever made, by a mile
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Old 04-11-2007, 06:04 PM   #15
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It looks like a heavy car. Could u see anything out that back window?

The lumps in the tray lid most likely lol!
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Old 04-11-2007, 09:29 PM   #16
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Hell no.

VR/S lights look more like EF/EL lights (or vice versa) than what you're suggesting.
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Old 04-11-2007, 10:24 PM   #17
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errrrrrrr......NO
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Old 04-11-2007, 10:39 PM   #18
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in a way i guess they do, it might of help if someone posted a pic an ED rear end...
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Old 05-11-2007, 07:35 AM   #19
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"Borrowing" design features is OK .. Ford Australia used 70's Dodge Charger hood bulge on the BA+ XR8s ..



.. too bad they did introduce the "air-grabber" too?
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Old 06-11-2007, 02:02 AM   #20
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I think they look a bit more VN'ish
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Old 06-11-2007, 04:06 PM   #21
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I cant see enough similaritys that would have made me even consider that they look anything like ed lights,very strange thread/question.
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Old 07-11-2007, 01:36 AM   #22
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yeahhhhh.......... NAH
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Old 07-11-2007, 02:07 AM   #23
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I wouldn't call them ED tail lights.... but i saw it in the flesh at the Sydney Motor Show, and it looked even more uglier than the photo here!
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here's a thought, it is unique
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Old 08-11-2007, 10:37 AM   #25
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here's a thought, it is unique
Thats a nice way of putting it.

I saw my first VE ute "in the flesh" yesterday. Im sorry but its horrid. It just looks like its been punched in the head from every angle; almost like its got chubby cheeks. BF's look waaay better.
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Old 08-11-2007, 11:51 AM   #26
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im on and off with VE's.. the lights are slowly growing on me tho

BUT the VE ute is the by FAR the best looking ute ever made, by a mile
Pleease,

XY or XB 351 GS ute FTW! :


/Back on topic,no resemblance at all imo.
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Old 08-11-2007, 08:20 PM   #27
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Wheres the "who gives a toss" option?
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