Death of 4wds ?

mind you - none of this surprising

I haven’t even thought of trading down to a smaller car or engine, F**K em I will make allowances in other places of my life, if it comes to that.

I would rather drive something I like and brings me enjoyment than trade down and drive some heap of chit econobox around.

Actually, on the news last night, 4wd sales were up.
Could be something to do with the mining boom, tho.
cheers, Gerry

I am reminded of Mark Twain who, when hearing that his obituary had been mistakenly, published by a US newspaper, commented:

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated"

Back at the time of the first fuel crisis in th e'70's when petrol jumped to a ridiculous 28c litre or so (can't remember the actual price) all the media and all the commentators agreed that the spelled the end of V8's and that in 5 years there would not be a single manufacturer offering them.

History shows a different picture.
Hell you can even get one in a Toy not to mention BMW, Benz, Range Rover, Discovery.

Point is the media love making predictions, it sells papers especially if it's gloom and doom.

Cant understand why holden has not offered a factory gas set up like the fords??? crazy, our company are all going to fords as on average 5o cents a litre and saving a fortune, untill 2011 that is when the excise will be lifted from the gas then it will be interesting to see what it jumps to, my mate just has his hiace van put on gas was a 3/4 week wait, must be getting popular. Regards Steve M

I agree with Gone Troppo. I remember a mate debating whether to buy a new diesel or petrol 40 Series back then. He settled for a petrol on the grounds that petrol would never go over 40cents. That was when GMH dropped the ‘Holden’ and downsized to Commodore for the fuel crisis, this didn’t go down too well, the full sized Falcon of the time was a better seller.
Since then it all settled down and Commodores grew up. V8s came back and Fourbys ruled the world. It would be a brave Australian car maker who moved away from decent sized powerful family cars after what happened last time.

It might become cheaper to buy a "non wreck" and use it for parts - especially given the cost of repairs these days.

The press (newspapers, TV etc.) will always seek a scapegoat to fill out their "news".

Get a grip guys and gals, the 4WD will never disappear.....it won't, for all the reasons that the press believe it WILL!!!

What we need to be more concernad about is the pressure on 4WD tracks around the country which are being closed for a whole lot of ridiculous reasons...

Cheers
Red

Hi all, Ford have access to a ripper v6 diesel out of the Disco3 and Jag vehicles [both brands that Ford own] 140kw / 445nm this engine has been mentioned for fitment in Territory and would go very well in Falcon.
Regards Ken.

Title of the thread should read "Death of Mums Taxi"

and we should all be cheering as loud as we can...................