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First of all, I have never purchased a Ford. I've purchased 1 car in my life and it's a Mazda 6.

Now to my point. Opinions are like...

How many people here that are saying FoA need an export program (Dick included) have actually seen or put together a business case for exporting the Falcon?

I'd has it a guess none of us have. Therefore none of us can say with any certainty that an export program would in fact save Falcon. In the case of Holden and Pontiac, it LOST them $200m. Imagine FoA losing $200 million on top of the $290million they lost last year. When was the last time a 1/2 billion dollar loss saved any business?

My bet is that in the years to come, when production at Broady does come to an end and Wheels rolls out a commemorative edition to say goodbye to the Falcon, we'll find out that in fact more than one business case was done and that if they had have gone with an export deal the factory would have been shuttered long before 2016 because of the ensuing losses.

Ford have been far more ruthless in cutting loss making plants than GM have. My bet is that they would have had less hesitation shutting down Broady having lost $200million than GM obviously was after Holden lost that much.

Of course, as with many of the comments so far, I have no evidence to back my theory up so take it with the proverbial grain of salt. In just the same way that we should take Dick's comments with a grain of salt, legend or not.