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[Ford_The_Win]

Originally Posted by stevz

Nobody is denying that 4 cylinder cars have improved enormously, but larger 6 and 8 cylinder cars have also improved in the same way, so the gap between them remains the same.
I think the term 'buzzbox' remains perfectly relevant. Small 4 cylinder cars are gutless, torqueless, need to be revved, sound like a sewing machine and are soulless and appliance like. For somebody that enjoys driving I find them depressing.

Hey mate. While you were out, the 1970s called and left you a message, they want your sweeping generalisations and outdated perceptions about 4 cylinder cars back.

[XR Martin]

Fact is for a country with its auto industry, Australia has the lowest import duties of any Nation. Also the Aussie auto industry is one of the least subsidised in the World.

No wonder the locals cant compete.

[sbutler]

Originally Posted by stevz

Nobody is denying that 4 cylinder cars have improved enormously, but larger 6 and 8 cylinder cars have also improved in the same way, so the gap between them remains the same.
I think the term 'buzzbox' remains perfectly relevant. Small 4 cylinder cars are gutless, torqueless, need to be revved, sound like a sewing machine and are soulless and appliance like. For somebody that enjoys driving I find them depressing.



That's around $17 per week. I don't understand why anybody would make such a compromise with power, space, comfort and safety to save a paltry $17 per week.



That's the thing - Most sheep are blinded by perceptions and all the fancy features and don't realise that if you take all those features away, you are left with a fundamentally inferior vehicle. I would rather drive a bare bones Falcon XT than a fully optioned buzzbox, as I know the Falcon is fundamentally a far better vehicle, which is what matters most imo.

At last some sense being bought into what was a statment by me. How the Australian car indistry can stay alive is by the goverment stopping the [example only]
Cherry, now being sold on road for $12999 The Great Wall, Sannyong,
crapheaps etc etc on imported cars so at the very least, they will be compaired to Falcon & Holden pound for pound, & not just because they are cheap, a tarriff would help..

[sbutler]

Originally Posted by XR6 Martin

Fact is for a country with its auto industry, Australia has the lowest import duties of any Nation. Also the Aussie auto industry is one of the least subsidised in the World.

No wonder the locals cant compete.

100000000000000 % correct....