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View Poll Results: Would the "Pursuit" and "Super Pursuit" be better suited for sedans?
Super Pursuit for Sedans only 4 7.14%
Pursuit for Sedans only 4 7.14%
Both for Sedans 14 25.00%
None - It's fine the way it is 40 71.43%
I think FPV need totally new names for their lineup 8 14.29%
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Old 10-01-2007, 04:12 PM   #1
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Default Would the "Pursuit" and "Super Pursuit" be better suited for sedans?

As the title suggests, do you think the Model Pursuit and Super Pursuit should have been (or would be better suited) for the sedans and not the utes?

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Old 10-01-2007, 04:36 PM   #2
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The names Pursuit and Super Pursuit are the way the are, because the names date back to the late mid 1960's with Ford Utes

From a very scetchy memory, i think the XM and XP and pursuit utes.

So i'm afraid FPV really had no choice in giving those names to the Utes, and i reckon that it's a good thing too

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The names Pursuit and Super Pursuit are the way the are, because the names date back to the late mid 1960's with Ford Utes

From a very scetchy memory, i think the XM and XP and pursuit utes.

So i'm afraid FPV really had no choice in giving those names to the Utes, and i reckon that it's a good thing too

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It isn't about "Whats in a name"... it's just what would be better... regardless of history...
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Old 10-01-2007, 04:41 PM   #4
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The names Pursuit and Super Pursuit are the way the are, because the names date back to the late mid 1960's with Ford Utes

From a very scetchy memory, i think the XM and XP and pursuit utes.

So i'm afraid FPV really had no choice in giving those names to the Utes, and i reckon that it's a good thing too

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Actually the original Pursuit & Super Pursuit were 6 cylinder sedans 170s & 221s from memory.

The name was reused with the AU utes and since then has been the high end ute nomenclature.
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Old 10-01-2007, 06:16 PM   #5
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The Pursuit name to me makes me instantly think of a police pursuit car which are sedans, so to me the name would have better suited a sedan.

Flappist, while trying not to be a picky ******, "SuperPursuit" was the name badge on early falcons (up to XR) with the 200ci 6 cyl and "Pursuit 170" to the 170ci 6 cyl of the era. The later 221's in the XT were badged 3.6 litre not as Pursuit's.
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Old 10-01-2007, 06:40 PM   #6
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purs-ute cmon :
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Old 10-01-2007, 10:24 PM   #7
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Who the hell really cares..Flappist had it someone else corrected it....so who the hell really cares.
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The Pursuit name to me makes me instantly think of a police pursuit car which are sedans, so to me the name would have better suited a sedan.
agreed, and in mad max the squad cars were called "pursuit specials"....imagine that colour scheme on a modern falcon :evil3:
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Old 11-01-2007, 01:01 PM   #9
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i always thought the pursuit badge was referine to the engine not the type of vehcile but could be wronge
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Old 11-01-2007, 01:06 PM   #10
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i always thought the pursuit badge was referine to the engine not the type of vehcile but could be wronge
Thats what I thought. From XM onwards in the 1960's.
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i think the reason they use pursuit for the utes cause they don't fit under the gt badge so pursuit is a gt spec ute
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Old 11-01-2007, 03:24 PM   #12
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Pursuit dont rhyme with sedan, as well as what HLC said.
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