Loony dumps on XR's in news paper

[EL_futuraistic]

There is far too many old people, with nothing better to do than complain to news papers and talkback radio. Anyone who enjoys driving, owns a nice car or even anyone associated with "modified" cars are rapidly becomming worse than drug dealers. But on the point of this thread I dont think its the NA XR6 or even the XR6T or XR8's they should worry about, its the 15yr old imports that scare me. Most of the kids driving them have no insurance, and the cars themselves have no modern safety features other than Seat Belts, some of which are retro fitted for ADR. Whats more if he was referring to xr6's in general, a 95 EF XR6 would be far safer than a 1989 nissan silvia.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by dansedgli

The XR6 is not a death machine. Chuck Norris is a death machine.

LMAO Chuck Norris destroys death machines with round house kicks.

[ltd]

Originally Posted by Malakai

Yeah they have put wings on an XR6 and it's going to be the Dark Side's new super weapon in the 7th star wars episode, it can fly around the universe eating small children and wiping out entire civilisations... Death Machine!...

Actually that would make a good model name for the next turbo car from Ford - XR6T - Typhoon - Death Machine.

Yep oxygen theif for sure.

Can you type the original article out and post it here with your reply too?

Good call. If we plated it for the year 2000, we could call it the Mellinium Falcon.

Re the imports, I have to whole heartedly agree. They are scary and the tools who drive them tend to think they are invincable. I've lost count of the number of accidents I see with a particular ethnicity in a riced up import. And it is true about the insurance too, typically because insurance companies don't like insuring them and therefore charge huge premiums for them. That's why we have an increasing incidence of intimidation at accident sites where there are carloads of said ethnicity turning up to put the onus on the driver not at fault. Surprisingly, this is very common.

[Psycho Chicken]

Well if the XR6 is a death machine what is the XR8?

Hey Dubya, we might have something you've been looking for.

[HLC]

Originally Posted by lisa76

You have to wonder where some people get their ideas from. A regular XR6 is no more powerful than my futura wagon, and I know I feel a whole lot safer in my large 6 than I would in a small 2 or 4 if I were to be in a collision. Even looking at something like the NRMA's open road, the used car guide gives safety ratings - the BA gets the highest rating of 5, whilst things like Hyundai's get a 1, the '02 and '03 Corolla gets a 3, Lancer's get a 3 and so the list goes on.

I know my car has the necessary equipment and power to get me out of trouble if need be, and my kids will be driving a larger car when the time comes too.

quoted for truth. i agree 100%

[merlin]

Originally Posted by Psycho Chicken

Well if the XR6 is a death machine what is the XR8?

A great sounding death machine?

[reid]

its extremely unfair to single out the xr6 as a "death machine" and for starters the money that an xr6 costs should rule out any young people owning them unless there rich parents buy it for them. im 18 years old and i know i havnt got the money for an xr6. the cars that are most dangerous are these little jap pieces of garbage with there rediculose mods that they have to do to them to get them going. and the problem is that these little jap cars fall rite into place as far as cost goes for a young person to buy one.

[superpursuit83]

I thought all cars were death machines. They are all capable of killing you, we all do 60km/hr and come within 3 metres of cars doing 60km/hr the other way.

Idiots, best to write back I say or the majority starts to believe. Here in WA we should be writing in re safety devices they call radar detectors, or we are going to lose them too. Already mentioned here why we have not got any phase 4's across the country.

John

[Rapid260]

What a wally,

Hope i never see him while i'm driving my "death machine"

[DJM83]

Does anyone have the article that was in the paper and yes it would be interesting to read your reply
FOR SALE 2000 AUII XR6 "Death Machine" so far accountable for 15 deaths
if i had of known my XR could have killed me i wouldnt have bought it why isnt it in the owners manual god damnit

[flappist]

His plan was to burr up a lot of people so that they would read his crap....

Do ya think it worked?........

Leave it alone and it will go away, keep pushing and he will push back just to burr you up more nad the all of a sudden some NNNNNN in the government will take notice and do some stupid knee jerk reaction because it must be a proble it was in 28 successive days of the newpaper......

The writer probably does not even know what a XR6 is. He probably saw one pared in the street near his office and thought "That car looks fast, it must be a hoon one and I should wirte about it".

I repeat, BACK OFF YOU WILL NEVER WIN with logic and sense, he doesn't care about anything except selling papers

[Blue Oval Mopar Man]

Originally Posted by ltd

He's probably a fudge packer who only likes little cars like the daihatsu copen, and feels intimidated by anything bigger than that. Not only that, but it was probably an xr6 that he bashed his head on when he was arrested for inappropriate behaviour (read george michael) in a public toilet. Total idiot.

I think I know this fudge packer and the likes of him given the chance will cause another supercar scare if we are not carefull! Its for this reason that I cheered the day Even Green the journalist ( and I use the term lightly) died ! If it werent for his sensationalistic hysterical description of the up comeing models from the big 3 , Ford, Chrysler and molden in 1973, then our motoring heritage would have been an entirely different past !




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[AnthonyQLD]

Originally Posted by merlin

A great sounding death machine?

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[crustyman]

I can't wait till I too can own a "Death Machine"

[chief]

The XR6 has got to be the safest death machine I know of. The guiliteen is not that safe.

[UNR8D]

^^ sorry direct comments to me about that last post, i was loged in under ROLLIN... my bad.

[jcxr]

Evan Green is alive and well ,living at Gracelands whilst Elvis is working at Maccas. This guy crucified the supercars of the 70s

[red_hotxr6]

Even if we dont say anything a lot of people are still going to buy the papers tomorrow and they make money. I am so lucky to own a death machine. :

[Danny]

God, I better go and Destroy our stock as a rock 182 kW 8 second 0-100 death machine XR6 then. I can't have Mum doing Groceries in one of those!

[irsa76]

Originally Posted by jcxr

Evan Green is alive and well ,living at Gracelands whilst Elvis is working at Maccas. This guy crucified the supercars of the 70s

No he didn't. What he did do was merely write an opinion that it was getting a little too easy to purchase cars that had performance, as in speed, well beyond the brakeing and roadholding ability of the car not to mention the driving ability, and attitude, of the general public on roads which are no where near as good as they are today. Remember this was when there were no real open road speed limits, and real enforcement anyway, it was considered OK to have a few beers then drive and seatbelts useage still wasn't that high. Not to mention that radial ply tyres were still rare and expensive. When you actually sit back and read his comments and then look at them takeing into account time period, then you can understand his point. The problem was, and he stated this so many times, the editor of the paper happened to need a attention getting story on a slow news day so figured that this would do. Had some one been shot that day then chances are the article would have been buried in the back of the paper leaveing it to be debated over a few beers at the pub before you race home in you XY 351 4 speed Falcon 500 with dodgy brakes, soggy suspension and skinny 14" crossplies. Every interview I've seen from him he states that while he regrets the uproar, he still stands by the article despite copping massive flak from everyone over it.

[repsol]

Can some one post the article for us West M embers to view

[OLDFORDNUT]

unfortuneatly this sort of rubbish is used by the media for a fill in story and do gooders do take notice causing the government to react as it always does to minority groups,
they listen to them thinking they represent the mainstream of society.
scary but proven true on many occasions.

[niko]

its an Xt with sports intirior and a body kit lmao

[opto]

I don't know about other states but more High Performance Commonwhores are involved with accidents in SA than XR series Falcons,even if you bring it back to Falcons and Commonwhores The ratio is higher for accident involvement with Commonwhores.

If it comes to brakes and handling, keep your car in top order peferably with the best brakes, suspension and tyres and this dicknose journalist can eat shlit.

[gmhdriver]

Originally Posted by opto

I don't know about other states but more High Performance Commonwhores are involved with accidents in SA than XR series Falcons,even if you bring it back to Falcons and Commonwhores The ratio is higher for accident involvement with Commonwhores.

Could that be because there is a higher ratio of Commodores on the road? Especially in SA.

[repsol]

Where i work in perth we have a commodore wreckers yard next door i am amazed at how many crashed commodores go through there everyday, there always seems to be a truck with a crashed commodore on the back parked there, they strip it and send the shell over the road to the scrap metal yard :MrT_anim:










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[wulos]

Originally Posted by marcosambrose

What a tool, a Daihatsu Charade is more dangerous than an XR6, both cars can go 110kmh in a 50 zone, but the chance of making around the next corner in the XR6 are much higher than in the Charade.

Stupid journalist, if you dont know what your talking about, dont opwn your ИИИИИИИИИ mouth.

Journalist????? It was a letter to the editor unless I read the first post incorrectly.

[brendan24688]

Were abouts in the paper is it?? What page

[red_hotxr6]

I cant see it either.

[Rapid260]

Originally Posted by wulos

Journalist????? It was a letter to the editor unless I read the first post incorrectly.

your right, it is a letter to the editor, so in that case it is just another ford hater out there having a cry because he/she cant afford a "DEATH MACHINE".

Kev