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Old 24-10-2005, 06:28 PM   #1
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Arrow Live Chat-Win a Car!!

Ninemsn are having a live chat with Ford Engineers about the BF at 8.30pmAEST if anyones interested :
http://community.ninemsn.com.au/chat.../chatroom.aspx


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Old 24-10-2005, 07:06 PM   #2
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Web chat exclusive with Fords leading engineers
Chat live with Fords leading engineers who developed the new BF Falcon on:
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Monday October 31, 2005, 8:30pm–9:30pm (EST)
Monday November 14, 2005, 8:30pm–9:30pm (EST)
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Old 24-10-2005, 08:32 PM   #3
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in there now
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Old 24-10-2005, 08:43 PM   #4
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Awesome Grechie , this is exciting!!!
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Old 24-10-2005, 08:43 PM   #5
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Thanks for the tip off, should be good.
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Old 24-10-2005, 09:29 PM   #6
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biggest. joke. ever.
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Old 24-10-2005, 09:32 PM   #7
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biggest. joke. ever.

there just typing brochure's
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Old 24-10-2005, 09:38 PM   #8
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They aren't from engineering, they are from marketing.
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Old 24-10-2005, 09:41 PM   #9
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Nope, gotta be the work experience kid.

I want my 30 minutes back.
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Old 24-10-2005, 09:45 PM   #10
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systematically avoided all the hard questions
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Old 24-10-2005, 09:46 PM   #11
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Yeah, they can pay for my hospital bills; cause like I can hardly type.....my fingures/hands feel like i'm a cripple an that isn't nice..... wasted my time of asking 'em questions for 30 minutes and not one got answered....oh well. =(
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systematically avoided all the hard questions
I'll say, no mention of the Cleveland powered BF GTHO, wouldn't tell me what features the BF had over my 3.3 XD GL, nothing on the XF ESP, very disapointing really.
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Old 24-10-2005, 09:55 PM   #13
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sorry but : was that?!
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I am not entirely sure.......
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Old 24-10-2005, 09:58 PM   #15
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ford fans could share more knowledge amongst themselves on forums like these than those supposed "engineers" could impart
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Old 24-10-2005, 10:00 PM   #16
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well that was fun..
Does fordforums.com.au have a chat room?
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Old 24-10-2005, 10:01 PM   #17
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systematically avoided all the hard questions
I recon eay. I submitted a few good ones yet didnt even get a reply.

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Old 24-10-2005, 10:02 PM   #18
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well that was fun..
Does fordforums.com.au have a chat room?
see here:
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Old 24-10-2005, 10:02 PM   #19
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Evening guys and gals,

Andrew from Ford PR here. For those doubters, believe me when I say I'm in the room with the vice president of product development, the chief programme engineer for the BF/SY programmes, the head of vehicle dynamics, the powertrain development manager. the engine design guru and the programme manager.
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Old 24-10-2005, 10:05 PM   #20
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Did you guys gain anything from that session ??

Good of you guys to be up at 8.30 to 9.30 at night after work.

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Old 24-10-2005, 10:08 PM   #21
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biggest. joke. ever.
Here, here... Avoided all hard questions and hedged around anything else...

But the session did show me why they cant make a decent decision... _
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I reckon I asked 10 questions, a few simple ones and the rest were real concerns that are being posted in the Territory forums.
Wasted my time.

the only questions they wanted to answer was; How big is the fuel tank? :
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Old 24-10-2005, 10:09 PM   #23
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Oh well, sounds like i didnt miss out on to much, i was in there at the start, but then we got a giant storm so thought id better get off, then overheard the add on tv lol.
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Old 24-10-2005, 10:11 PM   #24
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Guys, the questions were fed through to us via a moderator from the 9MSN head office in Sydney to us here in Melbourne on a first come-first served basis, and we answered every question that came through to us. As we said, we'll be back next week, same bat time, same bat channel for more questions.
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Old 24-10-2005, 10:12 PM   #25
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Yeh i know im going soon

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR043.shtml newcastle 256km
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR503.shtml Brisbane 256k

But yeh guys if your reading this. How about giving us some real feedback next time and answer some of the questions !!! (if they dont effect new products)

I do agree there was some rubbish posted but overal there were genuine questions asked.
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Old 24-10-2005, 10:13 PM   #26
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Apparently the V8 falcon was released in 2002. My guess is they were 8 y/o indian kids chained up in a mud hut reading brochures.
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They're back on next week, what about if everyone from FF ask the same question over & over again, maybe we can cause a melt down. :sm_headba



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thats IRC chat is too complicated.. isn't there one where you can jsut click a link and talk? if not there should be!
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Guys, the questions were fed through to us via a moderator from the 9MSN head office in Sydney to us here in Melbourne on a first come-first served basis, and we answered every question that came through to us. As we said, we'll be back next week, same bat time, same bat channel for more questions.
Well can you ask them to include questions that are more technical?


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Guys, we're getting a full transcript of the session tomorrow, which will include the questions we didn't get to answer, and do our best to answer them in next week's session.
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