The AU corner

[EFFalcon]

Falling asleep at work so I took a photo of the ''AU corner of the carpark'', went on boostedfalcon as you do. One way to kill the rest of the afternoon!


Regards
Dean

Met the owner of the Red one last night.
Sounds like a damn nice car too.

[SnyperEB]

My old daily.
I'm a big fan of the AU series.

[KR1STO]

Gotta love the AU interior...

[superhuS!]

yours doesn't count dude.

[KR1STO]

Why not..?

[nstg8a]

its not an au...

edit: au's shall forever be deemed ugly because of series one stupidity such as this

[Bipolar]

Last time I checked AU was the designation for all Falcon variants, standard and LWB.

Unless that's a pic of something else. Damn work filters.

[TUFED6]

edit: au's shall forever be deemed ugly because of series one stupidity such as this

Lets not forget the outside either-



Reminds me of-

[ClassicAU]

Just because it's the best posible combination of an AU interior, it's still an AU! Testament to how awesome the interior is on these! But as mentioned, forever marred by the disappointing series 1.

[nstg8a]

i thought the lwb's were designated nu?

[KR1STO]

nope..
They are an AU..
NU was carried on by a lot of people, as a habit, from NC NF etc...

AU LWB's are just that.. AU..

[nstg8a]

nope..
They are an AU..
NU was carried on by a lot of people, as a habit, from NC NF etc...

AU LWB's are just that.. AU..

learn something new everyday lol. is a mint interior, wanna swap my awesome rare forte trim?

[KR1STO]

Haha....!
If you were closer mate I'd love too....

[superhuS!]

yours doesn't count because I fucking said so.

[oneredED]

Lulz, tampon required over here.

[Sterling]

haha^ that is a stunning car kristo, saw it on aff too, well done mate

[justa6]

edit: au's shall forever be deemed ugly because of series one stupidity such as this

Lets not forget the outside either-



this reminds me of when homer designed and built a car at his brothers factory. looks like it came from outa fucking space. it still amaze's me how ford, with so many design people, working on a new car for years came up with that. there must of been a point when they thought "what have we done, surely it's not to late to change things".

i've actually thought holden must of got some people in there some how, just to **** it up.

[misk]

lol ****, does look pretty funny sitting on its own!

[Nikk O'lass]

this reminds me of when homer designed and built a car at his brothers factory. looks like it came from outa fucking space. it still amaze's me how ford, with so many design people, working on a new car for years came up with that. there must of been a point when they thought "what have we done, surely it's not to late to change things".

No, thats the VEIII HSV's

[TUFED6]

I dont think the AU is all Ford Australias fault, Ford have these global design themes and I guess Ford AU are required to adopt some of the styling queues that are given to them by Ford US.

If you look at an AU and a Taurus you can see some of the same styling.

Even now if you look at the new Territory front and some of the current US Ford models they have similarities.

[Sterling]

yeah thats true ^ ...when you look at an au like the one above, every part that people find ugly, exaggerate that and you have a ford taurus...my nan has one...definately looks like an aborted fetus with wheels.

[Nikk O'lass]

We are lucky we got the AU we did, the american propsal was even worse!

[Bipolar]

That's a good point. If we didn't get the AU we wouldn't have anything after it. The baby no one wanted but was vital to the future lol. The dude that penned the AU also did the grill for the EL GT. I bet if you didn't know that it's still not much of a surprise.

[Commando]

US au plan? Is it like that xd alternative? Because that was god damned ugly.

[nstg8a]

i thought the american proposal was the taurus?

[LUXO_8]

Think all the ugly bits on the au exaggerated x 11ty

Lol dave, that was Argentina, they got the us falcon when ford USA had finished with it and kept making it.. And making it.. And making it lol.

[Nikk O'lass]

I can't seem to find a pic online, but its in the book "true blue" (i think thats what its called)...but god damm it was ugly, i think FoA did a good job considering the parimiters layed down by head office. I recall even the wheel arches had to clear snow chains (WTF), hence the huge openings compared to the BA or FG, and for a bit of extra triva, the S3 T-series broke this ruling with its skirt extentions...


When you compare the VT to the AU, the latter still appears fresher (but the VT was based on the Opel Omega B, released '94... )

Consider this, Ford US have continually for the past 30 years tried to tell us how to build the falcon, and base it on a avaiable platform (Mazda 626/telstar, taurus, granda etc) but in the end FoA stick to there guns, they could have just based it on something else like GM-H has done for the whole of the commodore's life (bar VE).