[Shotimes] Re: SHO - Not gone... just across the pond

[G Kerby Haltom]

It's not that they have fewer regs than we do, they
are just different.  Remember the extra high beam
lights that Ford had to install in those Cobra
Mustangs they sold there a few years back?

The Gen III Taurus was to replace the Falcon in 96,
but it failed miserably down under.  Lots of reasons
for that, but it made them make a much better Falcon.

And I want one, bad...

Kerby 

--- Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:

> If you "have" to have a V8, there are cars sold here
> today with a V8 and
> manual tranny (CTS-V and BMWs right off the top of
> my head). If you aren't
> stuck on a V8, the are numerous sport sedans with
> RWD or AWD and a manual
> tranny and great performance.
> 
> AU doesn't have the regs that we have t deal with,
> plus they have far
> different road conditions (very few people relative
> to the land mass). GM
> still had to do a fair number of changes to get the
> TO ready for prime time.
> 
> Ron Porter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
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> On Behalf Of Zerges, Sean (N-ManTech)
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 3:28 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] Re: SHO - Not gone... just
> across the pond
> 
> Ron,
> 
> Good point, but if the SHO was had remained in
> production stateside it
> would certainly have had to evolve just as it did
> upgrading to the V-8.
> Australia and New Zealand address the market share
> much differently than
> the US does.  But the Falcon is certainly meant to
> target the same type
> of auto enthusiasts that many of us are.  Or maybe
> they could have at
> least hooked up a blower to the Yamaha and gave us
> the Jag's AWD
> system... then the SHO would have stayed competitive
> with BWM.
> 
> They're not the same car, but since there is no Gen
> IV SHO, I certainly
> wouldn't mind importing the FPV GT-P...  
> 
> ~ just day dreaming...
> 
> v/r,
> Sean Z.
> Colorado Springs, CO
> 93 SHO MTX, 97 SHO, 02 GT
> ______________________________________________
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> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:38:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net>
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Replacement for SHO - Not
> gone... just across
>   the pond...
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> 
> V8 RWD with a manual tranny? Don't see any SHO
> comparisons there. The ad
> copy even compares it to German sedans.
>  
> The SHO was Ford's FWD version of a sport sedan
> meant to be like a BMW.
> BMW stayed the course with RWD and manual trannies,
> and other carmakers
> are starting to come back to that model.
>  
> Well, except GM with the V8 FWD SS and GXP. In their
> case, it's as the
> C&D test of the GXP said.....this would have been a
> great car 10 years
> ago.
>  
> Ron Porter
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