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:D :D OK I'll stick around a bit longer then, unless I 'disappear' of course ;)

I will probably disappear soon enough anyway :D

I don't know where you guys get your figures but I guess as long as you believe them you will be happy. ;)

Well you've got that right, he has said one thing and then completely contradicts it and then says something totally different.
The last thing I will say is it doesn't matter how you look at the...

Yes I have understood every time you have said excluding 'SUV and pickup sales', you really don't have to keep saying it. That is why I gave you the figures for large cars which DOESN'T include SUV's...

I can't for one second see what difference it makes what car I trundle around in, I also have a 2001 Courier 4x4 dual cab turbo diesel and a people mover for the family. The Magna is our cheap...

A Magna with sex appeal ? Who was comparing a Magna with a Capri ?

Of those cars you listed I wouldn't really class any of them as a genuine sports car, things have changed a lot if the last 10...

Yes I think it is perfectly OK for a family car to look bland as long as it does what is suppose to and it sells.
Yes we have a TS, not sure if it's sterile though, there is some dirt and leaves...

The Magna is a family car, it isn't supposed to look like anything but a family car and the mileage doesn't affect the look of the car, it's not a transformer ;)
The Capri was supposed to be a...

I don't think that is the case, although the Falcon/Commodore are the biggest selling large cars the numbers sold are relativley small compared to the overall numbers of cars sold in this country and...

This is what is confusing me, you said several times that we buy more large cars than the Americans but now you say 'We will NEVER sell more large cars than America,' That is why I talked about a ...

My point was that the Capri is extremely ugly and very very boring styling wise. I didn't comment on their reliability or their performance. The $9300 I quoted was the absloute highest for the last...

Well I don't think it would be money well spent but American car companies don't seem very good at money management do they ? :-)

I'm sorry but that really doesn't make sense. Unless things have changed dramatically since I was there American family cars are at the very least the equal of a Falcon.
'Of those 223,331, 149,509...

No I did see that but I can't see anyway in the world that can be right even allowing for SUV's and Pickups.

Sales of large cars topped 1,750,000 in 2005. That's 1 and 3/4 miilion, just large...

Yeah but I was questioning the fact that we buy more large cars than Americans, I would hazzard a guess and say they buy maybe 10 times as many as we do possibly even more.
There is no doubt...

I don't know, there is more to importing a few 'odd' cars, they need a full parts, service and warranty back up, is it worth it for the numbers they would sell ? There is a huge choice of cars in the...

A GT40 could be sold as a niche product, not sure if a 4x4 based on a family sedan would meet the same criteria.

The best value I can find for one is $9,300 for the top of the range model, considering they were $34,000 new I'm not sure if that represents holding it's value well. Older ones are worth upwards of...

I spent some time in American a few years ago and they have a huge range of good sized family cars, very good quality cars very cheap.
The Americans seem to be catching on quicker than us and...

Coventry, yes I agree around a $100 isn't much but that will undoubtedly increase whereas tax for small economical cars and hybrids will drop. Like you I can't see much of a market for them really...

Falcon500, that is absolutely true.
I am not a big fan of Falcons/Commodores. I have had a few Falcons in my time but the recent models don't do much for me. Friends who have had them have had more...

No but I don't think they will sell many big cars over there. How long do you think big cars like the Foulcan or Commonwhore will be viable if petrol keeps going the way it has ?

The global market for big cars especially 4 x 4 is shrinking and in the UK there are heavy 'penalties' in the form of much higher road tax on big cars and with petrol going the way it is I think Ford...

Yes Ford Europe was set up in the 60's but of course the UK was a huge important market for them, they had built 200,000 cars by 1924.
http://www.ford.co.uk/ie/htg_fib/htg_fib/htg_fib_1900WW2/-/-/-/-

It has been mentioned that Ford were here before Europe, depending on where you refer to as Europe I suppose, they actually built a factory in England in 1911, 14 years before they arrived here.