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Old 06-08-2021, 03:55 PM   #1
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Default AUs begin to colonise the world

In what could be the most successful Aussie export since we sent those possums to that island in NZ, the humble AU has begun to spread it's wings and populate the globe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trf6fxT-DGE

and part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmBm4qB4Wvg


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Old 06-08-2021, 04:02 PM   #2
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It's a virtual plague of ugly pestilence.
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The real pandemic
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Can see where this'll end up. Any thread that involves AU looks always heads south.

Make me like em more.
Best late model falcon made Imo.
Wished I'd kept the 2 I owned.
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Can see where this'll end up. Any thread that involves AU looks always heads south.

Make me like em more.
Best late model falcon made Imo.
Wished I'd kept the 2 I owned.

only got rid of mine .... coz the missus said it's too rusty & took the plates [rust in 'C' pillars, rear doors, above rear glass etc etc.]
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They were also sent to Samoa and South Africa.

Got pictures of the rare elusive beasts whilst there on safari
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All the hate and memes has only driven the price and popularity up. One day a simple S1 Forte will break the record for the most expensive Australian car ever sold.

AU’s are gods cars, only up from here
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All the hate and memes has only driven the price and popularity up. One day a simple S1 Forte will break the record for the most expensive Australian car ever sold.

AU’s are gods cars, only up from here
Preaching to the choir mate.

Blokes that think they ugly need an eye check up.
PS wanna sell the rebel
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I have a soft spot for the AU. I owned a series 1 classic from new. I think they have aged much better than their holden rivals in the looks department. It was only the forte that had the poorest look. Other specs were quite ok and the technology in them shaded holden.
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Can see where this'll end up. Any thread that involves AU looks always heads south.

Make me like em more.
Best late model falcon made Imo.
Wished I'd kept the 2 I owned.
Always starts with the AU lovers getting butthurt about their blind love for their ugly duckling when someone challenges it - its the redheaded step child of Ford Australia's design team

Susan Boyle is a talented artist, wouldn't pick her out from a lineup though.
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Always starts with the AU lovers getting butthurt about their blind love for their ugly duckling when someone challenges it - its the redheaded step child of Ford Australia's design team

Susan Boyle is a talented artist, wouldn't pick her out from a lineup though.
Always starts? Read the posts, the folks that don't like it post first
Hardly butt hurt.
Challenging my like for AU falcons, good luck.

You really have an opinion on everything don't you, it's like you have nothing better to do.
Get over yourself.
Many ppl like em, you act like no one does.
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Remember folks, it's not just about the looks - it's about where AUs and other Aussie Falcons got to. And if they do become a worldwide meme, will people from other countries take all our AUs, like they tried to with the XA Hardtops?


Also internationally, I think there was a LPG Taxi order of AU wagons to Hong Kong?

In the vids linked at the start, he says there's quite a few Aussie Falcons in the UK.
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Always starts? Read the posts, the folks that don't like it post first
Hardly butt hurt.
Challenging my like for AU falcons, good luck.

You really have an opinion on everything don't you, it's like you have nothing better to do.
Get over yourself.
Many ppl like em, you act like no one does.
Thanks for proving my point
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Thanks for proving my point
Thanks for missing the point.
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A lot of younger guys seem to be wanting them. Three young fellas I personally know, all of a sudden have bought au falcons and tell me there the new hotness and apparently the au wagon is the holy grail . I never thought in a million years younger ones would get into them, I mean an xr8 looks hot but not an au wagon
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A lot of younger guys seem to be wanting them. Three young fellas I personally know, all of a sudden have bought au falcons and tell me there the new hotness and apparently the au wagon is the holy grail . I never thought in a million years younger ones would get into them, I mean an xr8 looks hot but not an au wagon
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Franco, like Fiji, you have had your fun. Anymore posts revving AU owners up will be deleted.
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A lot of younger guys seem to be wanting them. Three young fellas I personally know, all of a sudden have bought au falcons and tell me there the new hotness and apparently the au wagon is the holy grail . I never thought in a million years younger ones would get into them, I mean an xr8 looks hot but not an au wagon
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I have always thought that the AU Ute was the best looking of the series.
AU front on a more squared body sort of thing.
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so many people need to care less about what others like and enjoy. i love my pursuit 250, don't care if others don't

i like to live my life by the moto 'you do you boo'
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ha,ha. your,ve done it now franco, priceless.
i reckon the normal au,s are ugly, but the twin head light xr,s are ok. the twin head concept finished with the au . and the designers weren,t brave enough to carry it on. i think ba and newer are boring bland designs , they should have kept the twin head light for xr,s
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Thread just needs hulk to post about how an aurion would smash an au xr8. No au thread is complete without it lol.
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I think some fairlanes made their way over to the UK, probably as funeral cars if I remember right.

With the way things are going here in ozcatraz I might have to export my good one... along with myself.
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Just wait another couple of years until the first s1's turn 25, and the Americans will be allowed to drive them, you probably won't be able to get an s1 Forte for under 50K, LOL

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the door window seals shrink , how can you restore the molded rubbers? nobody makes replacements.
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Hot when they are fit...still one of the best looking supercars in my opinion

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I admit that one looks nice but most of the ones I see on the streets these days look very neglected and have flaking sunburnt clear coat. I know they are getting on but I think the older E series have aged better. The AU's look never grabbed me at all and that was a reason I skipped that model in the chain of Fords I have owned. But each to their own taste and if some people find AU's attractive that's fine with me. There are much uglier cars that some people love too but IMO not any uglier Falcon models.
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I admit that one looks nice but most of the ones I see on the streets these days look very neglected and have flaking sunburnt clear coat. I know they are getting on but I think the older E series have aged better. The AU's look never grabbed me at all and that was a reason I skipped that model in the chain of Fords I have owned. But each to their own taste and if some people find AU's attractive that's fine with me. There are much uglier cars that some people love too but IMO not any uglier Falcon models.
People said the same thing about XD-H boxyness once. Me included.
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Hot when they are fit...still one of the best looking supercars in my opinion

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That can never be posted in support of a au. Everything detail in that livery is to hint towards the ba coming out. Headlight surround is the most obvious
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Lol, not if ya want to spend ya nights "horizontal"........with a hot date!



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Previous experience of owning an AU wagon and having a couple of birds in the back of it suggests you couldn't be further from the truth!
As for the video, I wouldn't call 'the forgotten world highway' as off road. Last time I drove it was in my old wagon a few years ago 👌

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