Thread: Holden v's Ford

I recently sold my beloved 1963 Compact Fairlane, that was a car!

My last car was a Holden Rodeo. I loved it. Holden all the way! No way I'd drive Jap crap .

Holden also. We've had a VT Berlina which was an absolutely excellent car, and also one of the first Frontera V6's which was a nice 4WD but the dealers were incompetant in fixing simple probs and the auto was too marginal - so it went.

Originally Posted by googe

"HO" first stood for "high output" but the press got wind of it and they changed it to handling options,just like when the press killed the phase 4 dam shame sorry im a motor head,im realy loving this site,im a converted now i think lol cheers
Greg

And killed the VJ E48 and the XU-2

Originally Posted by Utemad

My last car was a Holden Rodeo. I loved it. Holden all the way! No way I'd drive Jap crap .

You mean the holden rodeo.....made by Isuzu.........In Japan

My dad has sitting in his garage a 1985 VK Berlina V8, was custom built for the big wigs at Holden as a factory run around, got all the gear, Brocky donk and police suspension, dad dont drive coz he blind now, its in very good condition, whats it worth? certianly a nice well built old car,

Scary stuff.....brocky taught Lownes to drive V8's.....Both have driven Holden & Fords
lets hope Lownes doesn't enter targa west.

I don't think the Jap Manufactures are interested in producing a push rod V8 just to compete in the Cochran circus, AKA V8 supercars.

As nice as the GTHO phase 3 was it had the handling capabilities of a transit van . extremely talented in a straight line but hit a corner and you needed sea sick pills . Holden has always handled better and still does to this day . Why do you think they made holden get rid of the strut in the v8's ???? cos it handled better than the wishbone set up . And thats why holden also has to run ford based heads on the motor . So ford could catch up .... I know this will start a slinging match but its a fact