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What if you couldn't keep your car?

OK Hypothetically speaking .. If any of us had to move to another country for their job and you couldn't keep your T-bird/Cougar, What would you get ?

Pick a country and post the car.


Never gonna happen. I don't think Sears will open up down there, but if it was Australia.

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Reply #1
Well, awhile back, I almost decided to go to Iraq, and seeing as how their....situation is what it is, I'd have been driving a truck, with a few
grunts for security.
No need for my Tbird over there. If I had a chance to go somewhere though, I'm with you, it'd be Australia, and one of those FPV Falcons...
But I still wouldn't give up my 'Bird! ;)
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Reply #2
i dunno...it depends....who makes the arial atom? id trade my tbird AND the wifes car for one of those... ;)
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Reply #3
LSX, you already pinpointed mine.  All those Falcon series cars are incredible.  I'm so jealous of the cool cars they get over there.

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Reply #4
I really wish Ford would import 'em here, like GM did with the Holden Monaro/GTO...but they porbably think that if they did, less people would buy the new Mustang, i guess..
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Reply #5
I dunno, a ute with a beefy 4.6 doesn't exactly hold the same market that the Mustang does.  It's something to hope for (I hadn't thought about the Holden --> GTO think) but don't expect it from the Ford people.

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Reply #6
I think the problem with those cars is that they're built in Australia and the UAW isn't too keen on Ford importing Ford-branded cars from other countries...

For example, I read in the magazines that the number of GTO's that GM was allotted for a year was actually mandated by the UAW because that's all the more they would allow. :dunno:

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Reply #7
i'd say mexico so i could drive a old style bettle
or canada for a pontiac tempest (corsica)

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Reply #8
Volkswagen actually quit making the old beetle in mexico a few years ago, it was a big deal. I think the last one off the line got put in a museum or some such.
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'20 Malibu (I know, Chevy, but, 35MPG. Let's go brandon, eh)

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Reply #9
Quote from: FordTruckFreeek
Volkswagen actually quit making the old beetle in mexico a few years ago, it was a big deal. I think the last one off the line got put in a museum or some such.

right but I'm sure i could find 1 or 7000 of them :D

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Reply #10
Very good one, Kyle.  I'm sure there's nothing like (a couple years ago) buying a brand new 1979-style beetle.  I've always loved old VWs too.  Anyone know if they produced convertibles too?

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Reply #11
yup. i'd go down under and get me one of the supped up I6 falcons.

or Euro and one of the wicked Evos thar aren't available here.

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Reply #12
Quote from: kyle2ooo
i'd say mexico so i could drive a old style bettle
or canada for a pontiac tempest (corsica)
OK, the Beetle I can see, but a Tempest? :yuck:
 
I'ma gonna have to go with the Australian Falcon ute thing myself, but it would take something spectacular, more than a car,  to make me ever want to move out of Canada. Is Australia looking for a new PM, by any chance?  :D
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Reply #13
If I was anywhere in Europe, I'd get a white econoline van.  You know, the ones all over the british cop shows.  It seems like if you drive one, you get a license to drive like an idiot.  Over curbs, through intersections, and pushing cars, away I go.

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Reply #14


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