Holden and Ford Australia

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You may remember from my Gran Turismo 4 threads that I had a topic called "Australian Cars," in which many of us thought that the Tickford in GT3 could spark something big. To me, I would like to have raced other Australian cars. Australian cars are a nice diversion from the American straight-liners. And in so, I wanted to allow people to talk about Australian cars from the two top makers in the country/continent/island, Holden and Ford Australia.

If you ask me, I wanted Holden to be in GT3 A-Spec (who calls GT3 "GT3 A-Spec" anymore?). I think that if you have Tickford represented, you'll need to have to include Holden to bring the rivalry digital. I'm telling you. I could pretend to be Mark Skaife of HRT (Holden Racing Team) and take the fight to Ford Australia. But this is not a GT topic. Instead, I want to focus on Holden and Ford Australia. I'll tell you what. The Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon are perchance the premier Australian cars (unless you account the Holden Monaro). When I seen my first V8 Supercar race on then Speedvision show "Motorsport Mundial," I thought the Holdens looked like Pontiacs at the front. The Commodores did look like Pontiacs, only difference is that the Holdens are mostly rear-wheel drive. And Australian cars are aerodynamic and aggressive-looking. They may not fancy flamboyant body kits or "show, no go" goodies (not saying they have to), but they are sweet. I don't know too much on the Ford Falcon except it is as mean and aggressive as its GM Australia counterpart. In the future, I'll look up more info on the Austalian Falcon.

Holden and Ford Australia on the menu. Let's do it, people! Reply away!
 
Yep I was sad that there was no Holden on GT3. They say that in order to be a hero, there has to be a Crook. Well the Crook was there. The FTR Falcon XR8 was there. The hero however wasn't. I would rather pretend to be Greg Murphy in the Kmart Racing Commodore. GT3 had DTM so why not V8 Supercars?
 
Holden's had signed an agreement with EA that stemmed from the Need for Speed series, and also covered the dreadful V8 Supercars game EA released in Australia a few years ago.

That license has expired for the V8 Supercar team (hence the appearance of the HRT Commodores in Toca Race Driver 2) but no-one's sure of the status of the agreement relating to road cars.

There was some talk in the 12 months after GT3's release that Holdens were quite taken aback with the response to the Falcon V8 Supercar being in there, and there were rumours their marketing department were trying to get organised for GT4 - whether that has happened or not, I guess we'll find out when GT4 is released.
 
Over here the Holden SS (Monaro) 5.7L 6 speed costs more then a STi. 👎

The new Ford Falcon looks like <insert bad word here>, and I much preferred the 2002 spec Monaro to the latest incarnation. Basically, oversized sedans packing relatively powerful engines (stock) that can be outclassed by a variety of smaller, faster, cheaper sedans.

Each to his own, I guess.

Edit: Is this a CiG talk or a GT4 talk, because if it is the latter, it is in the incorrect forum.
 

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