I see that GM are still gonna sell US built "Holdens" in Oz, but I can't see Aussies being fooled by shallow marketing like that,
Hmmm...............
How about Ford announcing that the last GT will roll off the line in 2013 and all those slack jawed, nuckel draging Ford nuts sold their fist born child or stopped smoking crack for a month so they could scrape up enough of their dole money to buy the last of the GT, s .
Only to have Ford produce a new modle for 2014.
That wouldn't be a shameless marketing ploy, would it Uncle Tez?
Cheers,
Brian
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Ha ha, if I could go on the dole and still afford a new GT I wouldn't be living in Oz Brian? A couple of years ago there was a loud crash outside my place, so my son Tim and I went to investigate. My neighbours place two houses down had a new GT parked in it's front yard and it's new front fence was just a memory.
At first we thought that the car was empty and assumed that the driver had done a runner. On closer inspection, there was a cute blonde crouching down in the front seat, so I invited her to step outside. As soon as she unlocked the door, I could smell the booze. She tried to explain that it wasn't her fault as it was raining and she'd just "spun out", crashing through the neighbours fence (the neighbours were away) backwards. She went on to tell me that she was paying 500 bucks per week for the pleasure of owning this car, so I asked her what she did for a living to afford that, and she told me that she was a "dancer". I'm guessing that she wasn't a ballet dancer.......
Anyway, she begged me not to call the cops, but I did, and of course when they put her on the bag, she was well over. When I went down to the cop shop to make a statement a couple of days later, they told me that this was her 3rd DUI in 5 months. Her car was trashed, my neighbour's newly built fence and landscaped front lawn were rooted, and she'd spun up the back wheels trying to drive away, throwing the river gravel in their garden bed through their front windows.
I'm presuming that her insurance (if she had any) wouldn't have paid for the damage, but a couple of weeks later Tim saw her driving a new HSV Dunny-Door? I guess she must have been a really good dancer? Really good dancers who can drive drunk without licenses and afford better cars than me really piss me off...............