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Originally Posted by new2ford
I would tend to believe what you read on the Ford website but I wouldn't believe what you read on the Holden website.
These were the Australian-made cars that in fact introduced some of the above features first:
Austin 1800 had seatbelts as standard from 1964.
Anti-lock brakes (pressure limiting valve) was on the Mini from 1961.
Independent rear suspension was also on the Mini from 1961.
Other claims made by Holden include: radial ply tyres (Austin 1800 1964), disc brakes (Mini Cooper 1962).
All these features carried through to other BMC models. It took Holden 20-30 years to catch up with some of these developments.
The ABC once did an excellent expose on Toyota's claim to have opened up the Snowy Mtns Scheme with the Landcruiser. Land Rover had all the order books to prove their claim to history. All Toyota could produce was their own publicity brochure! I wish somebody in the media could get stuck into Holden the same way. As I said - Goebbels is alive and well at Holden. If you keep repeating a lie everyone will believe it.
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This is about Australian firsts....
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