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31-05-2014, 08:11 AM | #3661 | ||
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31-05-2014, 09:33 AM | #3663 | ||
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31-05-2014, 09:42 AM | #3664 | ||
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31-05-2014, 09:44 AM | #3665 | ||
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Just spotted this 'Everest' at Maroondah Hwy/Springvale Rd intersection in Nunawading ! Sitting amongst other SUVs doing the morning kids sport commute... Would have stood out less if it wasn't disguised !
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31-05-2014, 09:47 AM | #3666 | |||
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31-05-2014, 10:31 AM | #3667 | |||
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That particular Toreass has been in FoA's inventory for a few years. Unless they have replaced it with another of the same colour.
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31-05-2014, 10:32 AM | #3668 | ||
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the Torarse *** end looks so bad
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31-05-2014, 11:08 AM | #3669 | |||
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But it's not designed with RHD in mind and no one wants large sedans anyway so why replace an unpopular large sedan with another large sedan? Neither would sell. |
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31-05-2014, 11:10 AM | #3670 | ||
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Well that explains what this is then... spotted at the intersection of Ferntree Gully Road and Blackburn road a couple of weeks ago
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31-05-2014, 11:17 AM | #3671 | ||
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Dash looks unfinished mule style, doubt if it's fully representative of the finished product.
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When close is good enough and the 6 MPS in the driveway has FoMoCo written all over the place. Xr5 for sale shortly...just not a hatch guy |
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31-05-2014, 12:44 PM | #3672 | |||
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Of topic but are you dead set? Cruise is brilliant. More time with eyes on the road not looking at the speedo every 30 seconds and if you want you can have your foot hovering over the brake pedal in case of an incident ahead. But if awareness is taking your eyes away from the road and your surroundings to look at a dial than so be it. |
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31-05-2014, 01:13 PM | #3673 | |||
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31-05-2014, 01:39 PM | #3674 | |||
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There's always an element of the community that will be able to criticize anything... be it useful features like cruise control or safety advances like seat belts, ABS and ESP. Having said that, it's nice to see the negativity in this thread directed towards something other than the Falcon. |
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31-05-2014, 01:45 PM | #3675 | ||
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Agree with stevefreestyle, cruise is bad. Maybe some enthusiasts hover foot over brake and use cruise for more conscious scanning if environment, but most average drivers use it in a lazy manner, with right foot relaxing off to the right side wall next to accelerator pedal.
3 things 1. Reaction time to incident to get foot across from right wall across and over the face of accelerator to brake pedal (lets not even discuss those who panic in an incident and jam down on the wrong pedal by accident). This is even worse in heavy city traffic where speed needs constant adjusting with accelerator and brake due to traffic 2. Accelerator Pedal feedback is now gone, hills bends etc we are now only relying on sight alone and not the combination of pedal feel and sight. Whoops did we just go into a tight bend at110 without easing off the accelerator because cruise actually increased throttle opening to maintain speed. 3. Dumbing down driving- once again an enthusiast might take advantage of cruise for better situational awareness, but for most cruise just switches their mind further off from conscious driving, making it even easier and less engaging, until they run into someone or something. It is my belief cruise is responsible for a lot of single vehicle accidents in the country, sure microsleep & drowsing is the main cause, but what causes microsleep? Being less present and engaged whilst driving. The car doing half the driving job for you!
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31-05-2014, 01:54 PM | #3676 | ||
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You sound like one of the people on my daily trip to Ballarat who's speed is constantly changing between 85km/h and 110km/h. That is, the sort of person who makes me hope the next Falcon has adaptive cruise so the car can deal with these sporadic speed changes for me.
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31-05-2014, 02:17 PM | #3677 | ||
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Thanks for the gross assumptions and personal attack mate. Good stuff!
Have adaptive cruise on my 2013 jeep grand Cherokee so can compare from real experience. Adaptive is fine in light to medium traffic, but jeep/chrysler/Mercedes adaptive cruise disengages under 30km under heavy braking with warnings chimes flashing lights etc and by then if there is heavy braking required and you're not already on the pedal as with normal driving, you're stuffed. After testing it for a month, I choose not to use it and to actually use normal driving skills and remain an active driver and keep constant speed. No variations to the speed limit as youve accused, it's called throttle modulation, you should try it. Works better than cruise if you actually drive your car When we are all passengers in the google car that does everything from start to finish with 100% safety, then it's different , but for now while people are doing half the job, it's more of a problem for the general population who'd rather be on facebook for their whole journey than actually drive. And I'd expect most on this forum actually want to drive their cars
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31-05-2014, 03:33 PM | #3678 | |||||
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I must admit I struggle to understand how driving along a perfectly flat and straight highway is any less safe by using a button or a foot pedal. The time taken to move the foot to the brake pedal would be minimal and if someone's panicking then they could just as easily press the accelerator pedal with or without cruise control. Quote:
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31-05-2014, 04:21 PM | #3679 | |||
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Which is why I would like the feature in the new Falcon.
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31-05-2014, 04:39 PM | #3680 | ||
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So people are **** drivers and cant maintain speeds so you want a machine to do it for them so they never learn and remain **** drivers for life good point you have there.
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31-05-2014, 05:01 PM | #3681 | |||
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Well yes actually. Not everyone wants to be a race car driver so if they're assisted in not causing inconvenience for other road users then that's a good thing. |
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31-05-2014, 05:07 PM | #3682 | ||
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I better get this dash pic cropped quickly .......... Spyman |
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31-05-2014, 05:10 PM | #3683 | ||
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I am sure the new Falcon will have that new fandangled Cruisy Control thingy ......... so now we can get back to the subject of the new Falcon
As far as the spears go, would put a bet on the fact that the spears will be the last thing that goes in. I sat in the new Ranger at Ford ZA South Africa a few years ago and mentioned that the dash looked very cheap and crappy. Was promptly laughed at
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31-05-2014, 05:11 PM | #3684 | |||
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These people *do not care* about modulating speed, they look at the speedo, see they are doing 10 under so speed up, look at their speedo, see they are doing 10 over so hit the brakes. Not fun to drive behind.
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31-05-2014, 05:13 PM | #3685 | |||
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And I sat in the new Everest and said the interior was.....well "ranger " for a completely ground up SUV Spyman |
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31-05-2014, 07:23 PM | #3686 | ||
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Ask the poor buggers in draconian states with low km speed tolerance what they think of cruise. If any tool can save us from spending every moment of our lives wondering about 2kmh it's a good thing. Back on topic before this thread gets as diluted as the other please.
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01-06-2014, 09:19 AM | #3687 | ||
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01-06-2014, 01:16 PM | #3688 | ||
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Here is an rough, updated photo of what I think the butt end of the FH will look like based on spy photos:
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01-06-2014, 02:07 PM | #3689 | |||
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From what I can remember, it had the Ranger's door-pulls but the rest of the dash was different. The current Ranger interior is OK but they'd want/need a new interior for a 2015 model. Sorry, back to the Falcon. |
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01-06-2014, 03:05 PM | #3690 | ||
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The new Falcon should have the speed limiter feature, as in the Focus. Very handy in city traffic, allowing you to do any speed up to the limit you set. Absolutely brilliant feature!
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