Absolutely brillant! Holden vs Ford: witches-hats - TV commercials

[2011G6E]

Those cars handled well...for the times.
Easy to look back now and laugh at things like glowing praise of "radial tuned suspension" (which was actually an important advance) or other makers extolling the wonders of Macpherson Strut front suspension over ordinary shockies. We take so much for granted these days it isn't funny. To be blunt, grannies little mid range Corolla would out-handle even expensive supercars from thirty or forty years ago...

I love our old WB ute...but I'm under no illusions that our sons boring old Aurion could run rings around it in just about every area.
Except styling.

[EgoFG]

When I was a wee tacker this RTS thing was big for Holden, but even then it was common knowledge that they just had a name for what everyone else considered to be Business as usual.

I once saw a guy that put the RTS badge on his victa !

[Streets]

I love watching old car ads, when things like lap-sash retractable seat belts and four-wheel disc brakes were cutting edge. That's part of the charm of owning an old car, the fact that all your now-obsolete gizmos were considered leading-edge once upon a time...

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by EgoFG

When I was a wee tacker this RTS thing was big for Holden, but even then it was common knowledge that they just had a name for what everyone else considered to be Business as usual.

I once saw a guy that put the RTS badge on his victa !

It was actually a difference...the suspension angles meant the wheels stayed more "upright" in turns so them new-fangled radial tyres could keep a good contact patch on the road surface. All makers had to do it when radials became common, but by then Holden had cleverly stitched up the "RTS" advertising benefits first before any other makers thought of doing it.