The Taurus is a front wheel drive heap of shit, I'm not sorry to say.

I never thought about until now, but when I see an XD,E,F Falcon, I start to get nostalgic. They used to be everywhere and now, I'm lucky to see one in a week.

All I know is it cost about 3 or 4K AUD (3 or 4K USD) for shipping a car from the US to Australia.

I saw one yesterday. It didn't have the XR8 quad light front end, it was just the base model with a V8. But it had a non standard exhaust and sounded like a real old school muscle car. Just the sound alone makes me weak at the knees.

I'll give you good one and a bad one...

I hope it gets smashed into the wall at Rascasse.

Do people in America go beyond ridiculous and convert prime movers like Kenworth and Mack into pick-ups?

Are you questioning whether a Hollywood action movie plot could be pulled off in real life? That's why I love America... They ask if life can imitate art... Then live life, imitating art. How could life ever be boring in America?

Is that a rhetorical question Tristan? What are you trying to say?

That's roight khant! No pooftahs and no doiks in Straya...

Yeah? Well shame on you New Zealand, SHAME! Your nation, your voice... has infected Aussie breakfast television with that thing below... what do you call it? A paulhenry?

Domestic Fosters is crap, utter crap and a lot of Aussies don't know why it's so popular. But what most people don't know is the Fosters you guys get in America is actually sold in Australia as Crown Lager. Which is a very good beer.

If you come to Sydney, Jalops are welcome in my house.

The Falcon is the longest running nameplate Ford has had.

Thanks for the show of support.

I may have to go into hiding. Least I get a hiding from family and friends.

Dear New Zealand...

It was Ford America that was keeping the Falcon out of America. They had originally planned to engineer the current model Falcon for the American market... Utes and all. But Dearborn lost their balls and killed that idea.

They'd be completely dead to me. Persona non grata. I would become a Holden fan and not even a hastily engineered Mustang for Aussie roads will change that (well maybe a little).

People in Ford America have a problem called NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here). A V8 RWD sedan that Americans will love (harking back to the good ol' full sized RWD platform) but not invented in America is a problem for patriotic Ford executives.