Ford & Holden rivalry

K_Man · 06-07-2005, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rick69

Because a group of motoring journalists started a campaign with the public to write letters of demand to Holden to keep the V8 alive.
It was called the V8's till 98 campaign.

I thought it would of been because Ford took market leadership with the XE, and then dropped the v8 just as people were falling in love with big cars again. Holden, being stuck with the Opel platform, perhaps kept the v8 to try sway people away from the big Fords. 'Here's a big car with a biggish engine, here's a car that's not as big but it has a bigger engine.' Hmmm, i know which way i would of gone

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Although having said that, motoring journalists about 5 years later were wondering why a v8 was needed in the Commodore lineup when they had the 3.0L turbo. Thank you Holden for sticking with it.

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