http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G12BqforrFI

 

Ford's so stupid for not bring this car to the US

 

What he said times a thousand and one. Ive wanted to see this car over here for years.

 

Top Gear AU is horrible. I just hope Top Gear US won't be that bad.

 

Didn't know that we were getting one, should be cool

 

Top Gear US should premier in April of 2009 or so.

 

my friend was at the taping of the pilot and he said it's pretty boring. I've reserved tix for the next taping

 

I would love to see a mid or full sized rwd sedan in Ford's US lineup, but if the G8 and GTO are any indication an Americanized version of an Australian car isn't the answer. Current G8 sales trends have that car falling short of what the Vette typically manages in a full sales year.

 

I agree, but they have to have the foresight to make a market if that makes any sense, they make a car called the something 281 over there (Ford that is) that looks like what Pontiac modeled their new GTO after, I would be really interesting in the Falcon too though it looks really wicked, and with a turbo 6 cylinder in todays economy I think there is a huge market.

 

Pretty cool, but at the end they said they'd perfer the LS3 to be in the Falcon, but Ford does build the equivelent, they just need to buy the Ford witht he 5.4 instead of the Turbo 6. Guess that wouldn't have made the show work as well, and then they would have to have declared a winner.


I was super suprized to see the Ford catch the holden in the drag even though the holden got a head start! I for one would love that inline 6!

 

"double overhead caaaammsss wooooooo...."

I'm also glad to see they had to foresight to keep the tires warm at all times

 

I think there is a market already, I just don't think the Commodore/G8 plays very well to it. IMHO the G8 is just too generic looking and plays the 'not quite a mid-sized but not quite full-sized card' too well for it's own good. If you want to sell a car like this under an American badge for this much money in the American market it needs to look like a proper, full-sized piece of Detroit iron befitting the price tag. IMO the G8 looks like a rwd take on the typical, mid-sized, soccer mom-mobile....if you took a Honda Accord, morphed it into a rwd car, and did a Matrix to Vibe like transformation on it you would likely end up with something very similar to the G8.......and I think that is killing this car. In contrast the 300 has performed so well in the market because it is unapologetically American in it's styling and character. If GM wants to succeed in the rwd, full-size sedan market in the Americas then that is the kind of strategy they are going to have to follow.

For what it is worth I do think the Falcon would perform at least slightly better in the US market, partially because the Falcon seems to be a bit better known outside of it's home market than the Commodore and partially because the styling of the Falcon is a bit more distinctive IMO, but I wouldn't expect the Ford to set the world on fire. Frankly, the larger, softer, Caprice rebadged as a Buick would likely perform far better in our market than either the Commodore has or Falcon would because the added size makes it absolutely clear that this is a full size car and the styling has a bit of an American vibe to it...being both cleaner and more premium looking than the Commodore, but that is just my opinion. Even then I don't think rebadged Aussie cars are the answer, at least not if anything resembling high volume is the goal, and I think the market reaction to the GTO and G8 has proven this to be true.

 

Nice clip. But to me, there is and always will be only one Top Gear - the rest are well... unless they somehow find a way to mess the UK version up.

 

i like it. less smug than original top gear... falcon is awesome