Vehicles owned by ford.

[Fordman1]

Originally Posted by charlie200

Hi all,

My brother recently purchased a ba mk11 typhoon in Sydney and when we were looking through the log books we saw that the first owner was Ford at Cambellfield.

My question is who at Ford would own this type of car and what could it have been used for?

Cheers,
Charlie.

Either a marketing car OR a VP / Plant manager's assigned vehicle.

[BFZ Wagon]

My AUII has a Ford dealership as the first owner in the books. Apparently it was the service manager's car.

My Dad's 2004 Mitsubishi AWD VR-X was the same. It had Mitsubishi Motors as the first owner in the books. (car was bought in SA) The dealership had it for 2 years before my Dad bought it from them in 06. Long time to have a demo/company car.

[steweyau]

At various times Ford (and Holden, as well as other manufacturers) will register a heap of cars and then sell them. This gets their new car registrations statistics up.


cheers
Stewey

[Mr Hardware]

and where might you have procured this reliable, factual information from, steweyau?

[XR_Strider_GuY]

Both my 2 recent Fords are Ford Australia owned cars. My Xr6 was from a process engineering in Geelong and my current car was from Core Engineering in Broadmeadow.

[Fordman1]

Originally Posted by steweyau

At various times Ford (and Holden, as well as other manufacturers) will register a heap of cars and then sell them. This gets their new car registrations statistics up.


cheers
Stewey

Rubbish !!

[Elks]

Originally Posted by Barraxr8

Rubbish !!

^^^^ No it happens I've seen it 1st hand (Not at Ford but 2 other maunufacturers) but it the numbers involved are low and it's only bringing forward work so it shows up the next month.

[Fordman1]

Originally Posted by myts

^^^^ No it happens I've seen it 1st hand (Not at Ford but 2 other maunufacturers) but it the numbers involved are low and it's only bringing forward work so it shows up the next month.

A few Demo's that are used by Dealers. NOT Ford Motor Company Cars.

They ARE NOT owned by Ford !!

[LTDterri]

I have a good friend at the Ford factory who has just received his first company car, once you get to a certain grading you can get a car, he has been a supervisor for a while but only got to this particular grading last year, he pays $80 per week ( petrol is extra ) and has a G6E, these cars are changed over quite quickly every 8 months from memory of what he was telling me. Now he can option the car up but every option adds to his weekly cost, he then has the option of buying it at the end of the 8 months, or other employees can buy it.
A demo is registered to the particular dealer, this I know as my Territory is an ex Demo and it has the Stealers details as the first owner

[vztrt]

Originally Posted by LTDterri

I have a good friend at the Ford factory who has just received his first company car, once you get to a certain grading you can get a car, he has been a supervisor for a while but only got to this particular grading last year, he pays $80 per week ( petrol is extra ) and has a G6E, these cars are changed over quite quickly every 8 months from memory of what he was telling me. Now he can option the car up but every option adds to his weekly cost, he then has the option of buying it at the end of the 8 months, or other employees can buy it.
A demo is registered to the particular dealer, this I know as my Territory is an ex Demo and it has the Stealers details as the first owner

Yes this is true. I remember driving one of the guys black XR8's. It was manual and that car was a fantastic ride. No drive line slap or anything (apparently his wife drives it all the time). But then I drove one of the Area managers XR8's and this thing was thrashed from day one (he calmed down and had a fuel usage of 24L/100) and it slapped all over the place.

[Gobes32]

Originally Posted by vztrt

Yes this is true. I remember driving one of the guys black XR8's. It was manual and that car was a fantastic ride. No drive line slap or anything (apparently his wife drives it all the time). But then I drove one of the Area managers XR8's and this thing was thrashed from day one (he calmed down and had a fuel usage of 24L/100) and it slapped all over the place.

You drove a supervisor's car????????? You must have been one of his (or her!!!) favourites............haha

[vztrt]

Originally Posted by Gobes32

You drove a supervisor's car????????? You must have been one of his (or her!!!) favourites............haha

lol, nah the guys there are pretty good. I also had 'work stuff' to do that involved using the cars. I know that some of em even let some of the line workers drive their cars.

Mind you it was interesting seeing the look on mums face when I picked her up in an XR8 from hospital after she had surgery.

[Gobes32]

A girl in stamping from the offices used to use the plant managers car to run around in, this included a F6X, Typhoon and a GT-P!!!!!!!! Not too sure what he drives at the moment but that girl took a package anyway. I am secretly hoping her job is offered out to production again.........

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by vztrt

Yes this is true. I remember driving one of the guys black XR8's. It was manual and that car was a fantastic ride. No drive line slap or anything (apparently his wife drives it all the time). But then I drove one of the Area managers XR8's and this thing was thrashed from day one (he calmed down and had a fuel usage of 24L/100) and it slapped all over the place.

My dad bought home one of the long term evaluation FEU BA XR8 utes, it had done 50,000 of the hardest kms you could possibly imagine and it was absolutely stuffed. The auto was rough as guts and the diff was the clunkiest and noisey piece of scrap metal you could imagine. Of course my brother and I soon inflicted some more pain on it.

Everyone who took it home had thrashed the living beejeezus out of it.

[vztrt]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

My dad bought home one of the long term evaluation FEU BA XR8 utes, it had done 50,000 of the hardest kms you could possibly imagine and it was absolutely stuffed. The auto was rough as guts and the diff was the clunkiest and noisey piece of scrap metal you could imagine. Of course my brother and I soon inflicted some more pain on it.

Everyone who took it home had thrashed the living beejeezus out of it.

well they wanted it evaluated. But these cars were put through its paces. I took a Fairlane through the great ocean road one weekend. It was actually really good round the bends, I found out after that the ESP in it didn't work all the time.