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Old 18-07-2010, 09:04 PM   #31
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XD ESP dash for me, well laid out and classy with silver highlight, especially at night with the red lighting. Got lots of comments about that.
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Old 19-07-2010, 06:28 AM   #32
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Falcon has to be XK - XP

Fairlane has to be ZC - ZD

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Old 19-07-2010, 10:24 AM   #33
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Easy for me.

AU LTD by far one of the best dashes and interiors Ford has ever made. Even had its own colour scheme!
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Old 19-07-2010, 10:25 AM   #34
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XB GT looks the best and has a good headlight dipper.
The passenger should not be able to see the speedo. it's a safety feature that can avoids arguments. and it does not have that dangerous air bag nonsense.
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Old 19-07-2010, 11:22 AM   #35
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EL GT is flash
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Old 19-07-2010, 11:39 AM   #36
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Just on that, the EB1 Fairmont/Fairmont Ghia still had a digital speedo, but the EB2s onwards had full analogue. I liked it on my EA Ghia.

My vote probably goes to EF-EL series as it's a better quality material than later models and easier to keep clean. The instruments and buttons are user friendly, easy to read and fairly durable too.
Also loved my EB Ghia dashboard...
Never realised how much I enjoyed having the exact number in front of me (though who knows how accurate it was)...

Interestingly... if you drove it over 200km/h... the last reading was 199... and it would stay there until you came back down...
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Old 19-07-2010, 11:53 AM   #37
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XB GT looks the best and has a good headlight dipper.
The passenger should not be able to see the speedo. it's a safety feature that can avoids arguments. and it does not have that dangerous air bag nonsense.
Arguments about 102km/h never end for me :( Be Better if the passengers read a book :P
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Old 19-07-2010, 12:51 PM   #38
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XA XB GS GT dash for the win

Love that cockpit style!
I agree..Love the cockpit style but it would be good if the dash was a bit brighter at night. It can be hard to read the gauges.
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Old 19-07-2010, 12:56 PM   #39
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Arguments about 102km/h never end for me :( Be Better if the passengers read a book :P
Tell your missus that you ARE doing 100kph but because of the angle she's looking at it from, (the needle is 4-5mm from the dash surface), it just looks higher from where she sits.


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Old 19-07-2010, 01:07 PM   #40
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Funny the amount of people who don't know their dashboards from their instrument clusters!
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Old 19-07-2010, 05:19 PM   #41
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For the contempoary models the High series AU with priemium sound does it for or me (Fairmont/Fairlane/T Series) - but it really does need the MoMo wheel to pull all the ergonomics together

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Old 19-07-2010, 06:34 PM   #42
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i like the XC GXL dash always grabed my attention
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Old 19-07-2010, 09:06 PM   #43
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XF S'pack for me, the uncomplicated falcon dash layout with the bonus of the ghia's digital type gauges.
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Old 19-07-2010, 09:17 PM   #44
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XF S'pack for me, the uncomplicated falcon dash layout with the bonus of the ghia's digital type gauges.
Yeah I agree, thats why I never upgraded my old semi digital s pack instrument panel for the full digital ghia version.
All though I did prefer the ghia dash layout.
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