Wheels Car of the Year Award (Australia)

[Heep]

Originally Posted by SiGNAL748

uhhh...iirc, only select mazda vehicles were shared by ford, Escape->Tribute, Ranger->B-Series Truck; the rx8 not being one of them. Ford only controls 33% of Mazda.

FYI, by Japanese rules, 33.3% = controlling interest, so technically Mazda is under majority control by Ford.

[taranaki]

Well....I live in farming country. Toyota Hilux and Nissan Patrol are the industry standard, wannabees drive Isuzu Mu's, Vitara's and Bighorns.

Seriously wanky money drives Dodge Rams and seriously wanky money in a skirt drives Suburbans or,more recently,Territory.There's nothing wrong with them, per se, except the Hilux and the Patrol are less likely to be driven by an overdressed hoe with a cellphone clamped to her ear and one eye on the vanity mirror.

[Moppie]

Originally Posted by SiGNAL748

Ford only controls 33% of Mazda.

What Decade are you living in?

In the late 80s they had a 33% share, since the end of the 90s its been a full 100%.





As for the Territory making COTY?
I think Oz summed it up pretty well, after reading Wheels for several years its pretty clear they lack any form of objective integrity.

[SiGNAL748]

My god I have just been killed

[-Davo]

You know, Ford only won that because Holden didn't bring out a new car, we're still on the 2003 SS utes, and the Monaro.

[jcsaleen]

damn 42 cars down the crapper. some nice porsches in that lot to and dmw's as well.