Why are British Fords so much better than American fords?

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>>15775230

Very different cultures and very different cars built for very different things. I like both, honestly.

americans dont care if their cars are good as long as its "fast"

Britain has more expensive fuel and more regulations while also having a bigger rally scene so small fast 4cyls got more popular and if they can't go fast they better have good handling

English have no style so their cars look w
Really odd. I appreciate them and I am jelly

>>15775230
Because Americans have money, which can buy many things but they cannot buy taste.

>>15775230
Wish I could own one. Maybe in a few years. Probably have inflated prices like most cars that become available to import here.

>'British Ford'
>Built in Germany

>>15775386
>that feeling when Americans have to import Fords to the US because they weren't allowed to drive them for 25 years

>>15775296
Don't speak for everybody arsehole

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>>15775398
Escort Cosworths are exempt from the 25 year rule

>>15775398

Coming from an american, our government is entirely composed of idiots. Thousands of people in office and most of them doing it wrong. First world struggle.

>>15775230

>that feel when we'll never get the Falcon xr6 turbo because rustangs and muh heritage

>>15775462
Why is that?

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>>15775472
dunno, i think someone applied for approval and got it

>>15775468
>our government is entirely composed of idiots.
Government is a reflection on the voters

>>15775491

Ho ho. Got me. Damn, wish I could be clever on the internet.

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Even when brit ford gives merica ford a car, they manage to screw it up.
Lucky they didn't make that mistake with the focus and fiesta.

>>15775525
We got the nicer Trim of the ST170 with the SVT, the downside was we didn't get the nicer headlights or the early model RS.

>>15775491
Can you give me an example where this isn't the case?

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>>15775525
wat

>>15775230
>>15775241
>>15775253
Idk about you people but this shit looks fucking ugly. I don't really care if they're better when it looks like ass.

At least
>>15775462
>>15775481
Looks cool because racecar. Keep your shit on the islands please.

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as far as the performance stuff goes they have never really built a bad car that i can think off off the top of my head, usually quite pretty next to other cars of the time too.

>>15775539
>split rear windows
why?

>>15775756
probably to give the chassis more rigidity or something like that

US Ford
>Ford Anal Probe
>Mustang of the same era only made 200 HP out of a 289 CID V8
>no one ever bought the XR4
>Ford Transit can't be sold with rear windows because of 50 year old tax

UK Ford
>Ford Escort Cosworth
>based Ford Fiesta

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>>15775230
Excuse me?

>>15775532
HIDs were an option on SVT Focus.

>>15775525
The Tempo sold like hotcakes though. And we got those under the Merkur brand, they were shit.

>>15775784
Ford Probe actually performed well against the competition
Mustang made 225hp and 300 lb ft from a 302
you could buy a Mustang GT and a Probe GT and still have money left over with what the Escort cost when they were all new
XR4 was shit
who cares about a shitty van when US vans are better
who cares about a generic shitbox?

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>>15775811
Yes, HIDS were an option, but the actual headlight assembly was different.

None of the aftermarket headlights look like the Euro models either so you have to import them or buy them from someone in the community.

>>15775784
>ford fiesta
>ford UK

>>15775845
The butt hurt is palpable

>>15775865
I know

he cant even bother to reply hes probably fuming and crying to a photo of the queen

>>15775500
>clever
I was being serious

>>15775536
Nope

>>15775868
No. I meant from the yanks.
Yanks car will never be relevant.

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>when you ask yuropoors to design mustang

>>15775906
better than being an irrelevant country if you ask me
not to mention UK doesnt make anything of significance and hasnt for years

>>15775910
looks like a riced AMC Eagle lel

Now that we get the mustang here in blighty there aren't any USDM-only fords i care for

>>15775920
But yet you can't stop talking about us.

>>15776027
how bad is the education over there to think that being talked about makes you relevant

Hitler is dead therefore irrelevant but people talk about him plenty

pls shitpost better

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>>15775910
Yes, because the american model looked so much better...

>>15776061
Oh dear.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks

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>>15775790
I think you chose the wrong file m80

>>15776089
That wouldn't look too bad without the cheesehole wheels

>>15775784
>>Ford Anal Probe
That was a Mazda though.

>>15776132
You did, too

>>15775253
My Dad owned 2 of these when i was younger. Too bad they rusted like shit and old people are making prices rise.

>>15775230
ford europe development happends in germany

>>15776204
It was 506 pixels when I downloaded it...

>>15776237
you mean Essex, uk

>>15776341
Cologne, Germany.

>>15776346
Ecoboost was developed in the UK

>>15776364
wtf i hate the uk now

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>>15775241
Forget something?

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Why are German GMs so much better than American GMs?

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>>15777094

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>>15777094

>>15776572
>Shitty Pinto SOHC 2.3 turbo
>Not godlike DOHC 2.0

NO, it would have seemed Ford USA forgot something

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>>15777094
>burgers never got the original Lotus with a GM engine swap

Is this thread some form of British weebism?

Both US and Euro Ford had some great vehicles, and both built some terrible shitboxes too.

>>15777158
Shhh youll interrupt their shitposting, it's how Euros cope with being unable to have almost anything /o/ related that's fun.

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>>15777132
the na dohc 2.0 was a crock of shit
this is the only dohc 2.0 that mattered

>>15777169
>it's how Euros cope with being unable to have almost anything /o/ related that's fun
it's how Euros cope with being unable to have anything even remotely like fun*

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>>15777094

>>15775556
and that's why they give you shittier cars

>>15777202
Fucking rad paint.

>>15777202
>riced manta

This kills the Opel.

>>15777173
That's the engine I meant, forgot to put turbo, cheers

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>>15775910
>when yuropoors build their own mustang, with hookers and blackjack

>>15777549
Gone in 45 seconds.

>>15777549

Amerikeks btfo

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>>15775230
Our limited technology only allows us to farm Burgers, enjoy everything we don't get.

>>15775230
>Why are British Fords so much better than American fords?
bc the american ford bar is pretty fuckign low?

I'll admit, a major part of my decision to buy a Fiesta ST was that it was the closest thing we've gotten in my adult lifetime to the British Fords I've been lusting after for decades.

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>>15777549
The AM looks more like it, but IMO this is the real Yuro 'Stang right here.

>>15777169
this post stinks like sour grapes.

>>15775556

You look like ass.

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wait, what?

>>15779867
I think it's more like this thread stinks of sour grapes. Euros arr outright pathetic on here, "look at all this cool shit that almost nobody but a CEO can own because of how our laws work!" Meanwhile a student in the US can buy and insure a 5.0L sports car for insanely cheap.

>>15781744
>opel mantas and sierra cosworths are unattainable
>ford gts aren't

>>15781761
Aren't Sierra Cosworths pretty rare and pricey?

>>15781761
>moving goalposts
His point was that Mustangs with high horsepower V8s are more easily attainable for Americans which draws you eurocucks to be as insanely jealous as you lot usually are

>>15781774
As well as XR4s, etc. Remember when that on europoor made that giant-ass template for other europoors to put their cars on and it was like seven 1.2L hatches and an AW11 N/A on blocks?

>>15781769
RS500s are

>>15781786
>>15781774
Also I should add that stock cheap mustangs usually have shit power but thats because they're detuned, and are cheap to modify to get a lot of power out of. Not like their stock power is the engines absolute limit.

>>15781786
Must have missed that, can't be on here 24/7 m8

>>15781792
Absolutely this, the only euros that I see on here that don't bitch about V8s are usually Germans who have enough sense to use LPG instead of just petrol

>>15781744
>an buy and insure a 5.0L sports car for insanely cheap
and it'll be worse in every way than any euro car.
america is irrelevant in anything automotive related

>>15781818
>worse in every way than any euro car
Even your 1.2L shitbox? Yeah nah
>America is irrelevant for anything automotive related
Remember when Ford embarrassed Ferrari not once, but twice at LeMans? Oh, you conveniently forgot, how yuropoorean of you

>>15781841
>Remember when Ford embarrassed Ferrari not once, but twice at LeMans? Oh, you conveniently forgot, how yuropoorean of you

that was in 1969, and the car was developed in britain

>>15781895
>"""""Forgetting""""" this year's LeMans
>the one where Ferrari tried to sabotage Ford through the officials and ended up cucking themselves
Truly pathetic

>>15781913

>final 2 years of the GT40 winning were British entries

>>15781933
See
>>15781913

>>15781818
Hahahaha weren't you just accusing me of sour grapes for no reason?
>I can't have it it must be terrible

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>itt: butthurt yurocucks get BTFO by FREEDOM
Business as usual I see.

>>15781913
you mean the one Porsche won? Like the the year before.
The yanks haven't even be in contention for about 50 years.
Yanks are so shit at automotive sports they had to invent their own. And any time the euros or japs get involved in those, they make the yanks look stupid.

What was the name of that yankie F1 team?
Oh wait, there isn't one.
What was the name of that yank exotic super car manufacturer?
Yeah, I never of them either.
What was that world famous race track in yankland? The one people from all over the world travel to drive on?
It doesn't exist

Remind me again how america is relevant?

>B.B.But mah Vee ate
Fuck off

>>15782117
>F1
You mean the most corrupt form of motorsport? The one that's about as bad as FIFA? That one? Right, keep moving the goalposts because you know you lot are utter shit, especially Brits, when it comes to endurance racing, but keep claiming German engineering as your own
>V8
It was actually a TTV6 that kicked Ferrari's ass, but you still refuse to admit it, sour grapes for sure

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>>15782117
>VAG spends ten gorillion eurobucks on developing the Jewgatti OyVeyron just to claim the title of "fastest car in the world"
>a yank conman LS swaps a Lotus and slaps two turbos on it, promptly stealing VAGs "fastest car" title and absolutely destroying the OyVeyron after 60mph

>>15782150

>Boosted LS7 Block won't hold together long enough to do a return run
>No outright speed record

lel

>>15782150
>Can only go fast in a straight line
>destroys tires in seconds
>practically killed the test driver

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>>15782150
too bad that modified elise isn't a production car, and too bad it is not the fastest street legal modified car either

>>15782267
>>15782280
Yankies on suicide watch

>>15782332
see
>>15782285

>>15782285
EUROKEKS ON SUICIDE WATCH

>>15782684
>>15782336

>slower than a chrion
>"on suicide watch"

dumb burger

>>15782684
Whats your point?
Yanks can go fast in a straight line?
The world land speed record is held by a Brit.

Heres a compound charged 125cc single cylinder non streamlined moterbike that'll top 110mph.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk9ccACe79A&feature=youtu.be

You think the jap sportbike oems give a fuck?

>>15782740
>needing a car that costs $10 million per to beat an American car that costs 1/20 the price by only 3 mph
>"""""Superior""""' engineering
Pathetic eurocucks


>>15782745
>moving goalposts yet again

Yes, a straight line, that typically how you hit top speed, did you think it was going to be in the corners you idiot?

>>15775920
>UK doesnt make anything of significance

>what are range rovers
>what are jaaaaaaaaags
>what are austin merkels

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>>15777225

>not wanting the 200th decade in car form

>>15782955
irrelevant, just look at their sales numbers

>>15781802

LPG is common as fuck on larger engines in the UK too.

a good 40% I'd say of murican vee ates are on LPG and the same goes for range rovers and shit.

BTW I'm a bong and I love murican cars pls no bully

>>15775756
Because awesome

>>15775888
Our gov may be shit but still far better than any other government in the world today. The American form of government is perfect and it works for us. Wouldn't work for many others. Checks and balances keep our president relatively powerless, the people are armed to the teeth and have better freedoms than anyone else.

>>15782974

>~42930 F-Types built to date with ~30% going to murica
>everything else bar the XE is being built at at least twice the rate and for at least twice as long

>>15783032
>Americans actually believe this
You fools

>>15775756
Probably because those tilt-open windows were a popular fad at the time, and the original full window was a bit too large for that.

>>15775845
well the ford probe was basically a mazda mx6 with some new sheet metal bolted to it, so it doesn't really count

>>15776132
>I think you chose the wrong file
>133x90

I think you saved the wrong file
dumbass

>>15782796
>d-doesn't count because I am poor

>>15775536
Autocracies.

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>>15783032
>this is what americlaps actually
enjoy waiting 25 years to import a car and being sent to guantanamo if the catch you importing one sooner

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the uk will never know the feel of driving the greatest thing ford ever made

>>15783154
>missing the point

>>15783166
have fun getting sent to jail when there's a rust spot on your frame during your annual inspection

>>15783199
does not happen here

try again

>>15783225
how about "revving your engine in a potentially racist manner"?

>>15783238
does not happen here

try again

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>>15775230
Well Ford UK made the DFV, best V8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEFDfctC_6M

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How can us even compete?

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>meet what the aussies get instead of fusions
>2015 ford Falcon
>rwd
>stick
>350+ bhp
We can't have them because they don't want it to out compete the Mustang.

>>15775230
Why do Bongs think Euro Ford is anything to with them any more? The Sierra and Escort Cosworths were built in Belgium and Germany.

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>>15783185
>tfw this looks like it was designed with a kids pencil by a 7 yr old

>>15783903
Developed in the UK.
Also those cars are nearly 30 years old now. Try and keep up.

>>15783166
You said you own a fucking Chevy c10, are you not a martsharter as well?

>>15783892
fusion= mondeo
falcon= taurus

because Ford Europe is a completely separate company and people in Europe appreciate quality cars / a lot of those cars were built for homologation

>>15775230
Because British people are better.

>>15782150
Looks at GWR, Veyron. Stay cucked by the French, again.

>>15783892
that looks like a shitty stretched latest gen audi tt.
wew, the old falcon was good looking, but they had to ruin it again.

>>15775230
I'm still fucking assblasted we never got the XR3 in bugerland.

>>15775230
They aren't. Only like 3 specimens of Fords in Britain were any better or different.

>>15785940
at comitting war crimes.
FUCK GB, inbred wankers, their shitty island should sink into the ocean, it won't be missed anyways.

>>15786034
>nazis dindu nuffin
Everybody did some seriously fucked up shit in WWII anon, and it's time to let that go.

>>15786034
>at comitting war crimes.
Yes, those 2 thermonuclear detonations over a civilian population were abhorrent and completely inexcusable.

Oh wait, that was the yanks.

>>15786060
Breaking treaties and fire bombing civilian cities
Intentionally bombing supply lines that lead to pow camps
Sending own men straight to their deaths when no military advantage is to be gained from a victory
And creating the industry of modern war profiteering

>>15786089
>were abhorrent and completely inexcusable
WTF comic book have you been reading?

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>>15786096
Problem?

>>15786060
Why did you kill the poor abos?