The milestone car rolled out of FPV’s Campbellfield production facility just six months after deliveries began; highlighting the popularity the new-generation GT has received from the Australian market.
The article clearly counted GT, GTP and Pursuits ONLY.
I am not sure if XR6 and XR8 are counted as FPV vehicles.
The XR8 should be (according to me!) but I would understand the argument against it.
The XR6 Turbo I believe only has the engine fitted by FPV and nothing else done by them. I believe suspension is done by FPV for the XR8 but I am not sure.
Interesting figures, but the figures they displayed added up to 1000 exactly.
If it was as posted above then the car in the pic(GT-P 460) can't be the 1000th car built if all the cars are built in order!
They had it as having 454 GT-P's, so it would have to be the 1006th car of the line if they only built GT-P's between the 454th and 460th without any GT's or Pursuit's coming of the line in between. :whip:
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Your missing the point (flavze) in the overall picture the GTP was the !000th off the assembly line even though it was only the 454 GTP built No.
Cheers John
The article clearly counted GT, GTP and Pursuits ONLY.
I am not sure if XR6 and XR8 are counted as FPV vehicles.
The XR8 should be (according to me!) but I would understand the argument against it.
The XR6 Turbo I believe only has the engine fitted by FPV and nothing else done by them. I believe suspension is done by FPV for the XR8 but I am not sure.
Compared to the 314 T1/T2 cars (in 2.5 years) and the 431 T3's (in 15 months), this is a very good result.
The original sales target called for 2,000 vehicles in a full year but this was then revised downwards to 1,200.
The article is also incorrect in nominating the XW as the most successful of the GT's. That honour belongs to the XB with 2,899 over 28 months ahead of the XA series with 2,759. Let's not rewrite history in the interests of spin doctoring.
Engineering input is how I think they describe it. What that actually means in terms of hands on involvement in the development is anyones guess.
Could range from someone driving it around the block to a full house development process.
Compared to the 314 T1/T2 cars (in 2.5 years) and the 431 T3's (in 15 months), this is a very good result.
The original sales target called for 2,000 vehicles in a full year but this was then revised downwards to 1,200.
The article is also incorrect in nominating the XW as the most successful of the GT's. That honour belongs to the XB with 2,899 over 28 months ahead of the XA series with 2,759. Let's not rewrite history in the interests of spin doctoring.
I was wondring how it compared to the T-Series vehicles. Thanks for the official figures. Good to see the XB GT up there.
Go the XBs!
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