[Franco Cozzo]

I'm very anti SUV - they're just smaller platforms on stilts with the same engine and trans out of their smaller siblings except it handles worse, uses more fuel and it goes slower.

Ie - I'd have a Falcon over a Territory, a Mazda 2 over the CX3 etc.

The problem is me and my kind are obviously the minority, we need to consider that the average motorist has no clue and buys cars based on the in car entertainment system and it sits high so the missus can see over other cars in traffic when she's got the cubs for the school run.

What we lost with the Falcon, Commodore and Caprice was large cars with the basic formula of RWD and big engines, we're talking BMW 7 series (SWB/LWB) size cars, sure they didn't have the technology but you paid less than a quarter of the price for it too.

A BMW 730d SWB STARTS at $199,900 for the povvo spec diesel with a whole 195KW.

Caprice was a bigger car and had 304KW, 6.2L V8 for around $60K, discount of the century.

Sure it didn't get put together as nicely, but the AC is cold AF, it rides 75% as good as the 7 series and it'll blow the back ****en tyres off itself endlessly.