They were made here for many years (early 1960's to 2016) and exported to RHD countries throughout the Southern Hemisphere, so New Zealand, South Africa, Pacific Islands, Se Asia etc and I believe a few even made it as far as Japan. For a short time in the early 1970's there was even a 4x4 version built which used Jeep Cherokee running gear (Ford Australia used to supply engines to Jeep Australia at the time) . 4x4 versions are rare collectors items these days, rust and hard use having claimed most of them, although I did see one recently when out west still in the original farmer's hands and still in relatively good original condition.
You sir would be completely wrong. Early versions of these things used either a 250 CI straight six or 302 or 351 Ford V8's and went very well. Particularly the 351's which could be bought with a (barely) de-tuned version of the Falcon GTHO Bathurst engine which turned out over 300 Hp back in 1970.
Nah This was the best version IMHO. Here's an add from local carsales, this car would have sold new for ~ $3-4,500 back then in 1970-71. This was a GT version, so probably close to $4,000 end. How many other investments are that good!
You'd be close there, at the time Ford Australia was importing all it's small cars from UK / Europe and the locally built cars were styled to look like part of the Ford (Euro) family. So yeah it's a scaled up Focus style although a much bigger vehicle.Pretty wild looking thing - but what do you think of just the front half? To me it almost looks like the same proportions as my Focus...
