Australia is the insane car. Has always been. For decades, the Holden-Ford debate has been a major topic of conversation, and if you scratch an Australian motorist on anything to do with their car, you talked your ears off. Nothing to do with the car service is likely to create a debate, or at least triggered some stories on issues.
The real car culture began in the 1950s baby boom was in full swing, and the post-war population was surging. The construction industry has doubled the size of Melbourne and Sydney, and the newly rich middle class went to buy cars like never before.
This was the real Holden-Ford rivalry took off. Holden, a subsidiary GMH, was introduced as the Aussie car, while Ford were built in Australia. 1950 Holdens and Ford were difficult cars, large steel cars with a range of fins and designs that, even to this day look like strange cars, cartoon, but it has since generally agreed that they were great cars under the hood, whatever designs.
a series of amateur car mechanics generation is born. The big weekend in Australia involved a Saturday or Sunday on fixing the car (if needed fixing or not, if it was not called "tuning") as often as a race to the pub or to the beach. Australian suburbia became a sea of cars, with attached car fanatics.
The next generation of cars included some true classics. The Holden Kingswood Torana and were growling respectively cars and a famous teenage hoon-mobile, although probably hoons cared more about the car than themselves. Kingswood has become the police car; the Torana became the car chase. These cars have become really liked, despite their social roles.
stuck with his Ford Falcon 1959 database design This American design was intended to be a competitor with Holden, who was at that time dominating the Australian market, and the Falcons were the first cars to really challenge that dominance. The original Falcons were quite large cars, and looked good. They were never quite the cultural icons that contemporary Holdens were, until the GT series, a real "muscle cars" and they were also racing cars.
From the arrival of a real competitor before the competition was HOLDEN Ford, and he never stopped. A thousand new brands have come on the road since, but at least they had some power under the hood, they were hardly noticed by the culture of the Australian automotive. Some European cars, people including Jaguar E-type, the RX 7 and the XJS, took sit up and take notice, but they are not quite the traditional image of the culture of commuter car.
Since the time the Commodores and Fairlanes, Hyundais, Mitsubishis and other cars have "diluted" the culture of pure Australian car, but never really changed as a social phenomenon. It is a pretty safe bet that as long as people in Australia talking car repair and everything about cars, "car culture" will always be with us.
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