Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "furiousdriving" channel.

  1. The Port Melbourne Rootes assembly plant kept the prices down on these by avoiding import duties. So had a good market share. The later Chrysler takeover had them change to Mitsubishi cars after the Arrow and Hunter along with the Hustler performance version went out of production. The Avenger rejected by Chrysler here. Last Australian attempt to boost lagging Hillman sales with the Hillman Hustler , although Hillman not mentioned bin the ad for some reason : https://youtu.be/wM7iHdyWiJ8
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  2. Did the Australian Hillman Hustler come first with this name for their Rootes based stripper version : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuUw9sZx9iE&t=162s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuUw9sZx9iE&t=680s
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  3. At 3:00 you comment on the rarity of the swiveling quarter lights. The Australian Morris Minis, I think from 1965, had these as standard. Harder to sell a car in Australia then without quarter vents. The quarter vents were used to give extra air flow to the interior in the hope of coping with interior high temperatures without air-conditioning. Most people coped with this back then. As seen on these 1970 or so Morris Mini K 1100 Australian versions : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrLze3snhdo and this one taken to Canada by the owner : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGaUrgs_21M&t=140s
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  4. And the Peugeot 203, 403, 404 and 504 all sold well with N Australia. Even the Citroen ID 19 sold well enough to be assembled here., but the Fregate nearly unheard of here
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  5. About the P76 at 15:17. Not that monstrous a V8, just based on the Rover V8 out taken out to 4.4 litres. They were also planning a bigger 5.0 litre V8 version and a 3.3 litre V6 to better serve Australian preference for six cylinder motors, especially fleets such as government who would not purchase a V8. The Australian market found the 2.6 litre E series straight six lacking in reliability and torque. The bigger V8s more of a hero car and if that was not enough a V12 version was talked about for the planned Bathurst race coupes. Just sold for a short time before Leyland Australia collapsed due to issues common the the UK Leyland.
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  6. VW Australia , before this, developed built and sold the Australian VW country buggy. From the VW Clayton factory. Google it. Wikipedia has some good info.
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  7.  @Flaming-Hedgehog  I now see lots on YouTube as well. Not a success even though it was the cheapest new car in Australia on release.
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  8. Australia was very much in love with VWs arising from the fifties round Australia trials where VWs strength would beat much larger and more expensive cars. Local production had VW taking number two position over Ford in 1960, but that was a curse in disguise in that it delayed us getting uograded new models. We did get the type 3 and it sold better per head of population than anywhere else in the world, even though Australia really wanted a four door version. However by 1966 VW local models being so outdated had sales dive and local manufacturer peter out. With these upheavals we never got the tooling investment to locally make the 411 so judged too expensive to sell as an import. So never seen here.
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