Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "Ed's Auto Reviews" channel.

  1. Pleeeeeaaaaassssseeeee no Part 2! Spare us the indignity of having to watch any more of these automobile excesses.
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  2. What they SHOULD HAVE DONE was base their cars on the Australian Holden FE, FC and FB models of 1955 to 1959, by simply adapting them to left-hand-drive but changing NOTHING ELSE and marketing them as Holden FE, FC and FB models in the USA and Canada.
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  3. 10:15 This over-stretched limo is SO TYPICAL of Ugly ostentation that we see from America! The car is stretched to an OBSCENE length and should be BARRED from registration and BANNED FROM ALL ROADS, EVERYWHERE!
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  4. General Motors/Holden launched its first model in 1948, simply designated the 48-215 with the numbers referring to make year(1948) and engine capacity in cubic inches(215). After that, the successive models had simple two-letter designations, FJ, FE, FC, FB, EK, EJ, EH(a story attaches itself here), HR, HD and so on with only "Special" or "Premiere" attached. It wasn't until the late 1960s that names like Torana, Monaro, Kingswood(Ted Bullpitt's favourite car), Commodore, Gemini, etc. were given to the cars. As for the EH, it came about when the GM/H Chairman put the question to the bored...er... board as to how they were going to designate their new model. One smallish fellow who was a bit hard of hearing, sitting at the other end of the table, put his hand up to his ear and said: "EH, what'd you say?" LOL🤣
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  5.  @21stcenturyozman20  Well, the 215 had to mean something!
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  6. In Australia we never heard of this utterly PRETENTIOUS "Brougham" bullshit!
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  7. America's General Motors in 1958 - Obscene Ostentation! Thankfully Britain's GM Vauxhall and Australia's GM Holden kept things modest and understated, sober and sincere to counter that obscenity which is American GM. Our Australian and British cars were built with a solid attitude of SUBSTANCE BEFORE STYLE!
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  8.  @michaelbenardo5695  Your cars were a symbol of arrogance and bombast, nothing to be proud of.
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  9. That Lincoln Continental is so typical of American cars, it looks UTTERLY STUPID! I'd be ashamed to be seen anywhere near it. The BEST place for a Lincoln, or ANY American-built car, for that matter, regardless of brand, is shoved off the nearest cliff!
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  10.  @captlazer5509  I'm looking to get a Holden Commodore station wagon as my next car. Ladas are Russian SHIT and considering Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, ALL RUSSIAN PRODUCT SHOULD BE BANNED FROM MARKETS OUTSIDE RUSSIA, AND RUSSIA'S RUBLE(currency) SHOULD HAVE ZERO VALUE OUTSIDE RUSSIA!
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  11.  @georgemckenna462  What's tha6t got to do with cars built flimsy to follow as style over substance philosophy? Any car built OUTSIDE the USA(except French cars) will always be A MILLION TIMES SUPERIOR to American-built cars.
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  12.  @georgemckenna462  Not for cars built OUTSIDE the USA. That level of superiority over American cars is modest. Even those cars built outside the USA but carrying American brands can still be a million times superior to those built by the American "parent company(excluding French-built cars) becaus cars built outside the USA are built to emphasise substance over style.
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  13. China NEVER respected copyright law, and still doesn't. It's why China should be SHUT OUT of international trade and commerce AT ALL LEVELS!
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  14. 1:30 And this is something Australian car designers avoided like the plague! As Holden got into automobile making in 1948, its first model, the 48-215 was very basic in its design and was only tarted up to a minimal degree in the follow-up model, the FJ. And through successive models, FE, FC, FB, EK, EJ and EH(the first to have auto gears as optional), Holdens were built for Substance Over Style IN SPITE of being an American-owned company. Of Ford's Australian-built cars, the first Falcon was a disaster as it was likely built in "clueless" America but in right-hand-drive for Australia, those first American-built cars were substance over style and fell apart on Australian suburban streets. The Ford name came to mean "Fix Or Repair Daily" in Australia. We did see some of the Chrysler models here that were American-designed but latter Chrysler models were designed and built in Australia because we Aussies rejected the stupid, ostentatious "style-over-substance" shallow approach to car design favoured by the Yanks.
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  15. 13:43 The ONLY electronics that really should be in a car is the Stereo System(AM/FM radio and CD player). NOTHING ELSE!!!
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  16. Not GM Suisse, rather GM Schweiz! (8:00)
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  17.  @dr.orange6509  M & M, ay? I guess they turn out chocolate-covered cars! 🤣🤣🤣
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  18. The word "Turbine" should rhyme with "Fine", "Wine", "Mine" etc. You keep saying "Turban" which is a headdress for a member of the Sikh community.
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  19.  @sandervanderkammen9230  To hell with France, The word is spelled "T-u-r-b-i-n-e" and thus rhymes with "fine", "mine", "wine", etc.
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  20.  @sandervanderkammen9230  No, it's your Dutch accent getting in the way. The word is spelled TURBINE and is meant to rhyme with Wine, Fine, Dine, Mine, etc.
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  21.  @John-tx1wk  The 'ine" in Turbine rhymes with "fine" but in Magazine rhymes with "sheen". It's a peculiarity of English, I know, but that's how it is.
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  22.  @sandervanderkammen9230  I'M NOT BRITISH! I'm AUSTRALIAN!!!
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  23.  @sandervanderkammen9230  We speak English better than the British do, nearly all of the time.
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  24.  @sandervanderkammen9230  To hell with you! I'm Australian and our accent is the most TRULY EGALITARIAN of ALL accents of spoken English! Our accent is the same from North to South(Darwin to Adelaide) and from East to West(Sydney to Perth). Can you say the same of yours, in English or Dutch?
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  25. 10:45 Aluminium Yes, you got that right! Al-U-Mini-Um!
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  26. 2:51 Not "Oppertunity" but Opportunity! Hey Ed, go get yourself a good dictionary, an Oxford English Dictionary, that is. Don't waste money on that Noah Webster rubbish.
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  27. @Connor Arroyo Noah Webster corrupted the spelling of the English language. That's why I ALWAYS say "Get an Oxford English Dictionary!" It is like "going directly to the source of the English Language.
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  28.  @MarinCipollina  American English is a corruption of the language. It is the uneducated poor cousin of the language that we Australians, our neighbours in New Zealand and your neighbours in Canada inherited from ENGLAND!
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  29. You've made a spelling error (0:21) the word is Definition, D-E-F-I-N-I-T-I-O-N.
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  30. 8:37 Le Sabre - Bloody good thing this piece of UTTER SHITE never got to Australia! It would be deemed unroadworthy and unregisterable under Australia's very high automobile standards.
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  31. They're NOT Hood ornaments, they're BONNET ORNAMENTS! And the rear luggage compartment is the BOOT! @Ed, STOP USING YANK TERMS FOR CAR PARTS! Instead, follow the BRITISH influence!
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  32. 6:53 ""Gimmicks!".......... "GIMMICKS!!!!!*........... *UGH!!!!! Get outta here with those STUPID F^^^Witted Gimmicks!!!!!
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  33.  @OntarioTrafficMan  Bad education!
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  34. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr................ The idea of an Antarctic car industry leaves me "cold"!
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  35. The only REAL quality in cars came from Holden, Vauxhall and Opel, GM's "international" marques. The domestic American brands were rubbish by comparison. Too much emphasis on the gaudy ostentation.
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  36.  @dehman8174  The word "Petrol" is derived from Petroleum and is NOT a brand-name. But I cannot take you seriously as your writing is full of first-grade primary school misspellings and possessive case("your") instead of accusative("you're") which destroys your credibility.
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  37.  @dehman8174  Petrol(from Petroleum); the liquid - Gas; the vapour.
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  38.  @MarinCipollina  In spoken English, and in written English, the British Version is standard. Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland & Wales(the last-named three also have their own Gaelic languages), English-speakers in Europe and Asia, all learn to speak British English. Even Canada tries to avoid the inferior American version where and when they can. America stands alone and friendless in the English-speaking world as it has done so much to corrupt the language it has inherited from England.
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  39.  @kutter_ttl6786  As a single word it is stupid and infantile.
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  40. 6:00 Look at those UTTERLY STUPID dancing routines! UGH!!! If I were in the market for a car back then, I'd hop on a plane and come to Australia to buy a Holden rather than waste money on ANY Yank-Tank!
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  41. 1:06 Not "Timeframe" but TIMELINE! Time is NOT 3-dimensional!, it has no height, depth or width. It is merely linear, from one second, minute, hour, day, etc. to the next second, minute, hour, day, etc.
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  42. 4:35 In Australia, a 1989 Toyota Camry would also be marketed as a Holden Apollo, the only change made is to the brand-name. Everything else is EXACTLY THE SAME from the Holden to the Toyota. Also, a 1985 Mazda 323 will also appear as a Ford Meteor from the same year. Between the Ford Meteor and the Mazda 323, only the brand is different. Mazda also did their 323 as a hatchback in place of a boot lid. Ford took the Hatchback version and branded it as a "Laser" without altering anything about the car except to stick a Ford badge on it.
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  43. Australia's Holden 48-215 and FJ were very basic models so they could be deemed generic.
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  44. American cars were always WAY TOO OSTENTATIOUS! It took British and Australian car designers to "tone down" the American excess and produce more sober, sensible designs for American brand names.
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  45.  @petersargeant1555  It wasn't the Model 'T', it was the later model 'A' that was modified.
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  46.  @A_Haunted_Pancake  Nothing wrong with Public education! It's the pricks who go to private schools who think they're better than everyone else!
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  47.  @johnwitkowski8462  Even when the Yanks had nothing to do with creating a device or whatever, they'll still steal the credit for it.
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  48.  @StephenGallaherNZ  The idea was Australian! The first prototype "Utes" were built HERE IN AUSTRALIA! You Americans just can't stand any other country being first with ANYTHING!
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  49.  @gilesflower  By the Strictest definition, they WERE utes. The word "Ute" was coined in Australia as short for "Utility". This type of vehicle was Aussie-invented and Aussie-conceived! We invented it so WE GET TO NAME IT!
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  50.  @na3044  No! We stick with the name Ute as we Aussies named them because WE INVENTED THIS TYPE OF VEHICLE!!!
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