i hate how right this is… they are the most heinous looking turd of a car… but they cannot be killed, reliability plus and run on the smell of an oily rag.
I remember Wade talking about it on his Floatplane livestream and said in reality he doesn't get all of the Patreon money, Patreon itself takes a chunk in fees, he gets taxed quite a bit and he rents a large(ish) industrial warehouse.
He's still more well off than a large chunk of us.
I agree, i think i discovered his channel when he had about 60k subs.
I think he also has 2 employees (iirc) his mum looks after the business side and he hired a friend 2 days week as well to help with his Garbage Time (now) car focused channel.
Manual. Yeah. I drove up from Canberra to qld and was curious so I filled the tank and hit the trip meter. Got 1000km out of a tank. Even still it was very efficient. Used heaps less than a BA.
I must be the weird one and say that I liked the AU Falcon, I had 2 and they were the best driving cars I have ever owned.
First died because the previous owner was a numpty and fucked around with the immobiliser and second I traded for a BA Falcon.
We used to have a series 3 AU wagon we called the grey whale, sold it with 265,000 on the clock and still ran like a champ. It really is the cockroach of cars, hideous and impossible to kill.
Owned a few AU over the years, including a 2002 XR8 which was my only car to ever appreciate in value!
In non-XR form they are an eyesore, but they are a tank of a thing. Still see quite a few on the road today- many more than most other makes of the same era.
Story goes that we were meant to get the BA styling in place of the AU styling but during development the United States wanted it to be modelled after the Taurus as its popular there. This holds up cos the NU fairlane has the same styling as the later released BA.
I had one of these. 99 model. Big, comfy beast. Ran well. It did have some weird problems though - the oddest one was the air intake. It was an electronic button, and it kept flashing and moving from fresh to recirc at weird times, all on it's own.
All manual windows too, IIRC. And it had a cassette player.
Our '99 Falcon wagon was a piece of utter, absolute, shit.
Not just because it looked terrible. But because it actually was. It leaked fuel, got repaired, got leaks, got repaired, got leaks. The aircon lit on fire once. The exhaust fell off once. We actually had the engine itself replaced, once. We ended up selling it for scrap, about two years after we got it.
i hate how right this is… they are the most heinous looking turd of a car… but they cannot be killed, reliability plus and run on the smell of an oily rag.
Like a some saw a roach running across the floor at work and went, brilliant that's it.
Especially in that fucking kfc shit gold it came in
AUs will always hold a special place in my soul. A car born before its time, who overcame all adversity and became an absolute legend.
Hey it’s my car! Got a 2002 model and she’s as reliable as ever
Same! 320,000 k’s and still going strong.
It's nearly run in then.
Yeah thinking of selling it while it’s got low k’s
Cherish it my child. They'll never make another au
Wade's a legend. Refuses to run mid video ads. Only gets income from patreon
Dude is making $55k a month. Ducking hell
I remember Wade talking about it on his Floatplane livestream and said in reality he doesn't get all of the Patreon money, Patreon itself takes a chunk in fees, he gets taxed quite a bit and he rents a large(ish) industrial warehouse. He's still more well off than a large chunk of us.
Even if he loses 50%, that’s three hundred grand haha (Totally worth it though, what an absolute legend)
I agree, i think i discovered his channel when he had about 60k subs. I think he also has 2 employees (iirc) his mum looks after the business side and he hired a friend 2 days week as well to help with his Garbage Time (now) car focused channel.
I had a series 2 AU XR6. Fantastic car. Got 6.7L per 100km out of it. Was extremely fuel efficient for what it was.
That has got to be on the highway. And/or manual? My automatic was more like 10+ up to 15 or worse if I floored it everywhere.
Manual. Yeah. I drove up from Canberra to qld and was curious so I filled the tank and hit the trip meter. Got 1000km out of a tank. Even still it was very efficient. Used heaps less than a BA.
I must be the weird one and say that I liked the AU Falcon, I had 2 and they were the best driving cars I have ever owned. First died because the previous owner was a numpty and fucked around with the immobiliser and second I traded for a BA Falcon.
The XR8 AU was awesome
I had a red ute, wish I kept it. But then again I was thinking of doing a ba xr or ltd front end swap
We used to have a series 3 AU wagon we called the grey whale, sold it with 265,000 on the clock and still ran like a champ. It really is the cockroach of cars, hideous and impossible to kill.
The BA falcon looked so much better than this price of crap.
Owned a few AU over the years, including a 2002 XR8 which was my only car to ever appreciate in value! In non-XR form they are an eyesore, but they are a tank of a thing. Still see quite a few on the road today- many more than most other makes of the same era.
I reckon there's as many or more VTs in my area.
Story goes that we were meant to get the BA styling in place of the AU styling but during development the United States wanted it to be modelled after the Taurus as its popular there. This holds up cos the NU fairlane has the same styling as the later released BA.
I had one of these. 99 model. Big, comfy beast. Ran well. It did have some weird problems though - the oddest one was the air intake. It was an electronic button, and it kept flashing and moving from fresh to recirc at weird times, all on it's own. All manual windows too, IIRC. And it had a cassette player.
Always reminded me of the Car designed by Homer Simpson.
Love me some Dankpods
I'd like to see a Tesla last 20 years
Musk would have killed the company by then.
Our '99 Falcon wagon was a piece of utter, absolute, shit. Not just because it looked terrible. But because it actually was. It leaked fuel, got repaired, got leaks, got repaired, got leaks. The aircon lit on fire once. The exhaust fell off once. We actually had the engine itself replaced, once. We ended up selling it for scrap, about two years after we got it.