We all know the VT commodore was a smashing success in sales whilst Ford could barely move an AU Falcon back then.

But today if you read the ford forums they keep saying the AU Falcon has since aged much better than the VT commodore and that they are ultra reliable cars and their drivetrains are better???? They go on to slag the VT saying it looks very tired? Are these people a little weird? (or more likely people who were tricked into buying one now talking them up to offload them)

The AU is no doubt the ugliest falcon ever built and this was reinforced by how good the VT commodore looked. It was like that back then and still is that way today.

Further the Ecotec V6/Supercharged V6 easily accounted for the ford i6/XR6 engine.. The LS1 pounded every version of the windsor V8 they ever tried to release.

What have they got to stand on? looks its a no contest, performance its a no contest, interior its a no contest. Its a TKO every which way you look at it.

Do we agree or did the sales charts lie back then and the AU was the better car?