[Jim5_0]

I think that Falcon values will do pretty much what Valiant Values did.

The Valiant pretty much died the same tortured & undeserved death that the Falcon is currently enduring & their value was little more than scrap metal in the 1980's.

Try buying a cheap usable Valiant nowadays. All of the remaining examples are considered classic and commanding good dollars.

So yes I think that in 30 years time any Falcon even AU's will be worth a good $$ but for the next 10 or 15 years garden variety Falcons will be hard to give away.

When people say that if you only ever buy used cars you are not helping the manuacturer except by maybe buying the odd spare part from it's dealers they are very wrong.

If there is a strong demand for used Falcons for example then the used value stays comparitively high. Comparitively high used car values mean good depreciation rates. Good depreciation rates help to sell new cars of the same make and/or model so buying a used Falcon is actually helping Ford Australia.