PhantomUte

I would have to disagree with your comments about the beams at the drag strip. the beams at the strip at triggered by your front wheels, when you stage the vehicle and bring on the two bulbs on the christmas tree you are breaking the beam, as soon as you roll forward a fraction the beam breaks and the timing sequence starts, any difference in staging ie deep staging or short staging will only effect the et by a very small margin, around 0.001-5 of a second not a couple of tenths.

rotor mob in sydney..not melbourne

I paid 45,000 on road with leather seat, auto, towpack and phantom in jul 03

I believe it has a GT40 front with a small rear housing on it, I.e.GT35 (I heard the a/r on the exhaust side is .86). You have to be pretty naive if you believe that...the race rotary that I am involved with makes 651.1 rwhp at around 7000-7500 rpm, with peak revs of 9500. The thing has bucket loads of torque..

I think the recommended max tow weight from ford for an auto xr6t is only 1600kg, with a normal 6 or xr8 it can be up to 2400kg with a Heavy Duty Tow Kit. That aside, I have towed around 1900kg with my ute with no problems at all.

24 gold coast 65% NCB and just under $1,200 with NRMA, AAMI or Suncorp wouldn't insure me till I was 25, and even if I was 25 the quote was another 500-700 more

11km here

I was wondering if anyone else has this problem with the utes Mine is the same, I get down to 0 Km DTE and there is still about 10 litres left in the tank. The tanks are definatly 80l as I have put in 78l in it before.

Not sure if anyone has seen this yet, but it looks very sweet. Dam utes, why cant we have this....... Upgrade to Prestige Sound System

My main reason for getting a ute over the sedan was a pretty simple. By getting the ute I avoid FBT as the vehicle is deemed to be 100% work use, which makes it much much cheaper. the other reason is there is plenty of room to put tools, tyres, etc for the race car.

No just the straight lease from ford credit, its a ute as well so it is a bit cheaper then the sedans, which makes the leasing costs less. It was $45K on road, insurance isn't to bad its just under $1200/yr (I am 24 so I am very happy with this, most insurance companys wouldn't insure me till I am 25)

Novated lease, costs me $853 a month for 5 years with around $13k as the residual after tax it ends up costing about $103 per week or $446 a month

We only have a small car park but we have 1 XR6T ute (mine) 2002 WRX STI 2003 WRX STI 1994 GTR Skyline

Mine was at 0km on sunday night, sorry no photo as it was before the competition, I put 76l into the ute so there was a little over 4l left

Not driving yet, but I get my XR6T ute this week (should be tommorrow...) the options are: Phantom Leather Seats Tinted Windows Tow Pack Auto

So do you just give ford customer service on 13 36 73 and give them your sido to find out the status??

The dealers are saying that I will have it within the next two weeks.

I Just got my SIDO from the dealer, can anyone please tell me the url to go to to have a look at the photos, etc Thanks in advance

Does anyone have the url that you go to once you get your sido to have a look at the photos???

My ute should be here in 2 weeks, looks like they got it done really quick. I order it on the 17th of July..... What sort of wait is everyone else encountering??

I just got a fax from my dealer, my ute within 2 weeks. I ordered it on the 17th of July. Phantom Leather Seats Tow Pack Tinted Windows Auto

You got a good deal, I just bought one for the better half, its a black 3dr zetec, with tinted windows and mats, on road it was $30,255 in QLD, I only have a few critisisms with it 1. Not enough power/torque, it makes overtaking a bit off fun at 90, it seems to be much better overtaking from about 110 on, but from 90 to 110 its just a bit slow (our old car a 98 VTIr civic, had quite a lot more power and torque from a much smaller motor). 2. Mileage isn't as good as they quote in the books, the best we got was 7.4l/100km, the book quotes as either 6 or 6.5, this was using optimax and all highway driving (we stoped once at coffs on the drive from newcastle to the gold coast, filled up with 720km on the clock and had 3 ltrs left) Around town we are getting about 640km out of a tank. As of this morning we have 6,100km on the clock and we have had the car for 3 weeks (5,000km trip to melbourne/snow does that) We got a good trade in on our old car, they gave us another 3k more than any of the other ford dealers we went to, having said that so they should, we have bought both a focus and and xr6t ute at the same time....... I can't wait till we get the ute.

Previously my biggest issue with the Aussie built cars was the technology used in them (or lack there off) in comparisson to the Japanese/european built cars and "bang for your buck", The new BA seems to have overcome a lot of these worries, and appart from that I need a bigger car to tow my little race car that I recently bought.

I always swore that I would never buy a falcon or commodore, but today my order has been placed for an Phantom XR6T ute with leather seats, tinted windows and tow pack. The dealer is telling me I will have a 2 month wait, but I guess it will be more like 3-4 from what I have read here. I am getting an ok deal, is about $45,000 on road, another dealer was quoting me $47,500 so I am prety happy