Talk:Ford Fairmont

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Contents 1 Anyone want to split this up? 2 Compact? No. 3 What to do with the various markets? 4 Misinformation in info box 5 Mexican Model

[edit] Anyone want to split this up?

I'm wondering if anyone's in favor of splitting up this article into two separate articles, one for the Australian model and another for the North American model. If it worked for the Ford Escort article, it'd work for this, right? --ApolloBoy 21:53, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Might be an idea. There's not much info here for the Australian Fairmont to begin with though. Would that get moved to the Australian Falcon page then? --Sable232 03:01, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Compact? No.

In the United States, the Ford Fairmont was an all-new, rear wheel drive compact car introduced in the North American market for 1978 and sold through 1983.

I have a sedan model. It's not compact in any sense. --65.135.146.150 08:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

The Pinto was subcompact, the Granada was midsize, the LTD was fullsize. Now where does that leave the Fairmont??

Now, by modern standards it probably isn't "compact," but it was in 1978. --Sable232 01:11, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What to do with the various markets?

How are we going to do this? The American Fairmont was a compact car and it's own model. The Australian-market car has always been an uplevel Falcon. Should the AU Fairmont information be merged to Ford Falcon? Should it be split into a new page? --Sable232 16:08, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Misinformation in info box

No source I've ever seen (and I have possession of quite a few) has ever listed the 351 V8 as a factory option for the Fairmont. Street machine builders, of course, can verify that it fits easily if needed, but Ford never saw fit to do it themselves. If it can be verified, fine; otherwise I don't want to tag it outright for just the one little note.

Biggest engine I know of in any stock Fairmont is the 302 V8, and even then most Fairmonts I've ever witnessed carry a six-cylinder. (Except the beige Futura once owned by my parents, which had the impressively lethargic four-cylinder.) Duncan1800 (talk) 09:46, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mexican Model

Once again I find that the model for the mexican market has the Mercury front end, Zephyr in this case, the four headlights at least, that is. (Just like the 1st gen. Taurus has the sable front end... I wonder why??). Maybe this could be mentioned. (It was me all along, I just wasn't logged on, in case anyone wonders...) Alessandro Malfatti (talk) 22:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)