2015 Ford Territory Review
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The Ford Territory is Australia’s only locally designed and built SUV - and the latest model Ford Territory has just been released. Production will cease in 2016 when the Ford factory closes for ever - the badge might continue, but the Australian Ford Territory will die. Should you rush out and buy one? Predictably enough, Ford says the new SZ Mark II Territory is a winner, but the reality is, Territory sales went into free-fall in 2014, and in response they’ve slashed the price. It’s desperation stuff. The truth is, the Ford Territory is a train wreck. So if you’re thinking about buying a ticket and jumping on board, think again. The new Ford Territory has been part of the motoring landscape in Australia since 2004. Back then, it was a good - albeit thirsty - vehicle. Unfortunately, though, Ford has done the absolute bare minimum to it, over 10 years, while the rest of the market has sprinted competitively ahead. This is perhaps understandable: the Ford factory in Broadmeadows was bleeding money hand over fist, the global financial crisis hit, and Ford had to unload Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar and Aston Martin at desperation-sale prices just to avoid bankruptcy. Ford also enacted its One Ford policy, essentially the death sentence for local manufacturing. It wasn’t too hard to join the dots, as early as 2011. Against this turbulent backdrop, senior Ford management in Dearborn was hardly in a position to send a shipping container full of Greenbacks Down Under, with strict instructions to go nuts on R&D with the Ford Territory. As a consumer proposition, the later half of the Ford Territory’s life cycle screams ‘too little, too late’. That’s just how it is. Exhibit A: The engines. The inline six was making 184kW @ 5000rpm back in 2004. Fast-forward a decade and it’s pumping out 195kW @ 6000rpm: That’s 20 per cent more revs for just 7 per cent more power. If you know anything about engineering, that’s an example of going backwards. Spinning an engine faster to derive an impractical increase in power is something you only ever do for the press release, not something you do to benefit consumers. Compare a Mazda3 2.0-litre engine over the same period. From 2004-2014 it jumped 10 per cent in power, and manages to deliver it at 8 per cent fewer revs - with a 34 per cent drop in fuel consumption. That’s progress. To be fair, Ford Territory has gained some fuel efficiency as well - 22 per cent better. It’s gone from from atrocious to just awful. A V6 Kluger makes more power, but less torque, with half a litre less engine, and the same approximate economy. And then there’s the diesel. It took seven long years to fit that diesel engine to a Territory and stifle all those high fuel consumption criticisms, by which time that diesel engine was a geriatric - ready for the zimmer frame and the nursing home. It’s a 2.7, and today, Hyundai/Kia manages to deliver the same engine outputs with a 2.2. When the South Koreans stick that engine in a Santa Fe or Sorento - direct Territory competitors - it’s also 17 per cent more fuel efficient. The Ford Territory is one of the Australian car market's long-term lemons. Sadly.
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you make some convincing points its a shame you come across so condescending
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you sir are an idiot. paid by holden much.....
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"Australia's design an build here" that's our car!!! But its ugly a cheaper versión of the Explorer so you guys could keep it. (America)
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Wouldn't a 2012 ford Territory titanium be a good purchase at under 25k thanks to the price crash.. Seems there isn't much under 25k with leather, satnav, reverse camera, DVD player etc.. The Santa fe is more 30k or so.. Perhaps a captiva? Any suggestions for 25k max for a 7 seater with the things I listed? (also under 150ks and no older then say 2010) cheers!
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also Ford suplied engines to hitler for ww2 and Henry Ford had hitlers picture on his office desk, so u want to promote nazzi collaboration than buy Ford :)
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also Ford suplied engines to hitler for ww2 and Henry Ford had hitlers picture on his office desk, so u want to promote nazzi collaboration than buy Ford :)
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Videos like this contributed to the the demise of local jobs. Well done mate. Continue with your love affair of Korean crap
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Ford had pathetic management..... They had the opportunity to produce world class cars
but never delivered.... stubbornness and stupidity all rolled into one. -
This is what we can expect now that shitty Fords are no longer built here , so other shitty Fords will all be imported. Short video very funny and informative: https://youtu.be/Nnwpa4eP8GI
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I hear what you're saying, but I thought this was supposed to be a review of the CAR, not a philosophical opinion piece about the company and it's failings. To be honest, when people are in the market for a car, all they really want to know is if the car is GOOD and if it will do what they want it to do well.
Whilst everything you are saying is true, I'd be very surprised if this video actually helped anyone at all.
Can we please just get a review on the car and how it performs, and not just a bitch fest about the engine being older and bigger than you think it should be. -
auto "expert"
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We have a 2011 diesel all our bushes need replacing and a shock plus we had to put in a new electric steer assistance in as they don't have a power steering pump $3000 later just for the part and to fix everything else is $5000 so I would not buy another one and this is our 2nd on we had an 04 b4 hand and all bushes went in it aswell so did ball joints
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fiddler on the roof
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he sucks there dicks
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Thanks for the fine words you have about the Ford Territory... We bought a used one from a car yard (Atom Motors) on Parra Road only to be ripped off to the hill. this was a 2005 Ghia 7 seater with all options, we paid $14k cash last year and it only had 170k on the clock. on the test drive we noticed the service light was on so I questioned it and 2 hour later they get back to us and said it was just a faulty coil pack. we bought it and took it home that day so to give a good clean as we had it booked with us for a TAS holiday 2 weeks after buying it. the next day we noticed a rear oil leak, rear wiper didn't work and the cruse control didn't work and so we contacted them only to be told to return it to them and we had to wait until they find the time to repair. a week and a half went by and no contact by them so i phoned them and demanded my car back as i needed it to pack ready for our trip, upon picking it up i noticed it was trashed inside, dirt and rubbish everywhere and had been driven about 100km, they told me the cruse control worked fine and if im willing to go half they might let someone else look at the wiper.... WHAT A JOKE.... on out trip we also found out the roof DVD player didn't work, in dash 6 stacker didn't work, Hatch rear door lock was playing up, battery was shot but because we drove it for our holiday and went over to 180K on the clock, they said stiff shit no warranty. ACCC said all they had to fix was the first things mentioned and well...... we still own the car today, its sitting at home, wont start, I got one of those little computer code readers and its telling me the DriveTrain faulty, Sensors in the front wheels are also shot. still no CD player and i removed it the other week only to find out it was pulled apart and stripped inside. And i still have no rear wiper.... Ford Territory is nothing other then a SHIT BOX..
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Very good John. I sometimes like to go a little retro and watch your reviews. I liked this one. I have previously commented that the death of the Australian car is purely due to component outsourcing.
Ford and Holden for example designed cars and found the cheapest company to supply them parts. This included little things like the audio system switches on the steering wheel to diffs.They assemble shit components to make it look like an attractive show piece.
I am not against outsourcing at all but Australian cars became a cluster fuck of cheap materials.
The Airbus A380 is made the same way, the components are made world wide and assembled in Toulouse. This may be a bad example but not one has crashed yet. Except the near one with Qantas due to a Rolls Royce machining fuck up but that's another story. It's only another product with a name on it that has to work and has to last. It has a badge, Airbus, this has to reflect reliability and trust.
Car manufactures don't give a fuck.
My point is this. This year being 2016 we will be inundated with re-badged American and Pommy heap of shits made to last 5 years. I'm sure you know many engines now have plastic components.
A Holden, eh...... I mean a Vauxhall, Viva 4 cyl engine has a plastic timing belt idler/tensioner? What the fuck? Plastic???? This component has a stressful job.
Pure redundancy design is at work here. I saw the result of a failure. The bearing failed, melted the idler spraying molten plastic everywhere. The valves and pistons did not survive of course. No need to bore you with those details. When I removed the head I had to close my eyes. Needless to say the engine was irreparable. Luckily it wasn't my car, I was doing a friend a favour. This happened after a massive 180,000 km being driven to church only on Sundays. It had previously had a belt replacement at the recommended time.
Let us all standup and applaud the future of car manufacturing and give special applause the Australian dealers who will sell cars that are manufactured in places that cannot be found on Google Earth with a corporate sticker and badges that make you feel good because they are shiny feel local.
Bring some lube and bend over.
Thank you for letting me vent my spleen. -
does ford territory diesel got timings belt or timing chain ???
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I feel like this is the most twisted review I've ever seen on youtube. In regard to power I agree it hasn't improved significantly, but why would it? When you look at rivals such as the Mazda CX5 which produces 114KW, or even a 2016 BMW X5 which produces 170kw, it would appear the territory was producing 81KW more power 2 years earlier on the mazda and 25KW more on the BMW. Not to mention the ford straight 6 has proven itself over time in the falcon to be an almost unbreakable motor.
In regard to the gearbox like anything mechanical if you push it to it's limits everyday yes it will struggle, but comparing the same vehicles again you're comparing a car that 2 years ago could do 2.3 tonne, compared to the mazda towing 1.8 tonne today. -
John, I like your reviews but seriously put a beanie on and where some sunnies. You have a head only a mother could love.
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