2015 Ford Everest review | first drive - Cars Guide
The new Ford Everest is not just a new 4WD, it's the sign of things to come from Ford Australia's design and engineering base. The new Ford Everest was designed from a blank piece of paper in a styling studio just metres from the historic Broadmeadows production line that will fall silent after 56 years in October 2016. The seven-seat four-wheel-drive was torture-tested... More than 1200 Australian designers and engineers -- most of them based locally but many of them posted as far away as Sweden, Mexico, Detroit and Turkey -- helped bring it to life over the past four years. The Everest won't be assembled here for the same well-documented reasons Holden and Toyota will follow Ford and shut their Australian car factories in 2017. It's too expensive to make cars in Australia because of our high labour and energy costs,... It's a little known fact Ford Australia considered building the Everest SUV and the Ranger ute in place of the Falcon and Territory, but the numbers still did not add up. So this, then, is Australia's first foray into the brave new automotive world. It's also the reason Ford freighted Australian media to Thailand last week, to sample it on 'home' soil. Source: www.carsguide.com.au
