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Originally Posted by Dauphin

Detailed info about the Ford XW/XY Fairmont GT which was the Falcon GT exported to South Africa and changed a little.

http://www.aussiexport.com/sagt.htm

There's a slight GM parallel here.

History would suggest that South Africans (by comparison to us Aussies) were automotive snobs, after a fashion.

Apparently Holdens (badged as such), never met with much more than mediocre success over there. However, take that dirty Holden lion-with-his-paw-on-a-ball away and replace it with a Chevy bowtie - sales dearth solved, and how!

For whatever reason, the Chevrolet name held quite some cachet in South Africa, whereas, perceptibly (to them) Holden had none. Quite beside the point of course that many of the Chevys sold over there were merely Holdens with a different badge....

I'm guessing that Ford South Africa must have taken notice of all of this, hence our venerable Falcon GT being sold as the more upmarket Fairmont...