Ford vs Holden

[stonedpirate]

Hello

The following may sound extremely naive and ignorant but just curious what other peoples thoughts are on this subject.

Basically, Australia is known for its holden vs ford rivalry. I bought my near new falcon and every time i see a car full on bogans in a holden they want to drag me at the lights or tailgate me with a smug grin.

Anyway, i was drunk the other night and was discussing the ford vs holden thing with this pom.

During the conversation we think we cracked it.


At first we were like, its just a racing rivalry that starts on the track and spills over into mainstream society.

But at the end of the night we were like, its a scotland vs england thing just like most other "australian" rivalries.

We concluded on the above by looking at the following clues.

Henry Ford was a scottish rite freemason, the ford logo is blue and white, same as the st andrews flag of scotland.

Alexander Holden was an english migrant, holdens colours are red and white, st georges flag of englands colours with a lion rampant.

In the past, australia was settled my the english who set up australias structure and imported scottish slaves to build the roads and do all the work.

Workers typically buy fords and smug yuppy rich kids and pretty boys buy new holdens. Bogans buy whatever they can afford and dont really have any thought behind their choice beyond whatver they were raised with so dont really count.

So the whole holden vs ford thing is the same scotland vs england thing that has been going on since australias settlement.

Keep in mind we were drunk, i have no degree in history are rarely consider historical matters so the colours of the logos could just be a coincidence lol.