Talk:Ford Fairmont

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Anyone want to split this up? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  What to do with the various markets? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Misinformation in info box 

message: According to a copy of the '81 Fairmont brochure, not all '81 Fairmont models had the four headlight front end treatment as stated in the article. 1981 was the first year for the Futura sedans and wagons, and these had the four headlights. For that year only, they were sold alongside the standard Fairmont which retained the old front end. The regular Fairmont was phased out for '82, leaving only the Futura coupe and sedans, with the four headlamps.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.15.176.3 (talk) 21:02, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Four Headlight Front End 

message: I owned a Ford Fairmont station wagon.  In the USA.  
http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/pictures/1980_Ford_Fairmont_2.jpg
It looked exactly like this.  Why isn't this mentioned in the article?  Can some expert shed some light on this? Gigs (talk) 16:01, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Station Wagon 

message: I would love to know the following kinds of info:  length (of each different model) wheelbase  width (again, if this differs with various bodystyles please I'd like to know!)  weight of the various Fairmont iterations.  This could be a great article with some more information. 24.215.246.126 (talk) 05:20, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs more info 

message: Tagging this as I have been doing to other rebadged cars. Even the first sentence in the design section of the Mercury Zephyr says it all: "The Mercury Zephyr shared most of its characteristics with the Ford Fairmont." Thoughts? Jgera5 (talk) 17:38, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Support as per Jgera5. OSX (talk • contributions) 01:00, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

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message: The text says the V6 was available through 1983, but the chart only shows it up to 1980.Jbw9999 (talk) 02:37, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  V6 in chart 

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message: I owned a Fairmont, which was purchased @1978. The strangest thing was that the horn was located on the turn signal lever/stick. To "blow the horn" you had to push the the lever inwards. This was not an intuitive way to sound the horn. I eventually became accustomed to it. However, if an unsuspecting person was driving, it was dangerous. On a long road trip, my cousin was sharing the driving, and we were almost sideswiped because he attempted to lay on the horn, by pressing the middle of the steering wheel, expecting my car to work like any other "normal" car. Scared both of us, and we cursed Ford for miles.
I wonder if there is any documentation for the reason Ford made this bizarre choice...or any documentation about this extremely poor design decision? My thanks, to anyone who reads this...Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 08:06, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird horn location