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    The vf is one great car,
    I have owned a lot of tuff streeters over a 30 year period both holden and fords
    I can honestly say the vf gts I own is the best car I have ever owned!
    The heads up display is a cool thing!
    I have owned it for a while now build no 182 but my hart pumps still every time I jump in it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by HJRAY View Post
    The vf is one great car,
    I have owned a lot of tuff streeters over a 30 year period both holden and fords
    I can honestly say the vf gts I own is the best car I have ever owned!
    The heads up display is a cool thing!
    I have owned it for a while now build no 182 but my hart pumps still every time I jump in it!
    Lucky fella.....i have a real soft spot for the GTS...looks like one hell of a fun car to drive

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    Quote Originally Posted by HJRAY View Post
    The vf is one great car,
    I have owned a lot of tuff streeters over a 30 year period both holden and fords
    I can honestly say the vf gts I own is the best car I have ever owned!
    The heads up display is a cool thing!
    I have owned it for a while now build no 182 but my hart pumps still every time I jump in it!
    Got a pic? Mate of mine has a White one. Haven't seen it in the flesh yet but I'm keen to park it next to my Palais White HZ GTS for a family photo.

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    HJRAY, i have similar gadgets in my VF Calais V and i have found an interesting quirk with the voice command system. I have an Android phone and when i use the voice system to make a phone call, i have found that the more i try and articulate my words, the worse it recognises me. If i speak naturally as an Aussie (bastardised English and run my words together badly) it recognises my command every single time! Do you have any electronic quirks in yours?

    The heads up display and the orange blind spot lights on the wing mirrors are awesome!!!!!!!
    Last edited by damienengland; 25-02-2015 at 11:23 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by damienengland View Post
    HJRAY, i have similar gadgets in my VF Calais V and i have found an interesting quirk with the voice command system. I have an Android phone and when i use the voice system to make a phone call, i have found that the more i try and articulate my words, the worse it recognises me. If i speak naturally as an Aussie (bastardised English and run my words together badly) it recognises my command every single time! Do you have any electronic quirks in yours?
    Thats interesting to hear. I read an article a while back, (or maybe it was a video peice, cant remember) about how GM and Holden had put in heaps of work to get voice system to recognise the Aussie accent for the VF, apparantly the Australian lingo is so broad, and has so many varients in the way it's spoken, and changes when spoken in urgency or in a relaxed fashion it makes voice recognition by a computer program much more difficult than English used in other countries. I think I saw two articles on this actually, from memory the other one did not involve Holden but was explaining the same thing. (Although you'd have to think Scottish would be more of a challenge - lol)

    Anyway apparantly a comprehensive Australian accent had never been effectively managed by any software prior to the VF voice recognisation system, Devereux and the design team insisted it had to work perfectly for all Australian dialects and was considered to have a safety aspect, and, as it would would be used in the future by any GM product sold here they convinced GM and spent heaps of time working to adapt the system/program to work effectively with the Australian accent. So thats pretty cool if it really is true.

    Interesting you find it doesn't do it if you articulate properly, maybe the computer can only store so much data sampling. I wonder what happens if you reallly strech it and mimic Prince Charles or something, or try an American accent... how's your southern drawl? (lol) Actually seriously I'm interested to know. Give it a go?

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