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Remember the Madison?
Dick Axtell - 9/12/02 at 06:34 PM

Anybody remember the Madison? While heading out of Sydney along the Paramatta Road, I saw a clutch of what appeared to be brand new Madisons. In Oz, they're known as the "Bufori", and according to one source, there was an attempt to start production in Malaysia.

Check out www.bufori.com for more info.

[Edited on 13/12/02 by Dick Axtell]

chrisg - 9/12/02 at 09:52 PM

I had ago in one once at Newark, are they still VW Beetle based?

Cheers

Chris

Viper - 9/12/02 at 10:12 PM

Thought the Maddison was a dance. Jeeez how old do i feel.........

stephen_gusterson - 9/12/02 at 10:20 PM

I thought it was part of a song title by Kirsty MacColl.

atb

steve

bet your world is the richer for knowing this.

Dick Axtell - 10/12/02 at 08:28 AM

quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
I had ago in one once at Newark, are they still VW Beetle based?

Cheers

Chris


They seem to be Holden-based, although its not clear wha the base vehicle was in Malaysia. Could be some financial problems, from the sign on their gate.

philgregson - 12/12/02 at 01:36 PM

Just had a look at the bufori web site - Yuk!

interestedparty - 12/12/02 at 05:20 PM

IIRC the Madison started like as a VW based car, and was then developed to use a chassis designed to take Cortina mechanicals. Quite nice looking car (in the pics anyway, can't remember seeing one for real) probably based on a thirties USA roadster

John