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New Ford Falcon
#1
Next Ford Falcon will be less 'Australian'
Posted Sep 24th 2008 9:27AM by Chris Shunk
Filed under: Sedans/Saloons, Ford, Australia

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The Ford Falcon is all Australian. It has always been driven by the rear wheels, and it has always been designed, engineered, and built Down Under. The automotive world is rapidly changing, though, and Ford is one of many OEMs that are driving towards global vehicle architectures and a less diversified corporate parts bin. What does that mean for the Falcon? Nothing for quite a while, as the once hot-selling Aussie special just received major rework in April, and another redesign is many years away. When it does go under the engineering knife it will likely have more in common with the Ford Taurus than anything native to the Outback.

Ford product chief Derrick Kuzak is working towards what the Blue Oval calls "One Ford." That means, for example, that there will be only one C-segment platform for like-sized crossovers, wagons, hatchbacks, coupes, and sedans, and that platform would be used in all regions around the globe. Ford will still have a rear-drive platform for performance vehicles, but the rabid push for fuel efficiency and weight reductions means that the chance of future Falcons being motivated by the rear wheels is slim. Plenty can change between now and 2015, so we'll keep our dimming hopes for a RWD Falcon for all alive, but the prospects look less rosy by the day.
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#2
now thats a sexy car
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#3
Front bumper looks too busy/ugly to me.
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Oscar The Grouch,Sep 24 2008, 03:49 PM Wrote:Front bumper looks too busy/ugly to me.
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Ya that two tone looks like sh#t. One colour would help out a lot.
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Canadian ST,Sep 24 2008, 04:17 PM Wrote:
Oscar The Grouch,Sep 24 2008, 03:49 PM Wrote:Front bumper looks too busy/ugly to me.
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Ya that two tone looks like sh#t. One colour would help out a lot.
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that two tone is not bad on the 4 colours it's offered in, it's only on the FTS, or FRS versions of the sedan.. more or less the high end performace version of the Falcon.
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#6
Looks like the 2010 Taurus .............. :ph34r:
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#7
I kinda like it... it's almost the "anything's better than the watered-down North American crap" mindset for me, I guess.
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#8
Bring Back The SHO

Hey we might not be to far off from the falcon check out the possible SHO
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#9
I like it, kind of has the acura TL look to it.
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Flofocus,Sep 25 2008, 02:50 PM Wrote:I like it, kind of has the acura TL look to it.
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I like it too [/irish accent] ... but I don't get the two-door thing ... there are no plans for a 2-door new-gen Taurus and there never was a 2-door SHO. With the upcoming twin-turbo 3.5 a new SHO could be very doable.
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ZTWsquared,Sep 25 2008, 10:03 PM Wrote:
Flofocus,Sep 25 2008, 02:50 PM Wrote:I like it, kind of has the acura TL look to it.
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I like it too [/irish accent] ... but I don't get the two-door thing ... there are no plans for a 2-door new-gen Taurus and there never was a 2-door SHO. With the upcoming twin-turbo 3.5 a new SHO could be very doable.
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Yah I think the two door looks like..well..weird. It does look mean as hell though. The new SHO Vs the G8 would be a bad ass fight.
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