<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Ford Falcon]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Ford Falcon]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/ford falcon http://jalopnik.com/tag/ford falcon <![CDATA[If Mad Max had a rally car]]> Much as we respect today's crop of four-wheel-drive, turbocharged, high-tech rally cars, there's something that's missing. That something is a massive V8 in a full-caged muscle car charging sideways through a forest. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5871304&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ford Falcon XT: Sigh...]]> A right-hand drive Ford Falcon XT loaded with test gizmos spotted on I-94 in Dearborn. Do want — even more than the 2011 Ford Ranger. Sigh. (Hat tip to Steve!) More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5663980&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ford Exec: "The Pontiac G8 Spoked Us"]]> Want a Ford Falcon? Tough. You're not getting one and it's all the Pontiac G8's fault. [GoAuto] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5654934&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Next Ford Falcon Could Share A Ride With The Mustang]]> After signs that it could be based on the front-wheel-drive Taurus platform (heresy!) or killed altogether, it looks like there could be a future for Australia's affordable rear-wheel-drive sedan after all. That future? The Mustang. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5653312&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Marrying Falcon Pinup Girl, On Vacation, Back Later]]> Why did I leave the Island That Rust Forgot for Denver last weekend? Cherchez la femme! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5561571&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1963 Ford Falcon Futura]]> Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. It turns out that the '81 Strada we just saw was an old DOTS car with new paint. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5555154&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[DOTS Cars Get New Paint, With Varying Degrees Of Success]]> Owners of various Alameda Down On The Street honorees sometimes contact us to let us know how their cars and trucks are doing. Lately, we've heard from a couple who have really spiffed up their rides. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5543293&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Caption This: This Is Not The Ford Falcon You're Looking For]]> This charming shot was an entry in our sister site Gizmodo's staged-scene photo contest. It was built using Photoshop, a scale model of a Star Wars sandtrooper, and a '65 Falcon. (For reference, Mos Eisley is that way. Move along.) More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5520951&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1964 Ford Falcon Futura]]> Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles on the the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Readers spotted an XR4Ti in photos of last week's DOTS R107, so I went back… and found this Falcon instead! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5507091&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ranchero Saved! Ford NOT Killing Falcon Ute]]> Early we cited a report stating the Ford Falcon was dying but the Ford Oceania team assured our pal Mike Levine of PickupTrucks.com the Falcon, and therefore the Ute, still has a long life ahead. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5446550&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[REPORT: Save The Rancheros! Ford May Kill Falcon Ute]]> We have Ford's new global platform strategy to thank for the awesome Focus and Fiesta, but the drive to simplify its worldwide product lineup could have an unexpected downside. It could kill Australia's Falcon Ute. Oh noes! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5446208&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Chaparrals In Nevada, Toranas In New South Wales: Stardust Grand Prix '66, Bathurst '75!]]> Scroggs just keeps finding us the great vintage racing videos! How about the final race in Can Am's first season, followed by the Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5424835&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Charles Schultz Helps Move '62 Falcons Off The Showroom Floor]]> While looking for info on the Ford Thriftpower Six engine, I stumbled across this brochure for the 1962 Ford Falcon. What a find! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5420186&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mad_Science Brings Us A Los Angeles DOTS-O-Rama!]]> Über Bird team captain and PCH Poster Child Mad_Science has vast quantities of photographs of old and interesting street-parked SoCal machinery for us. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5419926&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Cars Of Mad Max 4: First Look]]> After we revealed yesterday Mad Max 4: Fury Road is green-lit, director George Miller's provided a sneak-peak at two cars from the new movie. One is the Max's iconic supercharged Interceptor, the other, a monster-motored hot-rod pickup. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5390893&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ford FPV Falcon GS Sedan And Ute Go Retro]]> Australia's Ford Performance Vehicles has updated their Falcon lineup by resurrecting the GS trim for both the large Falcon sedan and Ute. Retrohoonanism anyone? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5350217&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pair Of Early-60s Ford Rancheros Will Go To Crusher As A Team]]> Would you believe that the same junkyard with matching white Volvo Amazons also boasts a pair of matching white Ford Falcon Rancheros? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5348700&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs]]> When we think of NASCAR in the early 60s, we think of big cars. Impalas. Furies. Galaxies. But for two glorious years, Detroit's new compacts took to the tracks in NASCAR-sanctioned events. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5337225&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nine Great Bare-Necessity-Mobiles]]> Yesterday, GM announced a return to basics. That's good because sometimes, mobility alone is all we can afford. Few bare-bones cars had something making them more than basic transportation. Some, starting with the Model T, did. Here's our favorites. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5335899&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Visit To Holman Moody Makes 24 Hours Of LeMons Staff Reconsider $500 Limit]]> When you've got a few hours to kill before catching your flight out of Charlotte, North Carolina, what do you do? Pound Retsina-and-Schlitz Boilermakers at the airport bar… or check out Holman Moody's shop? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5208277&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Love The Beast Trailer Details Eric Bana's Touching Love Affair With His Ford Falcon]]> Although Eric Bana only publicly mentioned he was working on a documentary about his '74 Ford Falcon for the first time at the Bathurst 1000 race this past weekend, we've got an exclusive first look at the trailer for the movie, titled "Love The Beast," set to appear in Aussie theaters in February, 2009. We've known about Eric Bana's love affair with his '74 Ford Falcon ever since news hit that the Aussie actor had taken the Falcon head-first into a tree during last year's Targa Tasmania rally. Now he's enlisted some A-list auto celebs and one not-so-A-list auto celeb to help tell his car-loving tale. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5065815&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Special Ford Falcon GT Celebrates FPV's 5th Anniversary]]> The special-anniversary-edition Aussie muscle keeps rolling out at the Australian International Motor Show. First it was the HSV 20th Anniversary GTS and now we have this, a special FPV Ford Falcon GT that commemorates the five years of Ford Performance Vehicles. The 5.4-liter V8 still delivers the same ground-pounding 422 HP through a Tremec 6-speed manual or ZF 6-speed automatic as used in standard FPV GTs. However, you can now reign it in with special Brembo six-piston front / four-piston rear calipers surrounded by new 19" rims. FPV is only making 200 5th Anniversary editions, in your choice of black with silver accents, or silver with black accents. We just wish Ford's American lineup would develop an Aussie accent in addition to its new European twang. Press release after the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5061588&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Top Gear Australia's Ratings Slump Despite Holden Vs. Ford Shootout]]> If we lived down under, we would have tuned in to SBS on Monday at 7:30 to watch the Top Gear Australia shootout between the iconic Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon...but we don't. Watch the clip and judge for yourself, but we think that even though it may not be quite as polished as the UK original, this segment wasn't all that bad. So why did the ratings for this second episode drop off significantly from the series premiere's, even though they were actually expected to go up? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5060014&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1963 Ford Falcon]]> Since we started off the week with a Falcon cartruck, we might as well take a look at an early Falcon with no truck bed. This '63 usually parks on the same block as the '69 VW Beetle, not far from where a Navy A7 crashed in the early 70s and became a grim Alameda legend. We've seen a couple of Falcons in this series, including a '62 and another '63 (if you consider the Mercury Comet to be a Falcon, then we've also seen this '64 and this '65). More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=392618&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PUTC Sets Up Aussie Sh-Ute-Out Between Holden VE And Ford Falcon FG, We Demand Dibs On Round Two!]]> Color us here at Jalopnik red with jealousy. Our friends at PickupTrucks.com sent their Aussie stringer James Stanford out back to let him get in touch with his inner hoon. What better way to do it than by running a brand spankin' new 2008 Holden VE Ute head-to-head with a 2008 Ford Falcon FG Ute? Stanford found out all the really important technical details on the two new car-based pickups — like both can hold a slab of 24 stubbies (beer bottles) behind each seat. Yes, the important technical details were covered, but how do each Ute do at going frontways? Sideways? Backways? You'll have to head over to PUTC for the specifics, but according to Stanford, the Ford out-drags the Holden, but the Holden took down the Falcon by a few tenths of a second in the almost-quarter-mile. We think we'd probably call that a tie. Sounds to us like they should send team Jalopnik over for the round two, eh? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=392147&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Full Details On Ford Australia's Multi-Flavored FPV Falcon Lineup]]> When Ford of Australia first announced their lineup of F6 FPV lineup we didn't pay too much attention to the various minor differences in the F6 Falcon lineup. Little did we know how far the Ford Performance Vehicle group was going to go in order to meet the needs of anyone with the cash to throw around $60,000+ USD on V8-powered goodness. Each vehicle in this range comes with the new 5.4-Liter Boss V8 good for 422 horsepower and 407 lb-ft of torque mated to a ZF six-speed auto transmission or TR6060 six-speed manual gearbox. The GT is your basic high-performance sedan while the GT P takes it a couple of steps further. The GT E is at the upper extreme, offering similar performance without all the boy racer styling and colors for the hoon with a briefcase. Press release below the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390327&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Aussie Anti-Hoon Laws Taking Natural Course, Government Wallowing In Cash]]> Eventually, auto enthusiasts of the Australian persuasion will rise up with pitchforks and torches and rebel against their fun-hating government. On Sunday, police in New South Wales descended upon a gathering of motorheads and proceeded to search 72 vehicles, issue 39 tickets and impound 18 vehicle — one of which was a rare $200,000 Ford Falcon GT. This wouldn't be such a huge deal except for that part about the impounding being permanent, and the vehicles being sent to auction, and the proceeds going to government coffers. Adding insult to injury for that Falcon driver, what was the offense? A second burnout ticket. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=387151&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1965 Mercury Comet 202]]> Hey, if you shoot enough photos of old cars on the streets of Alameda, sooner or later you'll get a shot that looks something like a Robert Bechtle painting! The photo above made me almost happy enough to forget my frustration that there's a super-original, 4-speed-equipped '68 AMX parked a couple doors down from this Comet... in a driveway, and thus off-limits to DOTS. The pain! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=373729&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Conflicting Reports On Future Design Home Of Ford RWD Platform]]> The webs, they are a churning. On Monday The Detroit News published an article stating that Ford would be taking advantage of the weak dollar and moving development work of its next generation rear wheel drive platform from Australia to the United States. That's all well and good but then Carpoint of Australia went and asked Ford of Australias Manager of PR Sinead McAlary about it. Her response of "It's too early to speculate on that" has set off a flurry of speculation that there's a turf war raging within Ford over the home of the platform. So for the record the current story line is this: DetNews publishes story claiming RWD platform moving to USA, Carpoint gets Ford AU on record with a "not so fast" response, and Ford USA is not on the record for anything. We called Ford directly to see if we could get some clarity on the story, and the result was a resounding maybe. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=373085&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mustang Aussie: Ford To Focus On The Falcon, Not So Much Mercury]]> We hear this AM that Ford's taking a page directly from GM's Aussie-loving playbook. Bryce Hoffman of the Detroit News, who's never met a job he couldn't hand-le when it comes to Ford, is reporting they're looking at bringing the rear-wheel-drive Falcon platform up from down under to provide the basis for the next Ford Mustang. In addition to the muscular two-door, it'll also be used for new sedans from the Ford and Lincoln brands — replacements for the Crown Vic and Lincoln Town Car — both scheduled to meet their demise come 2011. The only problem is, Auto Week reported this same thing like umm, in January. So we've got a more important question that Bryce has seemingly left unasked. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=371261&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ford Falcon Cobra, Now That's A Knife]]> In honor of the Melbourne International Motor Show and the best Australian cars QOTD, our good friend Vintage_Racer has shared some photos of the Ford Falcon Cobra. This particular model is #349 of only 400 produced. How did the Cobra brand make it all the way to Australia? That's a funny story.
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=362495&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[V8 Ford Falcon Supercar Tuned To Play Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda With Me]]> The folks at JELD-WEN Motorsports have had a little extra time on the their hands this off season and have used that to make some interesting engine management adjustments. In addition to raking up wins in the Australian V8 Supercar series, this Falcon manages to play a simple version of the Australian folk tune. More proof that we need the 2008 Ford FG Falcons here in America. Did you hear that Mark Fields? Won't you let the Falcon go Waltzing Matilda with us? [V8SC via World Car Fans] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=359107&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[2008 Ford FG Falcons Are Here, Holden To Your Seats]]> The wait is finally over and the new Australian Ford Falcons are here. Known as the FG Falcon, this seventh generation of the Falcon appears to be packing the goods to compete with the venerable Holden Commodore. This RWD sedan will come in XT, G-Series and XR trim levels with a variety of engines. The Ute version will include a base, R6 and XR trim. In addition to the base inline-six, the Falcon gets a turbocharged version good for 362 horsepower and 393 lb.-ft. of torque. At the top end is the 5.4-liter Boss V8 good for 388 horsepower and 383 lb.-ft. of torque. Press release and more pics of the Aussie car-truck goodness below the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=357579&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Rare $250,000 Falcon Stolen From Neighborhood, All Your Falcons Are Belong to Aus]]> It seems as though no one in Australia has a lock on their garage, as yet another rare Falcon has been stolen in the land down under. This time it was a 1970 Ford XY Falcon GT Sedan with special Bathurst Gold Mag Wheels valued at $250,000. This is following the recent theft of another rare Falcon worth $600,000. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=328497&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Rare $600,000 Ford Falcon Stolen From Aussie Auto Shop]]> A rare red 1971 Phase III GT HO Ford Falcon Sedan registration number 71 HO valued at over $600,000 was stolen out of the J & M Caporale Auto Body Repairs shop in Osborne Park, Australia. But since the Falcon was in the back of the store, they had to move a couple of cars to get there. Here's what the report in the Perth Times had to say about how the caper was accomplished:
"Once inside, the offenders moved a number of vehicles in order to gain access to the car. These vehicles were driven out through the front roller doors which face onto Collingwood Street, and parked down the side of the premises.
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=320308&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ford Falcon XR Sedan, Ute Swoop In From Down Under]]> Ford Australia just revealed details on the new Ford Falcon XR range before the new lineup's public reveal at the Australian International Motor Show in Sydney next week. The newly revised XR sedan includes a new bodykit, revised mirrors and a bunch of other prettiness on the outside. In addition to the sedan, Ford's also dropped the sheet on a new limited edition Falcon XR ute — it's the "XR by Craig Lowndes" Falcon Ute special vehicle pack, available on XR6, XR6 Turbo and XR8 Styleside Box models, including XR6 with the optional E-Gas dedicated LPG engine. As far as under the bonnet, we don't yet have those details, but we're told to expect engines more powerful than comparable engine choices from Holden — but we'll believe that when we see the numbers ourselves. Full press release after the jump. More »
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