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Originally Posted by eb2monty
But is this news? We were always getting a 2014 Falcon. The design of which would already be locked away, surely?
I'm waiting on post 2016.
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Model approval and the funds that go along with it come in several stages. Business case, concept and design, engineering and attribute validation, process development, etcetera. Each stage has benchmarks/KPI's attached to it in order to unlock the development funds for the successive stage. It gives management an easy 'out' if they think it isnt going to work.
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Fords I own or have owned:
1970 XW Falcon GT replica 
| 1970 XW Falcon | 1971 XY Fairmont | 1973 ZG Fairlane | 1986 XF Falcon panel van | 1987 XFII Falcon S-Pack | 1988 XF Falcon GLS ute | 1993 EBII Fairmont V8 | 1996 XG Falcon ute | 2000 AU Falcon wagon |
2004 BA Falcon XT | 2012 SZ Territory Titanium AWD
Proud to buy Australian and support Ford Australia through thick and thin