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Old 18-10-2012, 02:33 PM   #1
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Default FG X, The Last EVER Falcon - Picture & Discussion Thread

Apparently Ford flashed a teaser pick of the 2014 falcon at the Sydney Motorshow.

Ive been frantically looking around for it, but cant find it

http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/f...018-27sc6.html

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Old 18-10-2012, 02:39 PM   #2
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here

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ABOUT TIME!!!

This is the stuff I want to see Ford doing with Falcon, getting good media about Falcon out there... Well done!!

Instead of dodging questions about its future, they have come out swinging & mading it front & centre!!
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Old 18-10-2012, 02:52 PM   #4
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Meh, I didn't even get half a chubby outta that


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Meh, I didn't even get half a chubby outta that


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Old 18-10-2012, 03:07 PM   #6
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You can get pills to fix that now.....
I takes more than a fuzzy image to get me excited!

Just another facelift I suppose, nothing new to see here, move along, move along


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Old 18-10-2012, 04:56 PM   #7
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Just another facelift I suppose....
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Old 18-10-2012, 02:58 PM   #8
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Can't say I got anything out of that.

Somebody here could probably come up with a decent mock-up by taking the current FG Falcon and adding the Aston Martin-style grille that is now part of Ford's "design language".
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Before buying the FGX XR8, I toyed with buying a Porsche 2 door, but my work requires me to sometimes travel with a large amount of files, clothing for a week, computers, printers, laptops, and I remember struggling packing this stuff in a Honda Euro for a 1 month Inquest in Sydney.

Today, I packed my office into the XR8, and drove from Newcastle to Coffs Harbour. Stuffed the rear with files and legal gumph for 2 cases, back seat-printer, laptops, all office gear, 2 boxes paper for printer, 3 toners, 1 drum, etc etc.

Try getting this stuff in the back seat of a mustang or a 911- ha ha. I remember the printer being a problem with the Honda Euro-very narrow back door.

Could not believe how the Falcon ate all my crap, space to spare.

Then drove to Coffs Harbour, speeds, 100kph, 80 kph, and 110kph, and I factored in speedo underreading and a uhm variance -you get my drift-as well as some uhm spirited blasts of some 4/5, and the fuel consumption was 9.6, drove around Coffs before taking the fuel consumption shot above.

Not bad for a heavily loaded dinosaur putting out some 500 hp...

Great car this Falcon......
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Before buying the FGX XR8, I toyed with buying a Porsche 2 door, but my work requires me to sometimes travel with a large amount of files, clothing for a week, computers, printers, laptops, and I remember struggling packing this stuff in a Honda Euro for a 1 month Inquest in Sydney.

Today, I packed my office into the XR8, and drove from Newcastle to Coffs Harbour. Stuffed the rear with files and legal gumph for 2 cases, back seat-printer, laptops, all office gear, 2 boxes paper for printer, 3 toners, 1 drum, etc etc.

Try getting this stuff in the back seat of a mustang or a 911- ha ha. I remember the printer being a problem with the Honda Euro-very narrow back door.

Could not believe how the Falcon ate all my crap, space to spare.

Then drove to Coffs Harbour, speeds, 100kph, 80 kph, and 110kph, and I factored in speedo underreading and a uhm variance -you get my drift-as well as some uhm spirited blasts of some 4/5, and the fuel consumption was 9.6, drove around Coffs before taking the fuel consumption shot above.

Not bad for a heavily loaded dinosaur putting out some 500 hp...

Great car this Falcon......
dude FFS at least throw a rug over the back seat, your printer is digging into the rear seat like no tomorrow
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Old 18-10-2012, 03:08 PM   #11
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i saw nothing but a blurred image...sneak peek, i think i need to book into opsm.
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Old 18-10-2012, 03:10 PM   #12
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I've seen better UFO footage than that. I want to believe Ford!
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Could have been a VE for all i can see
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Old 18-10-2012, 03:39 PM   #14
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Do you REALLY expect Ford to make the teaser really clear and obvious 2 years out from release? No! That would only date it by the time it got to launch, which means lost sales! It really does seem that no matter what Ford does, it's never enough, short of releasing a new model every month. And then they'd get owners off-side by ruining resale even more...

Just be glad they've even acknowledged it, and didn't brush it under the carpet. And if I were a gambling man, I wouldn't be putting my money on this just being any old boring facelift.
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Old 18-10-2012, 03:36 PM   #15
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Unbeleivable. I suggest some of you go read the Carpoint article about it.
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Old 18-10-2012, 03:46 PM   #16
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If it looks anything like the upcoming Mondeo it should look sweet.
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Old 18-10-2012, 03:49 PM   #17
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As far as I can see the teaser serves three purposes:

1) To assure the general public that Falcon is staying.
2) To stick it up a couple of anti ford journos who have been making assumptions.
3) To really really REALLY upset a small group of trolls on some internet forum somewhere.........
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I see mustang style there....
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I see Mondeo styling.
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Thought the same thing myself!!!

Cant wait to see the next model... I will support it to.
I agree with all of you. Just looking at that front shot of the light, and front intake, with the abrupt chin below it... I could see lots of right front 2012 Mustang.

I don't want to be a wet blanket. But I was hoping for different looks between Falcon and Mustang. I don't really want it to become just a 4 door Mustang. I think that will detract from it's uniqueness. But if it stays Aussie, and RWD... then I can live with it.. or learn to.

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I agree with all of you. Just looking at that front shot of the light, and front intake, with the abrupt chin below it... I could see lots of right front 2012 Mustang.

I don't want to be a wet blanket. But I was hoping for different looks between Falcon and Mustang. I don't really want it to become just a 4 door Mustang. I think that will detract from it's uniqueness. But if it stays Aussie, and RWD... then I can live with it.. or learn to.
The 2014 Falcon won't look (specifically) like the current mustang, as the mustang its self is under going a make over. However, the large upper grill that the Fusion/mondeo (i.e. Fords global styling) does share some similarities with the current mustang look...



Mustang renders...







Remember those Madmax concepts ford had last year...



...might be more too them, just sayn'
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The 2014 Falcon won't look (specifically) like the current mustang, as the mustang its self is under going a make over. However, the large upper grill that the Fusion/mondeo (i.e. Fords global styling) does share some similarities with the current mustang look...

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Mustang renders...

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Remember those Madmax concepts ford had last year...

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...might be more too them, just sayn'
Yeah just had another look at it. It's kind of Fusion-Mustang like. Thought the bulb.. HID, seems to be closer to the grille. Giving it that Mustangness.

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It's the same as the Taurus argument. By the time 2014 Falcon is on sale it will be time for next gen Mustang which will abandon the heavy retro theme.
Well.. no, not really. J Mays said that they would be departing from the Retro look, but bringing all their current customer base with them. So it's going to be a more modern jump from basing off the Mustang language, incorporating the kinetic 2.0 theme.
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That was my first thought, i see alot of mustang there!

Pretty inconclusive but.
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I said it when it was revealed and I'll say it again, FG X makes FG(I and II) look very old hat. Just a pity Ford had no $$ to do some upgrades to the interior.
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Trust me, you aren't the only person to say that it makes the current Falcon look dated, because it does!
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Trust me, you aren't the only person to say that it makes the current Falcon look dated, because it does!
Those photos show me that the FG has the last Australian inspired Falcon appearance.
The new Falcon has the "worldwide" Ford look about it.
Perhaps the new model looks better in the flesh. It would need to
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I said it when it was revealed and I'll say it again, FG X makes FG(I and II) look very old hat. Just a pity Ford had no $$ to do some upgrades to the interior.
I'm wondering why Ford would make upgrades to the interior, to the same extent as Holden did with their VF. The big difference is Holden just had to modernise from the terrible VE interior design, but the 6 year old basic design of the FG interior is very functional and still appealing, and would have been hardly worthwhile for major changes to be done just for a couple of years production. Especially considering the numbers that will be built.
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Does anyone know if the EcoLpi models of the FG X have had a re design so they have the same boot space as the petrol engines?
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