Re: Ford Australia to shut its doors

Originally Posted by
v8dude78
I have to agree Jamolad
Ford head honcho's in the USA have wanted the Falcon dead for a fair while to bring Australia into line with their "global Platform"

And the sad thing is the Falcon could have been part of an "affordable" RWD global platform in short wheel base guise underpinning the Mustang, Falcon and Territory and in long wheel base guise underpinning the Falcon Ute, Wagon, Fairlane, and Crown Victoria and an extra long wheel base underpinning an LTD and Lincoln Town Car. The Mustang was just a re-bodied Falcon at the start, so it was hardly a radical idea to unify the platform for the cars.
There must have been some seriously f*cked politics in Ford not to want to get the Falcon and Mustang to be built off the same platform. One day we may find out the truth of why it never happened...
Cheers, Matthew
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