Falcon Facts: News

Falcon sales improving

March 14, 2003

The BA Falcon is continuing to claw back sales from Holden. According to VFACTS February sales figures, Falcon sold just 336 vehicles less than Commodore, resulting in Falcon's best sales month since 1996. The introduction of the XR8 helped things along, and the Falcon ute is still popular - with 1584 sold compared to 1183 Commodore utes. 6002 Falcons were sold, while Holden managed to offload 6338 Commodores.

The US studies Falcon

January 17, 2003

In an exclusive story, GoAuto reports that Ford US has approved a “paper study” into the suitability of exporting the Falcon. Both the short and long wheelbase versions will be examined. While some Falcons are already being evaluated in the US, the president of Ford North America said “the probability of it happening is small.”

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Falcon XR8

January 17, 2003

Ford this week announced the pricing of its new XR8. The manual version will be $50,130, $6165 more than the XR6T. Hundreds of orders for the car have already been taken, and after long waiting times expericenced by XR6 buyers, BA production was increased to 500 cars a day, up from 410.

A Ford spokesman, Andrew Ellis, said "The waiting lists have been building since before Christmas, but that should begin to fall now." The success of the XR6 Turbo isn't expected to hurt XR8 sales, and the XR8 shouldn't slow demand for the Turbo. "There is a large market of people who are only interested in the V8," said Ellis. "But I admit it will be interesting to see if the XR8 sales will impact on XR6 Turbo sales."
972 XR6s were sold in December, Ford's best month for XR Falcon sales. 468 of these were Turbos.

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