Large Car Comparison (Ford-Holden-Honda-Toyota)
6-cylinder Luxury Large Car Showdown - Ford vs. Holden vs. Honda vs. Toyota
2008 FG Ford Falcon G6E vs. Holden Calais V6 vs. Honda Accord V6 Luxury vs. Toyota Aurion Presara
Archive for the ‘Falcon’ Category
6-cylinder Luxury Large Car Showdown - Ford vs. Holden vs. Honda vs. Toyota
2008 FG Ford Falcon G6E vs. Holden Calais V6 vs. Honda Accord V6 Luxury vs. Toyota Aurion Presara
The federal government has released its Green Vehicle Guide online, naming and shaming a variety of popular vehicles for their average fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
The Holden Commodore has been named as the most “petrol-hungry” of Australia’s big-selling cars, closely followed by its rival, the Ford Falcon.
FPV has taken a unique approach to its television advertising for the new performance FG Falcon range, calling on the power of technology to showcase its new models on the small screen.
Rarely using television to advertise the brand, rather than take the traditional approach FPV has created its new generation ad campaign exclusively with Computer Generated Images (CGI).
One of the main criticisms of the new FG Falcon Ute range has been the lack of Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) availability across the entire range.
Ford has quickly addressed this issue, today announcing that DSC will be standard on all XR Falcon Ute models equipped with sports suspension from September production.
Ford Motor Company Australia is in no hurry to join its rivals Toyota and GM Holden in rushing down the hybrid power path, preferring instead to stick with its proven LPG and diesel as alternative fuels.
-David Twomey
At a monthly media briefing in Melbourne today (Thursday) Vice President Marketing and Sales, Mark Winslow, said Ford was ‘comfortable’ with its current strategy, which focuses on the E-Gas variant of the Ford Falcon and increased diesel power.
With the recent announcement that Holden is only two years away from producing hybrid and diesel Commodores, NSW Premier Morris Iemma has thrown his backing behind the project, urging both Ford and Holden to produce a hybrid sedan, with a promise to purchase the vehicles for the NSW Government fleet.
Currently 355 hybrid vehicles exist in the NSW Government fleet, all of which are either Prius or Civic Hybrids. The QLD government also recently purchased 50 hybrid Civics.
Following our previous story on the FG01 V8 Supercar, Ford Australia has today finally unveiled its new ‘Nitro’ blue with white themed V8 Supercar. The car is scheduled for its first public appearance at Sandown in Melbourne this weekend.
The new weapon against Holden was built by major Ford V8 Supercar teams Ford Performance Racing (FPR) Triple 8 (T8) and Stone Brothers Racing (SBR) and it’s based on the recently launched FG Falcon XR8 sedan.
Ford fans will get their first look at the all new FG Falcon based V8 Supercar racer this weekend when the car goes on show at Melbourne’s Sandown Raceway.
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Ford has announced that the car, code named FG01, will be rolled out of the Ford Performance Racing workshops in Broadmeadows for the Midas 400 race weekend at Sandown.
In this video we see a performance demonstration of the launch control feature on the new Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo manual model.
The launch control system works by holding the revs at 3500rpm and deactivating two of the cylinders which are instead used to spool the turbo to reduce lag at take-off.
2008 FPV Range First Steer
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Models driven: FPV GT E, GT-P, F6, Super Pursuit, Pursuit – all autos
- by David Twomey
The first word that springs to mind in regard to the FG Falcon based Ford Performance Vehicle range is ‘entertaining’, and the entertainment comes in bag loads provided you are aware of both your limitations and those of the cars.