shockwave Member 129 Member For: 20y 10m 13d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 20/07/04 12:12 PM Share Posted 20/07/04 12:12 PM I'm sure Ford (just like any other car manufacturer) has quite a few prototype cars they work on during development of new models. Some are painted in prototype colours, others have engine mods and all sorts of test gear bolted on.Does anyone know what on earth happens to these fully working cars after the test cases have been exhausted? Do some elite employees get to hammer them to the end?For example, with the Targa 2003 falcons, who owns them now? Or what happened to some of these prototype GT's that were spotted with XR spoilers and painted in XT colours?Just curious... Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennAUII Former XT pilot Lifetime Members 4,791 Member For: 21y 9m 10d Gender: Male Location: The Womb Posted 20/07/04 12:14 PM Share Posted 20/07/04 12:14 PM they crush the pre production cars, I was speaking to a couple of the service guys today about it. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/#findComment-145268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockwave Member 129 Member For: 20y 10m 13d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 20/07/04 12:15 PM Author Share Posted 20/07/04 12:15 PM No!!!!!! Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/#findComment-145269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mook05 Member 108 Member For: 21y 10m 26d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 20/07/04 12:21 PM Share Posted 20/07/04 12:21 PM Some prototypes from Ford (if I remember correctly) were recently donated to the emergency services so they could be crushed with earthmoving equipment to resemble car wrecks. The emergency services then went to work with the jaws of life to test their recovery skills etc.....Years ago when they still made Nissans at Clayton, my old man worked there and I did a couple weeks work experience. There was a dumpyard for all the prototype cars - man it was fascinating, all these Japanese models to check out. Different departments would go and raid the dumpyard for a running prototype for them to use as their departmental car to drive around the factory......the dept I was working in had some kind of R30ish 4cyl Skyline from Japan, which I got to drive around the factory....(at 16 mind you) heheheCheers,Michael.. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/#findComment-145272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAP No boost, no bottle, just my foot on the throttle! Lifetime Members 7,935 Member For: 21y 2m 19d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 20/07/04 12:21 PM Share Posted 20/07/04 12:21 PM Yep, they crush them.It is a requirement under ADR's or some rules that they MUST be destroyed If they sold them they would be very desirable and command a better price, just like the 428 Cobrajet 1969 Falcon in this months Aussie muscle car Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/#findComment-145275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrdreaming Lifetime Members 1,693 Member For: 22y 3m 4d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 20/07/04 12:21 PM Share Posted 20/07/04 12:21 PM Yep, you see them sitting in the R&D yard at FPV with stickers all over them. This is a non production test vehicle and is to be destroyed and not for road registration or something like that. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/#findComment-145276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-carty nutter Member 1,966 Member For: 21y 3m 28d Location: Wagga Wagga Posted 20/07/04 01:01 PM Share Posted 20/07/04 01:01 PM that sucksthat means if they made a coupe in the ba's it would probably never be seen outside the fpv or fmc sites... :( Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/#findComment-145302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antisocial Weird Member Member 1,347 Member For: 22y 3m Location: ACT Posted 20/07/04 01:17 PM Share Posted 20/07/04 01:17 PM Follow the link to the link. :lol: http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11575 Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/#findComment-145313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-carty nutter Member 1,966 Member For: 21y 3m 28d Location: Wagga Wagga Posted 20/07/04 01:37 PM Share Posted 20/07/04 01:37 PM different purpose...that one was for "The idiots guide on how to remove a motor" :D:D:D Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/#findComment-145318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Member 1,869 Member For: 21y 8m 27d Gender: Male Location: Newcastle Posted 20/07/04 11:39 PM Share Posted 20/07/04 11:39 PM There is a yard near Geelong that has a contract to take these test vehicles from ford and destroy them. Not one single part is allowed to be removed by the yard from the cars before they're crushed but I've heard this doesn't always happen. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/11912-what-do-they-do-with-prototype-falcons/#findComment-145395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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