remyb Member 20 Member For: 19y 11m 16d Gender: Male Posted 25/04/05 10:51 PM Share Posted 25/04/05 10:51 PM This might sound like a bit of a stupid question but here goes, I have an xr6 turbo and was wondering what the XR actually stood for???Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobrav8 Member 1,969 Member For: 19y 7m 22d Gender: Male Location: New Zealand Posted 25/04/05 11:42 PM Share Posted 25/04/05 11:42 PM eXperimental Racing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cro Flower Power Lifetime Members 6,114 Member For: 22y 1m 5d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 26/04/05 12:18 AM Share Posted 26/04/05 12:18 AM It was covered here ages ago...When the GT was released back in the day it was part of the XR series.Now all performance falcons are labled XR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobrav8 Member 1,969 Member For: 19y 7m 22d Gender: Male Location: New Zealand Posted 26/04/05 12:20 AM Share Posted 26/04/05 12:20 AM Rubbish.Ford have used XR for all sorts of performance vehicles for ages. British have Xr3s XR4s Americans had Cougar XR7s in the 60s as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomxrt Member 27 Member For: 20y 10m 12d Location: Sydney Posted 26/04/05 12:27 AM Share Posted 26/04/05 12:27 AM Spot on. XR is a generic Ford brand nomenclature which is applied globally to performance marques periodically. EXperimental Racing was indeed it's origin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra potty trained Lifetime Members 1,938 Member For: 21y 6m 21d Gender: Male Posted 26/04/05 12:42 AM Share Posted 26/04/05 12:42 AM wouldn't have a factual clue Xperimental Racing was what I thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macktheknife Xtreme Xalted Member Donating Members 3,112 Member For: 21y 6m 9d Gender: Male Location: BrisVegas Posted 26/04/05 01:54 AM Share Posted 26/04/05 01:54 AM Xtremely Ravishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximum_velocity Lemming No #5 Member 1,991 Member For: 19y 11m 23d Gender: Male Location: Endeavour Hills, Victoria Posted 26/04/05 02:18 AM Share Posted 26/04/05 02:18 AM It was covered here ages ago...When the GT was released back in the day it was part of the XR series.Now all performance falcons are labled XR.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I think your right croThis is also why the base model falcon is called XT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford Grunt Member 159 Member For: 21y 9m 10d Location: Newcastle Posted 26/04/05 04:07 AM Share Posted 26/04/05 04:07 AM Ive always thought it was a kick back to the first real Ford Falcon performance car the "XR" GT. Meaning that the car would have performance origins dating back to he XR. A cue that Ford wanted to to insert after the boring no v8 days of XF-to EA. (But hey I could be totally off the mark or could be shear coincidence). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrankyBen Member 37 Member For: 20y 2m 14d Location: Canberra Posted 26/04/05 05:42 AM Share Posted 26/04/05 05:42 AM This is one of those burning questions... other ones include "What does GLi/SS/XT/MR/etc etc etc stand for...?"They're letters I'm sure Ford marketing has come up with some drivel about what they stand for, and I would hazard a bet that the letters came before the meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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