Black_S15 Member 90 Member For: 14y 9m 15d Gender: Male Location: sydney Posted 16/07/13 02:38 PM Share Posted 16/07/13 02:38 PM http://news.drive.com.au/drive/motor-news/ford-to-kill-gt-falcon-early-20130716-2q1nh.html#poll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms700 Moderating Team 10,170 Member For: 21y 9m 26d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 16/07/13 03:59 PM Share Posted 16/07/13 03:59 PM XR8 with 335 S/C engine, brembo's and suspension?Yes please!In a way im glad they are not releasing a Hoey, that name badge deserves to be preserved as the ultimate hero badge, and not tarnished. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pazzo Donating Members 11,132 Member For: 14y 1m 4d Gender: Male Posted 16/07/13 07:59 PM Share Posted 16/07/13 07:59 PM I think it's a waste of time and Money doing the XR8.... People won't buy a car they will not make after 2016.. Ford be lucky to sell 20 a month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 12d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 17/07/13 01:19 AM Share Posted 17/07/13 01:19 AM Seems like a stupid option, lets devalue the car back to an XR8 and try to keep selling them...FPV is already in house and assembled on the floor why not just keep pumping them out as FPV's?.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFSIX I Lead Not Follow... Member 1,026 Member For: 12y 7m 6d Gender: Male Location: Westside,Melbourne Posted 17/07/13 01:38 AM Share Posted 17/07/13 01:38 AM ^^^^^have to agree....but in saying that,isnt the gs pretty much a xr8 s/c anyway with fpv badges which cost more?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Velocity_ Bronze Donating Members 2,768 Member For: 13y 7m 1d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 17/07/13 03:12 AM Share Posted 17/07/13 03:12 AM (edited) Yeah but the whole reason they stopped making the XR8 was because the old 5.4 donkey motor couldn't pass emissions. Prodrive wouldn't give Ford the rights to drop a 5.0 SC in a Ford badged car. Now that Ford owns FPV outright they can do whatever the bean counters say is viable. Which is probably to move as many 5.0 SC units as possible. Stickin the whine in a cheaper trimmed car will probably do this. Think RP083 or whatever they were back in the 70s. They're are cleaning out the stock they already have. Edited 17/07/13 03:22 AM by _Velocity_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_4.0 Member 1,096 Member For: 13y 10m 7d Posted 17/07/13 03:38 AM Share Posted 17/07/13 03:38 AM You realise prodrive didn't own the cars they sold ?? I highly doubt prodrive could tell ford not to put a s/c 5.0 in their car. The prodrive/ford agreement was NOTHING like the Holden/Hsv agreement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Velocity_ Bronze Donating Members 2,768 Member For: 13y 7m 1d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 17/07/13 04:34 AM Share Posted 17/07/13 04:34 AM (edited) I was under the belief that FPV owned the rights to the 5.0 SC not Ford Australia. Edited 17/07/13 04:44 AM by _Velocity_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_4.0 Member 1,096 Member For: 13y 10m 7d Posted 17/07/13 04:41 AM Share Posted 17/07/13 04:41 AM Even IF that was true, you do realise ford has had NA 5.0s in fg's since 2009? However, FPV didn't own the cars they sold. Ford had final say over each unit that left prodrive. I highly doubt prodrive could hold sole rights to a motor configuration in a car they don't own or have a final say over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_4.0 Member 1,096 Member For: 13y 10m 7d Posted 17/07/13 04:51 AM Share Posted 17/07/13 04:51 AM What I mean by the first paragraph above, is that ford have done a lot of development of their own on the 5.0. The NA 5.0 actually made awesome power. So much so that it was on par with the SC variant. Obviously it never got slotted into a car though for final production.Ford have had a massive hand in developing 5.0 motor for our car, so they would've shared a lot of info with Prodrive and vice versa regarding the SC variant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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