FG X, The Last EVER Falcon - Picture & Discussion Thread

[Hawkeye84]

Apparently Ford flashed a teaser pick of the 2014 falcon at the Sydney Motorshow.

Ive been frantically looking around for it, but cant find it

http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/f...018-27sc6.html

Mod Edit I've created a "Show us your FG-X" thread in the show'n'shine section, so anyone who has already taken delivery, please go ahead and show off your new beast in the following thread..

http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11428815

[EASYBOSS]

here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnH64zffAqk

Link stolen from the locked thread

[Joe5619]

ABOUT TIME!!!

This is the stuff I want to see Ford doing with Falcon, getting good media about Falcon out there... Well done!!

Instead of dodging questions about its future, they have come out swinging & mading it front & centre!!

[05_ENFORCER]

Meh, I didn't even get half a chubby outta that


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[vztrt]

Originally Posted by 05_ENFORCER

Meh, I didn't even get half a chubby outta that


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You can get pills to fix that now.....

[05_ENFORCER]

Originally Posted by vztrt

You can get pills to fix that now.....

I takes more than a fuzzy image to get me excited!

Just another facelift I suppose, nothing new to see here, move along, move along


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[JPFS1]

Originally Posted by 05_ENFORCER

Just another facelift I suppose....

I suppose you might be wrong.

[pursuit2359]

Can't say I got anything out of that.

Somebody here could probably come up with a decent mock-up by taking the current FG Falcon and adding the Aston Martin-style grille that is now part of Ford's "design language".

[asagaai]

Before buying the FGX XR8, I toyed with buying a Porsche 2 door, but my work requires me to sometimes travel with a large amount of files, clothing for a week, computers, printers, laptops, and I remember struggling packing this stuff in a Honda Euro for a 1 month Inquest in Sydney.

Today, I packed my office into the XR8, and drove from Newcastle to Coffs Harbour. Stuffed the rear with files and legal gumph for 2 cases, back seat-printer, laptops, all office gear, 2 boxes paper for printer, 3 toners, 1 drum, etc etc.

Try getting this stuff in the back seat of a mustang or a 911- ha ha. I remember the printer being a problem with the Honda Euro-very narrow back door.

Could not believe how the Falcon ate all my crap, space to spare.

Then drove to Coffs Harbour, speeds, 100kph, 80 kph, and 110kph, and I factored in speedo underreading and a uhm variance -you get my drift-as well as some uhm spirited blasts of some 4/5, and the fuel consumption was 9.6, drove around Coffs before taking the fuel consumption shot above.

Not bad for a heavily loaded dinosaur putting out some 500 hp...

Great car this Falcon......

[fgpsi]

Originally Posted by asagaai

Before buying the FGX XR8, I toyed with buying a Porsche 2 door, but my work requires me to sometimes travel with a large amount of files, clothing for a week, computers, printers, laptops, and I remember struggling packing this stuff in a Honda Euro for a 1 month Inquest in Sydney.

Today, I packed my office into the XR8, and drove from Newcastle to Coffs Harbour. Stuffed the rear with files and legal gumph for 2 cases, back seat-printer, laptops, all office gear, 2 boxes paper for printer, 3 toners, 1 drum, etc etc.

Try getting this stuff in the back seat of a mustang or a 911- ha ha. I remember the printer being a problem with the Honda Euro-very narrow back door.

Could not believe how the Falcon ate all my crap, space to spare.

Then drove to Coffs Harbour, speeds, 100kph, 80 kph, and 110kph, and I factored in speedo underreading and a uhm variance -you get my drift-as well as some uhm spirited blasts of some 4/5, and the fuel consumption was 9.6, drove around Coffs before taking the fuel consumption shot above.

Not bad for a heavily loaded dinosaur putting out some 500 hp...

Great car this Falcon......

dude FFS at least throw a rug over the back seat, your printer is digging into the rear seat like no tomorrow

[rst2000]

i saw nothing but a blurred image...sneak peek, i think i need to book into opsm.

[R-Design]

I've seen better UFO footage than that. I want to believe Ford!

[Mr Hardware]

Could have been a VE for all i can see

[Elements]

Do you REALLY expect Ford to make the teaser really clear and obvious 2 years out from release? No! That would only date it by the time it got to launch, which means lost sales! It really does seem that no matter what Ford does, it's never enough, short of releasing a new model every month. And then they'd get owners off-side by ruining resale even more...

Just be glad they've even acknowledged it, and didn't brush it under the carpet. And if I were a gambling man, I wouldn't be putting my money on this just being any old boring facelift.

[Road_Warrior]

Unbeleivable. I suggest some of you go read the Carpoint article about it.

[Mighty Reds]

If it looks anything like the upcoming Mondeo it should look sweet.

[flappist]

As far as I can see the teaser serves three purposes:

1) To assure the general public that Falcon is staying.
2) To stick it up a couple of anti ford journos who have been making assumptions.
3) To really really REALLY upset a small group of trolls on some internet forum somewhere.........

[Falcman0o7]

I see mustang style there....

[Fordman1]

Originally Posted by Falcman0o7

I see mustang style there....

I see Mondeo styling.

[GTP534]

Originally Posted by Falcman0o7

I see mustang style there....

Yep, me too!

[Buntz]

Originally Posted by GTP534

Yep, me too!

Originally Posted by Falcman0o7

I see mustang style there....

Originally Posted by rancidpunx

Just me or is the front upper grille and headlights very Mustang

Originally Posted by DASH GT

Thought the same thing myself!!!

Cant wait to see the next model... I will support it to.

I agree with all of you. Just looking at that front shot of the light, and front intake, with the abrupt chin below it... I could see lots of right front 2012 Mustang.

I don't want to be a wet blanket. But I was hoping for different looks between Falcon and Mustang. I don't really want it to become just a 4 door Mustang. I think that will detract from it's uniqueness. But if it stays Aussie, and RWD... then I can live with it.. or learn to.

[Nikked]

Originally Posted by Buntz

I agree with all of you. Just looking at that front shot of the light, and front intake, with the abrupt chin below it... I could see lots of right front 2012 Mustang.

I don't want to be a wet blanket. But I was hoping for different looks between Falcon and Mustang. I don't really want it to become just a 4 door Mustang. I think that will detract from it's uniqueness. But if it stays Aussie, and RWD... then I can live with it.. or learn to.

The 2014 Falcon won't look (specifically) like the current mustang, as the mustang its self is under going a make over. However, the large upper grill that the Fusion/mondeo (i.e. Fords global styling) does share some similarities with the current mustang look...



Mustang renders...







Remember those Madmax concepts ford had last year...



...might be more too them, just sayn'

[Buntz]

Originally Posted by Nikked

The 2014 Falcon won't look (specifically) like the current mustang, as the mustang its self is under going a make over. However, the large upper grill that the Fusion/mondeo (i.e. Fords global styling) does share some similarities with the current mustang look...

image

Mustang renders...

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Remember those Madmax concepts ford had last year...

image

...might be more too them, just sayn'

Yeah just had another look at it. It's kind of Fusion-Mustang like. Thought the bulb.. HID, seems to be closer to the grille. Giving it that Mustangness.

Originally Posted by FPV GTHO

It's the same as the Taurus argument. By the time 2014 Falcon is on sale it will be time for next gen Mustang which will abandon the heavy retro theme.

Well.. no, not really. J Mays said that they would be departing from the Retro look, but bringing all their current customer base with them. So it's going to be a more modern jump from basing off the Mustang language, incorporating the kinetic 2.0 theme.

[Fordman]

Originally Posted by Falcman0o7

I see mustang style there....

That was my first thought, i see alot of mustang there!

Pretty inconclusive but.

[boss engine]

I...rest...my...case

[Wretched]

Originally Posted by boss engine

I...rest...my...case

I said it when it was revealed and I'll say it again, FG X makes FG(I and II) look very old hat. Just a pity Ford had no $$ to do some upgrades to the interior.

[boss engine]

Trust me, you aren't the only person to say that it makes the current Falcon look dated, because it does!

[Blem]

Originally Posted by boss engine

Trust me, you aren't the only person to say that it makes the current Falcon look dated, because it does!

Those photos show me that the FG has the last Australian inspired Falcon appearance.
The new Falcon has the "worldwide" Ford look about it.
Perhaps the new model looks better in the flesh. It would need to

[Silver Ghia]

Originally Posted by Wretched

I said it when it was revealed and I'll say it again, FG X makes FG(I and II) look very old hat. Just a pity Ford had no $$ to do some upgrades to the interior.

I'm wondering why Ford would make upgrades to the interior, to the same extent as Holden did with their VF. The big difference is Holden just had to modernise from the terrible VE interior design, but the 6 year old basic design of the FG interior is very functional and still appealing, and would have been hardly worthwhile for major changes to be done just for a couple of years production. Especially considering the numbers that will be built.

[Dalonian]

Does anyone know if the EcoLpi models of the FG X have had a re design so they have the same boot space as the petrol engines?