Meaning of XR?

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by supershifty

Off topic a bit - but I've always thought that "GT" meant "Gran Turismo" or "Grand Touring" and the "HO" meant either "High Output" or in the UK sense "Handling Options" (Jaguar). I think in the Aussie sense that it means "High Output". I'll squat to **** if I'm wrong... That's just my two cents worth guys & girls. No biggie!

HO was originally intended to mean High Output, but later in the game changed it to Handling Option to keep the insurance companies happy, hence why they also kept the quoted power the same as the regular GT's 300 hp, even though it made a lot more. Also kept Holden guessing.

May have also been done to keep the government unaware.

[NX74205]

Originally Posted by Jason[98.EL]

just googled the question and that is what i found

Jason

Not sure how authoritative Wikipedia is, to be honest. It's too much of a coincidence that European high performance Fords were also badged XRs.

[leonbray]

Originally Posted by swanny

Found something that says that in 1967 Ford (US) used XL to mean Deluxe, XR to mean Luxury. That led me to find this quote on another site.

"If the driver preferred luxury over performance, the XR-7 package was available."

http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z...ry-Cougar.aspx

This has been discussed many times over on mecurycougar.net and classic cougar forums. There is a lot of folklore but nothing definitive.


The experimental racing theory is the most widely accepted but doesn't correlate with the fact that Mercury raced the base model and the XR-7 was the luxury version - announced as the "royal new Cougar"

""Mercury now had its own pony car, and set out to make a serious dent in that market in the late Sixties. The Cougar XR7 (XR for "experimental racing", and the "7" from the early "T-7" designation?) was introduced as a luxury trim package with overhead consoles, toggle switches, leather seats, and wood grained steering wheels.""

http://www.fordcarz.com/classic-merc...ry-cougar.html

http://www.classiccougarcommunity.co...php?f=43&t=324

[CMGLX]

I thought XT= eXtra Tight ar$e

[Riksta]

Fixed a couple from the original post.

GT = Glued Together.
GTP= Glued Together Properly.

[Nikked]

Originally Posted by Riksta

Fixed a couple from the original post.

GT = Glued Together.
GTP= Glued Together Properly.

VN = Vulgar Nuisance

[WMD351]

I thought experimental racing was FX (factory experimental)

edit: ^^

[Riksta]

Originally Posted by Nikked

VN = Vulgar Nuisance

You wanna take this outside???

Originally stood for "Very Nice".

VNs are Horn.

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by Riksta

Fixed a couple from the original post.

GT = Glued Together
GTP= Glued Together Properly.

man i just weed my pants...

[russellw]

Originally Posted by Riksta

You wanna take this outside???

Originally stood for "Very Nice".

VNs are Horn.

... when you are down for the Nats I can direct you to a good optometry practioner so that you can get that eyesight fixed



Cheers
Russ

[SSD-85]

Originally Posted by russellw

... when you are down for the Nats I can direct you to a good optometry practioner so that you can get that eyesight fixed



Cheers
Russ

I think he'll need a bit more than his eyesight fixed Russ....

[Nikked]

Should have went to spec savers.

[Riksta]

Originally Posted by russellw

... when you are down for the Nats I can direct you to a good optometry practioner so that you can get that eyesight fixed



Cheers
Russ

I swear one year I'm gonna rock up in a truck like Whoosha's, loaded on the back with 6 VN Commodores*. Just for the laughs!!!

*Please note, one may even be a Toyota Lexcen for added entertainment value.

[IceValk85]

Originally Posted by Riksta

I swear one year I'm gonna rock up in a truck like Whoosha's, loaded on the back with 6 VN Commodores*. Just for the laughs!!!

*Please note, one may even be a Toyota Lexcen for added entertainment value.

1 to attempt to get down the strip and 5 for spares you mean lol

Ice

[Riksta]

Oh ye of little faith!

[WMD351]

Leave the VN alone... LEAVE IT ALONE

[Nikked]

Originally Posted by Riksta

I swear one year I'm gonna rock up in a truck like Whoosha's, loaded on the back with 6 VN Commodores*. Just for the laughs!!!

*Please note, one may even be a Toyota Lexcen for added entertainment value.

lexcen must have a HSV sticker

[leonbray]

VN was ahead of its time - the first car with built in seat vibrators as a no cost option - came with the V6 only

[duaned]

I reckon it come from this,


Or maybe that should come with every XR?

[smciner1]

I always thought it meant Experimental Racing.

[Nikked]

What does the "500" mean in Falcon 500 etc?

[Riksta]

Originally Posted by Nikked

lexcen must have a HSV sticker

Of course. Probably Chev badges too.

[Neale]

wikipidia is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XR_(Ford_Australia)

The term XR, first coined in 1991 on the EB Falcon, is a term used to describe some high-performance Ford vehicles in Australia. A common misconception about the designation is that it was borrowed from Ford Europe where it stands for 'Experimental Research', when, in fact, it was a tribute to the 1966 XR Falcon, the first Falcon model to offer a V8 engine option.[1] The first XR's were the XR6, S-XR6 and XR8 (these names were applied to the more performance oriented Ford Falcons) and the XR2 (Ford Capri). The number after the "XR" is used on Falcons to designate the amount of cylinders the cars engine has. Showed following are the cars that the XR name has been applied to

[flappist]

Originally Posted by Neale

wikipidia is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XR_(Ford_Australia)

The term XR, first coined in 1991 on the EB Falcon, is a term used to describe some high-performance Ford vehicles in Australia. A common misconception about the designation is that it was borrowed from Ford Europe where it stands for 'Experimental Research', when, in fact, it was a tribute to the 1966 XR Falcon, the first Falcon model to offer a V8 engine option.[1] The first XR's were the XR6, S-XR6 and XR8 (these names were applied to the more performance oriented Ford Falcons) and the XR2 (Ford Capri). The number after the "XR" is used on Falcons to designate the amount of cylinders the cars engine has. Showed following are the cars that the XR name has been applied to

Wow the XR50 must have a big engine.......

Wiki is written by random internerds and is often very wrong or at least agenda focussed.

I had a laugh at the war between a GT zealot and a F6 zealot a few years ago when they got upset over each other stating that their "precious" was quicker than the other's. The page was edited with contradicting text almost hourly.

[Nikked]

...i till say the euro XR meaning is more the truth...given that Tickford is english and had a hand in the fast fords of europe...

[TC200six]

That statement on Wikipedia claiming that "XR" was named after the XR Falcon had a cited source from a carsales article. Click on it and read it on the linked article.

The 1980s were barren times for fans of Blue Oval performance Down Under. Ford’s axing of the legendary 302 and 351 cubic inch Cleveland V8s in 1983, when the full-size XE model was out-stripping the smaller Commodore in the sales race, left the Falcon brand without a halo car.

Australian performance enthusiasts were therefore forced towards Holden’s Commodore, its V8 somehow adapting to survive not only the change to unleaded fuel in 1986, but the introduction of a cleaner, greener electronic age.

By 1991, the fuel injected 5.0-litre V8 in the VN Series Commodore was a smooth and potent performer that had no discernable local competition. Additionally its unbroken competition pedigree developed a legion of young followers whose automotive loyalties were decided on street cred and race results.

Ford had no choice but to act, and the 5.0-litre (actually 4949cc) Mustang V8 motor found its way under the EB Series Falcon’s bonnet. To celebrate the return of the V8, Ford introduced a new model based on the Falcon S-Pack and initially known as the S-XR8. The ‘XR’ nameplate was a neat nod back to the first Aussie Falcon to gain V8 motivation, the XR range of 1966.

Now 20 years on from the S-XR8, the XR badge lives on as the pinnacle of Ford performance, and here we celebrate four of the most significant models.

[leonbray]

That article would ignore the fact that XR was Ford's global performance derivative designation, not just in the US but in Europe and South Africa.

The first XR8 was the South African Sierra in 1984 http://www.sierra-xr8.co.uk/about_th...ut_the_XR8.htm and the numerical designation can be from several sources, not just the number of cylinders

There is no way I would reference a carsales article as definitive. More than likely the product developers could get the tooling for the badges cheap so they decided to go with the XR designation

[4bbl]

Originally Posted by Nikked

What does the "500" mean in Falcon 500 etc?

Bathurst was a 500 mile race ounce upon a time

[Nikked]

Originally Posted by 4bbl

Bathurst was a 500 mile race ounce upon a time

It was used in america aswell...

Daytona 500?

[Poorboy_racer]

and the XR2 (Ford Capri).

Am sure the XR2 was a Fiesta not Capri. XR3 was the Escort. Back when those cars were new my uncle was managing director of Ford Truck company UK. He drove an XR3 with the Ghia interiour that was specally made for him and his wife had an XR2 with Ghia interiour that was made specally for her. Both were colored a gun metal grey colour that was not available for those cars. Would have been worth a bit back then. He did actually have a one off custom 2.8 injection Capri, and a couple of Cosworths along the way.