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Dear Falcon Fanatics,
Ford manufacturing employees, designers and engineers were today joined by 350 of the most fanatic Falcon fans who were given the opportunity to experience the machine first hand in what’s been billed as the Falcon Fanatics Day at Avalon Airport near Geelong. The day allowed the team to showcase the Falcon XR while engaging with fans in addition to capturing exciting video content ahead of the car’s launch next month. Spearheaded by Mark Winterbottom and joined by reigning Bathurst 1000 winner Chaz Mostert, Fanatics lined the tarmac this morning to form a human raceway, as Frosty demonstrated the truly exhilarating drive of the FG X XR8. We are overwhelmed with the overall response from the community, attending from all parts of Australia and although sadly we could not cater to all of our adoring fans we were thrilled with the reception at today’s event. You can view the images from today here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1398200&type=1 Fanatically yours, Bob Graziano Ford President and CEO |
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What's with the trend to take photo's on a 45deg angle ?
It certainly doesn't improve the picture, just makes it harder to see.
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I've got some vids I'll upload as soon as I get back to Brisbane.
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17-10-2014, 10:16 PM
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Damn, seeing all of the falcons together just makes me sad that this is the last ever.
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White looks awesome. Thanks for the photos guys
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18-10-2014, 12:32 PM
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More again (sorry taking time to upload them all)
      
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Ute looks the business in that shot...nice one.
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did they bring all the ecolpi cars to the event I can see alot of the promo cars have lpg badges my old man bought a 2012 fg mk2 ecolpi I love it he had a bf mk3 egas wagon before that and the diffrence in power and economy are night and day and the 6spd auto is magic if I had the coin I would buy a fgx ecolpi xr6 ute in a heartbeat
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Damned nice looking car, one of the best since the early 2000's.
Can't afford a new one, but I'll pick up one of those 2nd hand utes. Yumbo!
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18-10-2014, 03:47 PM
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One of the drive experience cars was an ecolpi.
Not sure how many others were there though.
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XR8 stunt rehearsal with Frosty.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zpMC6Nxz-wc 0-100m sprint & Stop in XR8. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SYaPNm1N2MI
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Big thanks to Ford and FPR for putting on such a great day, nonstop entertainment between filming, drive experiences & onstage interviews.
And complimentary hot food, cold & hot drinks was available all day long. Was great to meet a lot of other forum members & putting faces to names. A huge thanks to Shane(Smciner1) for going to the trouble of picking me up & dropping me off at the train afterwards, great bloke! #FalconFanatic
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Was an interesting trip back on the train. lol
Ended up getting a cab from Southern Cross to the airport for peace of mind. Would do it all again in a heartbeat!
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18-10-2014, 05:51 PM
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Link below to all the pics I took yesterday, I ended up taking 145! I took a photo of every car in the hanger as well for those interested. Was a great day already been down to the dealer today about pricing on an XR8 lol
https://www.facebook.com/cholford/me...4474751&type=1
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Was there any news we didn't know in the interviews held?
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Bob hinted at continued sponsorship of FPR in V8's that's probably about it.
Another confirmed tidbit is XR8 doesn't have launch control of the RSpec/GTF.
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Did anyone ask Bob about V8supercars?
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So was that white car an XR8 on gas,,,,,Are they doing an EcoLPI XR8???
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They had 2 XR8's there, a blue one that was used as the drive car and the gold one that was the one they used for filming. There was also a Gold XR6T you could go for a drive in, I did XR8 and XR6T back to back and I can guarantee you the XR8 is MUCH quicker than the turbo.
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The XR8 designers and engineers were also there, from what they were saying it sounds like there will be 1200 XR8's and that's it. Nothing official, but when they were pressed for info, one of them said they had 1200 of every part ready to go and hadn't made any more.
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