2009 Ford Falcon could go front-wheel drive

"You guys are obsessed with rear controls appeal," Alan Mulally mused to the Australian prosecute after a browbeating about which pair of wheels might thrust the Falcon into the coming. Try as they might, the Ford Chief would not be pinned down about the skeleton architecture of impending Falcons, aphorism only that the option would be buyer ambitious, and plugging front and all-circle send vehicles as "cute spectacular." Mulally is right that Ford's worldwide boost to put exceptional small cars in showrooms is what the automaker's focus is and should be. The Falcon has long fallen off its sales acme from the quiet time of two decades ago, and while Mulally agrees that it's "an absolutely destroy vehicle," small cars in the hope will crutch up the more function-y vehicles like the FG Falcon. Mulally went onto say that Australia will serve as an engineering and significance development station for Ford, and the big-vehicle aptitude in Oz will be practical regardless of present. As Ford pulls its total platforms together, the Ranger and Focus will come at us from Australia, too.

While we all hope we could load our driveways with a FPV GT generous Paul Stanley eye frame and Boss V8 motivation, we're not share our breath. Ford doesn't look to be next GMs advantage bringing its Australian cars stateside, and the V8s time may be numbered. Mulally acknowledged that fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions are departing to be tremendously important departure onward, which will expected spur an alter to lesser four- and six-cylinder powerplants with forced induction portion as the performance option. A FG FPV with an Ecoboost four underhood? Heck, we'd still take it - it's sure to be better than the mush-tastic fleet-only Crown Victoria.

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