Ford Falcon XD - TV commercial

Ford Falcon XD - TV commercial

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Film & Animation

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• Ford
• XD
• Falcon
• TV
• commercial

[steveaustinrules]

awesome old xd falcon gotta love them

[ives2071]

can't believe they compared the economy of a small car with an XD falcon.... WTF

[joh2]

@JBofBrisbane Ah no, the XD Falcon was only loosely influenced by the Granada&was a different animal entirely-only the headlamps are the same.When new, Wheels Magazine showed photographs of XD clay mockups-at one point they were going to use carry-over XC doors, and an idea for the utes was to simply use the XD front with the XC body from the firewall back.

The approach that you describe was used on the Mitsubishi Magna however - being literally a widened Japanese FWD Galant...

[FGalaxie]

@LTD92DC 4 cylinders of that era werent exacly suprtb either back then either though.

Unless you bought something European and expensive.

they were gutlessslugs that liked a drink

[LTD92DC]

@FODASSEZOR Yeah that's exactly it. I think it's a brilliant ad, especially the part about passing the truck, but the economy bit is over-reaching, especially as they most economical engine they had to offer was a 3.3L single barrel carby 6, hardly the most efficient unit going around

[durko83]

fuck the add guys lowered this Falcon a bit. no standard XD Ive seen sits this nice, and I love X series.

[JBofBrisbane]

@GanEdenAustralia @femi1glass - I believe that for the body of "Project Blackwood", Ford Australia took the body panels from the then-current Granada and widened the body about four inches in the middle to fit the existing XC Falcon platform.

[ferni1glass]

ford taunus

[boob72]

The worst designed door handles on any car ever built....

[GanEdenAustralia]

Ford Granada look-a-like

[FODASSEZOR]

"Economy that makes some of your small cars..... well, look even better by comparison."

Don't get me wrong I love these cars, I own two of them but even trying to convince anyone they're economical is ridiculous.

[joh2]

@JBofBrisbane They were serious about putting the 4-cylinder into the XE Falcon, but thankfully Ford saw the light on that one. They unfortunately look like they are repeating this approach with putting a 2.0L Ecoboost 4-cylinder unit into upcoming Falcons...

As it was, the Holden Starfire 4-cylinder (literally the Holden 2.85 6-cylinder with 2 cylinders lopped off) did not fare well with the Commodore of the time and was dropped. Ditto the NZ market Holden VN Berlina, which had a 2.0L 4...