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As of today, Journalists will be wiriting up the new FG line up..

I got these figures from drive.com.au for the xr6t

0-100km/h: 5.1 seconds

0-400m: 13.4 seconds

Top speed after 400m: 172km/h

From the article:

For the record, the air-conditioning was on. There were no stunts, no tricks, we just squeezed the accelerator. It did it like it was brushing its teeth.

This not only makes the latest Falcon XR6 Turbo the fastest Falcon to date, it also shoots it to the top of the leader board in Australian performance cars. It’s faster than both the Holden V8s and its own big brother, the Falcon XR8 (which stopped the clocks at a comparatively slow 6.3 seconds).

Since the FPV F6 is expected to come with a 310kw figure, expect the 0-100 acceleration time be in 4 seconds and quarter mile in on mid to high 12 seconds

http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleD...;vf=12&pg=2

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Is it just me or does every photo of the new Falcon look like it has a really skinny trackwidth?

GT-R times will be much quicker than the Falcon.

I've seen a couple fg xr's on the road and they appear some what smaller than BA/BF's.. also from what I have read, tracks for both front and rear were widened.

Ford Aus promises this car to be the best handling Aussie built car to date.

hell yeah

bring on the fpv f6

it was always said that the BA/BF were the best looking fords ever built - i think they have surpassed that with the FG

very very stylish....

(i dont think there is a common exterior panel between the BF and FG)

i wonder :thumbsup: if it will have shitty ill fitting plastic bits in it and other things that fall off or break :laugh:

parents have a territory AWD ghia and nothings fallen off yet (and its 2 yrs old...)

Not bad. You'd think theyd release photos that aren't in a shit colour...

Car companies always take the most eye-catching colour since it photographs the best.

From Nissan's perspective, look at the horrible Sunset LeMans orange (and the new solar orange) that most of the 350Zs in the promo posters etc are shown in. Really vibrant when printed, and it comes off the background well, but in the metal its really tacky.

The old BA/BF performance Fords had their promo / press cars in that sickly green, too. Great to shoot, bad to look at.

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