Unloved Autos Spotlight: 1995 Ford Falcon XR6, The Australians Strike Back!
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- In the Spotlight Series this week, we take a look at the 1995 Ford Falcon XR6 ute, a right-hand drive gem from the days when Australia had its own unique auto industry.
Nice , I probably worked on that ute back in the 90s when I was at Selwyn Ford in Palmerston North.👍
Very cool!
The rear registration plate screws to the spare tyre drop down door.
I recognised the NZ plate, this is still in the vehicle registration system here, cool as.
very cool! love the falcon
these cars are rare in australia and are sky rocketing in price
That ute has been around. From Australia to New Zealand and now in the USA. Kind of fitting it's in prostitute red... 😂
the number plate.. goes just behind the towbar..and I think that's the spare tyre is kept.
Love the New Zealand number plate on the front, says Palmerston North, I'm sitting 70km away from there watching this.
That is so cool!
Some information for you:
* Going by the dash and also the front panels this car is XF series (1984 - 1988)
* The plate (tag) on the front bumper is from New Zealand, 100%. Australian ones are VERY different to that one.
Hope this helps.
Great setting for this video! The grab bar in the bed is very cool - I'm ready for a ride!
Any time!
I love my 96 xh xr6 manual it’s slightly modified bit better than the older XG with the floppy bonnet and out dated front suspension
Still plenty of them floating around here in new zealand great utes
Had:a 4.0L XF in Caribbean Green.
My profile picture is in my opinion the best car I have ever owned, unfortunately I sold it and have regretted it ever since. It’s a 1995 Ford Falcon EF XR8 option 20
Put a big exhaust on and listen to that big six howl....I have a three inch exhaust on my Tickford Six...They sound Awesome ...nice Ute welcome to the Aussie Blokes club !
I’ve always appreciated the performance cars that Australia had. That UTE XR8 has to be a hoot to drive. 5.4L manual.
I hope to find out someday!
Ive owned a number of xg utes The xg didn't come in a 3.2 or 3.9, what makes the xr6 different is a body kit and tune
Thanks for the information!
Nice example
VB is the beer 🍺 to drink in Australia 🇦🇺 it actually gets you drunk 😂
The NA inline 6’s are quick but they are more tuquie for towing stuff like that specially the Barra motors
3.2 and 3.9 never came in the XG. The base model (not XR6) still had the 4.0L six, but made less power without the Tickford package. It also came with boring square headlights, not the cool quad lights you have there.
That would be THE ONLY one in the US ! Being from NZ, I recognised the number plate instantly. I've had a handful of Aussie Falcon's, but my 2001 XR8 with the Tickford Hand Built 5.0L Windsor is the most special. These last pushrod engines took the builder a whole day per engine, and made 295hp, 55hp more than the '94 Mustang Cobra. Came with Gt40p heads with bigger intake/exhaust valves 70mm throttle body, roller rockers, mild port matching, unique camshaft and headers as standard. Every engine was hot run tested, and has a plaque on the rocker cover saying HAND BUILT WITH PRIDE, and the builders signature etched in !!
25 year mark, start looking at the AU XR6/XR8 in the near future
yeah I think the Americans will love the AU Falcon especially the XR range ones.
Your Boss 302 Laguna Seca was a real future classic, even racier than the original in my opinion !!
XG never came out in sedan or wagon. The new EA Falcons only came out in sedan and wagon and didn't have a ute or panel van, so they continued with the XF panel van and ute bodies and made them the XG.
the last of the "V8 Interceptors" is based on the XA to XC Series (so 1971 to 1979) Falcon sedan.
Here is the issue though, the one everyone remembers and wants is actually a "Super Pursuit" black XB Coupe with the "Concord" front end design treatment is not an "Interceptor" which was the regular Falcon 4 door sedan, moving along.
What you have (Falcon ute) is basically a "XD" chassis (1979) with "XF" body (1987) (save for the quad headlight treatment) with an "ED" engine (1993) with the quad headlight treatment which also came from the same era "ED Falcon XR8 Sprint" sedan which was also a Tickford* enhanced vehicle.
*Tickford during this time was a 51% owned by Ford Australia 49% owned by TVE United Kingdom (Tickford Vehicle Engineering) company that Ford Australia contracted to make "enhanced" Ford Australia cars like Falcon, Capri, Laser and Telstar (not sure if the USA ever got Mazda 626 from 1980's 1990's era), the Australian made cars rolled off the production line in Campbellfield Victoria and then went across the road to Tickford were they were enhanced.
Engine wise Tickford did: head, extractors, cam upgrade, different engine and fuel map , extra cooling for radiator, transmission, enhanced the steering and suspension and of course the exterior and interior, they also made the XR8 version where the 8 was for V8 as in a Windsor 4.9L (302ci) enhanced fuel injected V8 which was also used in various North American Mustang but heavily revised for right hand drive and fit into the Falcon engine bay, yours being an automatic its a 4-speed electronic (2 drive modes: Power and Economy) control BTR (re: Borg Warner) torque converter made in Australia.
Power and torque (in metric) for this particular engine is 161kW at 5,500rpm and 364Nm from 3,000 rpm to 4,000rpm (yes it has a flat torque curve), its a simple 12-valve (so 2 valves per cyl) alloy head with SINGLE OHC on an iron block 4.0L displacement with Multipoint (batch fired) EFI.
This example being a New Zealand specification does not have to comply with the ADR (Australia Design Rules) so there are minor variance differences like steering wheel and number plate holders.
Anyway nice video, please try to keep the ol Falcon in decent condition and if you want more history about these cars just ask.
Thanks for so much valuable information. I’m going to print your comment and include it in my file.
Such thorough info. Thanks for sharing.
@@unlovedautos - cheers. again please keep the ol Falcon in good condition, we love the Falcon (and Commodore - Australia's two local home grown fighters) and love to see them overseas showing the world what we had was so great for our home market.
Sadly Australia stopped making cars in 2017, that said we do now "remanufacture" basically convert from LHD to RHD trucks like the F-150, Tundra, Ram and Silverado but its not the same thing as what we used to have with Falcon (Ford), Commodore (General Motors Holden), Magna/380 (Mitshibishi) and Camry/Aurion Toyota).
all good.
Is it possible to import B series falcons into the US now? Amazing seeing a falcon in America
Cars need to be 25-years old to be imported, so we are getting close.
Theres space for a rear plate. Just get appropriate size.
Is that the inline Ford six they build insane power out of in Australia?
You're thinking of the "Barra 6", an eventual evolution of this block with twin cam 24 valve heads and variable valve timing.
@@64-bitMicro So that block could be modified pretty good then? Just need the head!
You are aware your car is actually from New Zealand? It has NZ plates even the rego label. They were built here too. So maybe change the beer to some decent NZ beer rather than the aussie excuse for beer 😅
I have a B Series XR6 Turbo, if you search Hubnut he did a UA-cam review on it while in New Zealand. Enjoy the ute, it's along way from home.
Thanks for the information. I knew that it came from New Zealand originally but did not mine they these cars were also manufactured there. I need to see if a New Zealand beer is available in this area. I will definitely check out the video.
New zealand assembled* you just got given complete knock down kits and had to stop when cars got too advanced to wack together from a box.
@@DarrellWilkerson4.6 CKD was the domestic industry here until 1998; local industry could not compete economically with used imports going forward.
As others have said. Replace that beer flavoured beverage with some VB.
(Absolutely no one here drinks fosters)
No one drinks Foster's here. Never see it in a bottle shop. Mainly brewed offshore under license
I bought a can of Foster's here in Texas just for fun after reading these comments. It was brewed in Fort Worth, Texas. Amazing.
That's a New Zealand license plate, not Australian
If you ever need any help for parts etc reach out mate
Thanks, I will!
Incase you don't know No Australian drinks Foster's , it's shit beer!
Haha, I have no reason to dispute that. See my above comment-response about Fosters.
Dude...Its a Baza McEnzie legend...lol.
I bought a can of Foster's here in Texas just for fun after reading these comments. It was brewed in Fort Worth, Texas. Amazing.
Hope you have spare door handles mate.
Are they doomed to fail?
cool to see but you do realise that a lot (and i mean a LOT) of australians dont drink fosters
For years, Fosters’ marketing tag in America was “Fosters, it’s Australian for beer.” I’m sure folks there drink mostly other types of beer, but it is the only one that most Americans associate with Australia, so people get the reference when I display the cans at car shows.
The reason they are rare is people parking them in the grass like you. Hot exhaust meets dry grass. What a pity
Yep, the shorn wheat fields are absolutely full of Ford Falcon carcasses. I always wondered why.