Ford Australia has brought to a close 54 years of local Falcon Ute production today, ahead of the company’s total withdrawal from Australian vehicle manufacturing in just 70 days’ time.

 

29 July 2016 

 

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http://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/last-ever-ford-falcon-ute-leaves-broadmeadows-44155

 

Edited July 31, 201610 yr by f-wolf

Sad times.

Saw this but didn't have the energy to post it up...I think I'd like to own a Ford ute, simply because they are so iconic they will be appreciated in coming years.

 

 That and I like to be able to take the wife to church on Sunday and the cops to market on Monday with the one car

I'd love one of these but for me it'd be committing financial suicide :(

 

a sad day, I'd love it if ford found another use for the barra 6cyl!

2 minutes ago, -Stever- said:

Saw this but didn't have the energy to post it up...I think I'd like to own a Ford ute, simply because they are so iconic they will be appreciated in coming years.

 

 That and I like to be able to take the wife to church on Sunday and the cops to market on Monday with the one car

 

 

Only good thing about all this is it's making me appreciate mine all the more. She's a keeper 

Another use for the Bara 6cyl would be to chain then to the ankles of everyone responsible for the death of two of our most iconic companies we ever produced. And then take them fishing.

Never to return like our car manufacturing companies.

It's an interesting situation. Given we are all Ford enthusiasts how many have actually purchased a New Ford from a Ford dealer?

It's a good point. I get annoyed with friends bagging the government for not protecting the manufacturers more and then showing me their new Mazda or Subaru.

At the end of the day a) we haven't collectively bought enough cars from them and b) they haven't built (or been allowed by parent companies to build) what we collectively want.

I think we all would have bought them brand new if we didn't have mortgages and children to put through college. 

And a spare $45,000 to $65,000 would have helped as well.

Territory was the closest we got to adapting to a changing market. that's a shout out to the SUV and soft roader crowd lol....