Wheels take a Sprint 8 on a road trip

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http://www.wheelsmag.com.au/features...to-the-finish/


2016 Ford Falcon XR8 Sprint: A Sprint to the finish
By Wheels staff
|Jun 30, 2016
|Features


Farewelling a legend; Ponch’s emotional petrol bender in Ford’s final fast Falcon.

Let’s get the numbers out of the way. Three days, 2497km, 33 hours of wheel time, 312 litres of fuel, 73km/h average speed and 12.7L/100km. They’re not really that important. This is a celebration, not a dissection. The Falcon XR8 Sprint is Ford’s departure gift to its die-hard loyalists and if ever an Aussie car was measured in something other than numbers this is it.

Ford -Falcon -XR8-Sprint -dirt -drifting -rearWe could talk about the Sprint’s static camber tune and refinements to the front suspension jounce bumpers all day, but when it comes to the ability to paint a big grin on your face, show always works better than tell.

Ford -Falcon -XR8-Sprint -rear -petrol -bowserRather than just point the Sprint’s nose at a remote part of the map and see what happened, Ponch and snapper Thomas Wielecki had a plan in mind, aiming to mine a little bit of Blue Oval nostalgia along the way. The 50th anniversary of the J.R. Sealey dealership in Condobolin, NSW was all the justification that was required, to go west.

[project 064]

I purchased the magazine, last time I flew back to Karratha, not a bad read at all.

[TICK4D-TAS]

I thought it was the same as the magazine i had i read.

[FTe217]

Having looked at this article a few times, some pics of the S8 look bloody great !
The first 2, the Launch, bottom 3 top shots.

[Randel]

Still shits me the way some of these journos treat the cars..... wonder if they would do that to their own brand new car.....