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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.
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