If Ford is thinking anything like General Motors is, the blue oval might be considering importation of the Australian-market Ford Falcon into the United States. Photos of the latest high-performance Falcon were leaked to an Australian website.
Ford has been tight-lipped on whether the Falcon will see its steering wheel move over to the left for U.S. roads, like the Pontiac G8 that GM created from Holden’s VE Commodore. The seventh-generation Falcon shown in these photos, codenamed “Orion,” has reportedly been developed in both right- and left-hand drive variants.
These photos were apparently published in The Herald Sun in Australia, but they were found by one of the newspaper’s readers after a Ford meeting. The Falcon in the photos is likely the production version, which will be shown in March at the Melbourne Motor Show.
The orange car is the FPV-6 Typhoon, the blue is the FPV-GT and the white is the FPV-GT-P. While we don’t know detailed specifications for any of those models yet, at least we have an indication of the model lineups. FPV is Ford’s Australian performance group, similar to the now-defunct SVT in the U.S.
