What’s on the menu?
What’s the highest number of kms you've had out of a Falcon?
Another point to ad to OPs list, handling, road holding and ride quality.
Simply no other car in the price range that could compete and that likely still stands today.
I’d often fly out of Auckland airport and get a one way rental from Wellington 600km away.
Had most of what Avis, Budget, Apex rentals etc offered (except premium) and raped them all on the back roads. The SV6 and XR6 were in their element of covering long distances at speed. Throw them into corners at nearly twice the advisory speed and they soak up any road undulations with no drama.
To contrast all the trash that has replaced them from the other makers Toyota, Kia, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Mazda are so awful at any form of spirited driving that I’d only take them on the back roads once to see how bad they actually are. Most are like lipstick on a pig, relying on larger wider wheels to mask their **** suspension set up.
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