{"id":5180,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:29:56","slug":"new-ford-falcon-wont-be-exported-to-the-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5180","title":{"rendered":"New Ford Falcon won&#x27;t be exported to the States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#x27;s how the story goes. Back in early 2006, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/\">Ford<\/a> and the Australian government announced that the automaker would invest $100 million (Australian) to develop a left-hand-drive version of the next generation Falcon. The LHD Falcon was intended for export primarily to markets like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/middle-east\/\">Middle East<\/a> where rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/holden\/\">Holden<\/a> manages to sell quite a few Chevy-badged Commodores and Statesmans. Ford apparently decided that the potential sales volumes for the LHD Falcon weren&#x27;t sufficient to justify the effort and there wasn&#x27;t room in the car to accommodate the hardware. Unlike Holden, they evidently didn&#x27;t look far enough ahead in their initial engineering and decided it just wasn&#x27;t practical to do with the 2008 model. Instead, the government money will be used to expand production capacity for the next generation Focus in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a>, which will then be exported. Meanwhile, it looks like North American Ford fans will have to wait until 2012 when a new global rear-wheel-drive platform is introduced.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Drive.com.au]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/10\/22\/new-ford-falcon-wont-be-exported-t-the-states\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-10-22T10:29:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#x27;s how the story goes. Back in early 2006, Ford and the Australian government announced that the automaker would invest $100 million (Australian) to develop a left-hand-drive version of the next generation Falcon. The LHD Falcon was intended\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10227,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/10227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}