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Originally Posted by JPFS1
There are lots of p!ssed off engineers looking at 12 months of wasted development, effort and dedication. Programs are back to the drawing board... again.... things up in the air, more cost being stripped etc. The backflip decision hasn't come cheap and we could well be looking at the last Aus falcon because of this. Short term positive for Geelong, long term negative for Falcon. We shall see.
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It was cheaper to switch back to the I6 than continue to fit a V6 that was never meant to fit in the first place. Tom Gorman strikes again.
This decision has nothing to do with wether there will be another new Falcon or not, its the sales figures that will determine that, nothing else matters anywhere near as much.
I think the decision was done so that it makes it easier to shut the whole place down as one piece in 2013 rather than do it one bit at a time, and pay a heap of money to fit a new engine that may have only been used for 3 years. Either that or if there is an all new Falcon in 2013 it will be designed from the start to take the V6. The FG surely wasn't.