Falcon is saved!

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Originally Posted by Dr Smith

Do you think Ford US needs a Taurus? I think they sold 74,000 last year which might sound a lot however if, on a per cap basis it matched Falcon they should have sold around 380,000!!!

Incremental Scales of economy offered by D3 platform means that Taurus is part of 20,000 vehicles a month,
the future plan is to transfer it to Fusion platform so that it adds sales to the +20,000 vehicles there.

Closing down CV production shifts police sales to continuing Taurus/Explorer PI vehicles
and eliminates production capacity and workforce, improving Ford's return before a new PI is sold.

What does Ford do with rwd Falcon, awd/rwd Territory, fwd/awd Taurus, and some other premium rwd car?

Next Falcon development either shares engineering modules with Mustang program or with FWD/AWD Fusion/Taurus/Edge program.
Either one could be beneficial to FoA depending on what China's big car needs are, big car might be more to do with China's needs than Australia.