RWD all-Australian Falcon future hanging in the balance

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Originally Posted by Gobes32

I personally still feel that Mondeo will replace Falcon in 2013, why people keep suggesting Taurus is beyond me. If anything the Mondeo and Taurus will share their next chassis and the skin finish will depend on the local markets taste.

i.e Europe will keep the Mondeo name and will build a car to euro tatse, US will still call their car the Taurus and place a large chrome grill on the front to please american taste, whether or not Australia will call their car the Falcon or not remains to be seen. But it will receive subtle changes to suit the Oz market.

Ford US has already announced that the next gen Mondeo and Fusion will share the same platform. They also announced yesterday that Ford will no longer share platforms with Mazda but instead design their own original platforms, so expect the next gen Mondeo and Fusion to be on the Mondeo architecture or a completely new architecture.

The 2010 Taurus shares the platform with the Lincoln MKS. I believe these vehicles will share the same platform for a while to come. The MKS was the first to use it. Mulally had the engineers design a new Taurus, that would be deserving of the famed Taurus name, from it.


Steve