Carsales 2012 Australia's Best Cars - Falcon and Focus win categories

[a_misfit]

Carsales just posted their 2012 best Australian cars winners.

Falcon won for second year in row.
Focus won for best small over 35k for titanium model

http://www.carsales.com.au/news/2012...0yMCZObmU9MjA.

[Mad_Pom]

Great news !!!!

Now if we could only get the EcoBoost in an XR trim ..... we can all dream ;o)

[FordACE]

That's great news. Hopefully the Ecoboost will pick up some sales.

[robertjp]

Ralphie!

[blueoval]

http://www.australiasbestcars.com.au...arge_under.htm

[Sinead Phipps]

Hey folks, the awards today are actually the Australia's Best Cars, which are awarded by the combined motoring clubs around Australia - ie: RACV, NRMA etc. All up, they have more than 7 million members so these awards are really big news. Focus Titanium won the Best Small Car over $35k and Falcon EcoBoost won the Best Large Car Award. Even better than that, the judges also announced that their consensed pick of the bunch across all the categories and the cars they rated (335 models), was the Falcon EcoBoost. That's a great endorsement and you can expect to see it feature in some press advertising later this week.

[russellw]

Ford Australia has won two coveted awards in the 2012 motoring organisations’ annual Australian Best Cars Awards.
Against a line-up of world-class vehicles, the six-speed automatic Focus Titanium turbo-diesel was voted country’s Best Small Car over $35,000 in the 2012 motoring organisations’ annual Best Cars Awards.
Ford Falcon G6 EcoBoost was also voted Best Large Car Under $60,000.
Judges praised Ford for its work on the Falcon EcoBoost by providing a more fuel efficient response to large car motoring, saying it was “definitely a sign of moving with the times”.
“The EcoBoost is arguably the best mainstream Falcon ever built, bettering the scores of last year’s winner, its sibling the LPG-fuelled six-cylinder Falcon EcoLPi in some key areas,” judges said.
Ford President and CEO, Bob Graziano, said the twin awards for the Focus Titanium TDCi and Falcon G6 EcoBoost were a validation of the high levels of engineering work that went into both vehicles.
“More importantly, they provide a good benchmark for customers looking at either an Australian-designed and built large car or European-inspired small car,” he said.
“The Falcon EcoBoost is part of a suite of new technologies we’re delivering for customers. The 2.0-litre EcoBoost engine represents world-class Ford technology available right here in Australia. It is the first rear-wheel application of this engine in a Ford anywhere in the world and we’re very proud of it.
“Importantly, when we started work on fitting the EcoBoost engine in the Falcon, it was not simply a case of dropping the engine straight into the car.

“Significant local engineering work has been undertaken to make sure it met – and exceeded – the expectations of our customers. That meant delivering small-car fuel efficiency unheard of in a large car.”
The Falcon and Focus beat several leading finalists for the award, which combines the expertise of Australian Motoring Clubs including the NRMA, RACV, RACQ, RAA, RAC, RACT and AANT.
The EcoBoost engine develops 179 kW of power at 5500 rpm and 353Nm at 2000 rpm and in the Falcon XT sedan, delivers fuel efficiency of 8.1 litres / 100km (ADR 81/02). The EcoBoost engine is available in XT, G6 and luxury G6E sedan models.
In awarding the Focus Titanium turbo-diesel Australia’s Best Small Car Over $35,000, judges said: “It might be a surprise to some that a small car from the Blue Oval would stand in triumph over models from prestige European makers including BMW and Audi, and even a Lexus.
“But remember that Ford rely on their European divisions for their small car, which means it’s both sophisticated and well suited to our local market tastes.”
Judges also praised the Focus Titanium’s active and passive safety levels and technology, with the availability of SYNC in-car connectivity for both music and phone, as well as its standard Active Park Assist technology.

Australia’s Best Cars is one of the most comprehensive and independent consumer-focused vehicle testing and awards programs.

The development of the EcoBoost engine for Falcon was a key element of Ford’s $232 million investment in a range of sustainability initiatives across all of Ford’s local vehicle lines, including a new diesel engine for Territory and the high-tech EcoLPi engine for Falcon sedan and ute.

The EcoBoost was made possible with a $42 million Federal co-investment under the Green Car Innovation Fund, as well as co-investment provided by the Victorian Government.



Source: Ford Media

[superfly]

Great news. I certainly hope to see some advertising which will hopefully lead to more sales!

Well done Ford.

[Drizz06]

Oh man this just made my day! Great news for ford and keep those ecoboost ads rolling flat out!

[stev3n]

I was surprised to pick up today's Telegraph and see an add on the first page for the eco-boost enginge. The add on the front page directed you to an add on the back page, and it took up the whole back page. Great see see some aggresive marketing.

[chookaradley]

Originally Posted by stev3n

I was surprised to pick up today's Telegraph and see an add on the first page for the eco-boost enginge. The add on the front page directed you to an add on the back page, and it took up the whole back page. Great see see some aggresive marketing.

What he said. Was the same in todays Melbourne Herald-Sun. Guess its a National Marketing campaign. Really great to see, finally ford giving this car the chance it deserves

[Buntz]

Originally Posted by Sinead Phipps

Hey folks, the awards today are actually the Australia's Best Cars, which are awarded by the combined motoring clubs around Australia - ie: RACV, NRMA etc. All up, they have more than 7 million members so these awards are really big news. Focus Titanium won the Best Small Car over $35k and Falcon EcoBoost won the Best Large Car Award. Even better than that, the judges also announced that their consensed pick of the bunch across all the categories and the cars they rated (335 models), was the Falcon EcoBoost. That's a great endorsement and you can expect to see it feature in some press advertising later this week.

Is that another blatant plug from you Sinead?

Another Well done to you and the guys at Ford. You're on a role and doing a great job, keep it up, don't slow down.

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Great to see recognition for EcoBoost. Although I was hoping to see the Territory be the best SUV under 40k. (even thought it just scrapes under.)

[1TUFFUTE]

Originally Posted by blueoval

http://www.australiasbestcars.com.au...arge_under.htm

wow i am amazed at how bad the new 300 chrysler scored for its sedans. Way down in last with very poor scoring for EVERYthing bar features. Was interesting to notice the falcon in all forms whether it be ecoboost G6, xt falcon or XR6....well outperformed the holden offerings. Among other things the holden had very poor fuel consumption readings and was nearly 100 points overall behind the falcon.

Also was nice to see the FOCUS take a comfortable 35pt win over the competition.....great news and continues to prove to the australian public that ford aus still sells the best cars in some of the key sectors.

[Smoke Pursuit]

Originally Posted by 1TUFFUTE

wow i am amazed at how bad the new 300 chrysler scored for its sedans. Way down in last with very poor scoring for EVERYthing bar features. Was interesting to notice the falcon in all forms whether it be ecoboost G6, xt falcon or XR6....well outperformed the holden offerings. Among other things the holden had very poor fuel consumption readings and was nearly 100 points overall behind the falcon.

Also was nice to see the FOCUS take a comfortable 35pt win over the competition.....great news and continues to prove to the australian public that ford aus still sells the best cars in some of the key sectors.

Those 300 Chrysler's are overrated... Ugly ugly ugly cars.

[FERG_51]

Originally Posted by Sinead Phipps

Hey folks, the awards today are actually the Australia's Best Cars, which are awarded by the combined motoring clubs around Australia - ie: RACV, NRMA etc. All up, they have more than 7 million members so these awards are really big news. Focus Titanium won the Best Small Car over $35k and Falcon EcoBoost won the Best Large Car Award. Even better than that, the judges also announced that their consensed pick of the bunch across all the categories and the cars they rated (335 models), was the Falcon EcoBoost. That's a great endorsement and you can expect to see it feature in some press advertising later this week.

Perhaps you could give this to Koshi and the sunrise gang, although i doubt they would report on a good news Ford story. Lol

[csv8]

Thats great news !!! now for the V6 Ecoboost !!!!

[FERG_51]

Originally Posted by FERG_51

Perhaps you could give this to Koshi and the sunrise gang, although i doubt they would report on a good news Ford story. Lol

Well there you go, Mark Berretta made mention of this on the 7.00 am news this morning. Koshi made some comment about Falcon not selling, and Berretts fired back with this being the new 4cyl Falcon and how Australia has many more models of car to choose from than America.

[minheim]

Congrats to the team at Ford for a great outcome. Here's hoping the public appreciate the strength and depth of the brand and people it employs.

[Motorbreath310]

Glad I read it here. Probably won't see it mentioned in WHEELS or MOTOR magazines. Though Commodore is Australias favourite car or so I'm lead to believe.

[Joe5619]

Originally Posted by Sinead Phipps

Hey folks, the awards today are actually the Australia's Best Cars, which are awarded by the combined motoring clubs around Australia - ie: RACV, NRMA etc. All up, they have more than 7 million members so these awards are really big news. Focus Titanium won the Best Small Car over $35k and Falcon EcoBoost won the Best Large Car Award. Even better than that, the judges also announced that their consensed pick of the bunch across all the categories and the cars they rated (335 models), was the Falcon EcoBoost. That's a great endorsement and you can expect to see it feature in some press advertising later this week.

This is great news for Ecoboost.. Is there any plans for the Ecoboost engines to apear in XR trim levels?

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by Motorbreath310

Glad I read it here. Probably won't see it mentioned in WHEELS or MOTOR magazines. Though Commodore is Australias favourite car or so I'm lead to believe.

Not any more it ain't. Maybe Holden need to change it to "Australia's 5th favourite car", or whatever its ranked now.

[Motorbreath310]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

Not any more it ain't. Maybe Holden need to change it to "Australia's 5th favourite car", or whatever its ranked now.

Tongue in cheek comment. If Commodore had won this award, it'd make the cover of said magazines.

On a side note, had someone ask me today what make my car was (FG F6) the guy claimed to have only driven Falcons since the 60's, yet I had to explain to Him what FPV is/was and He hadn't heard of them?

[mik]

Originally Posted by Motorbreath310

Tongue in cheek comment. If Commodore had won this award, it'd make the cover of said magazines.

On a side note, had someone ask me today what make my car was (FG F6) the guy claimed to have only driven Falcons since the 60's, yet I had to explain to Him what FPV is/was and He hadn't heard of them?

yes it is amazing how it seems a lot of people truly don`t know much about the current Fords, talking to a mate of mine a few months ago, we where talking about new cars, and he came up with the comment ford in Australia does`nt have much of a range, i was a bit speechless for a minute, something happened and the conversation changed, it did`nt get a further mention, but what is surprising to me is my mate was a mechanic in younger years and is an AU fairmont owner, yet knows bugger all about current models, one wonders how many others are out there that don`t know what`s available..

[stang65]

Hi Sinead, just wanted to say the half page ad in the sun today the quality of the printed text was pretty bad the white on green background was hard time read and made it look out of focus.
Thought you would like to know .

[Buntz]

Seems that people just need to drive an EcoBoost to see how great they are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb62m41wFQI

[Buntz]

Originally Posted by FERG_51

Well there you go, Mark Berretta made mention of this on the 7.00 am news this morning. Koshi made some comment about Falcon not selling, and Berretts fired back with this being the new 4cyl Falcon and how Australia has many more models of car to choose from than America.

Is there anyway to see that on YouTube? I hope so, after this fallacy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kkvFYrjor8. What a moron that Koch. (Watch it guys but don't comment on it here.)