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Taking flight with the Falcon Ford Falcon XR6

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Weekend Wheels Bay events:

February 28: Day-Night Sprints – TECT All Terrain Park Aspiring rally drivers will have a chance to prove themselves against Tauranga rally driver Phil Campbell on Saturday at the second round of the Tauranga Hire Day/ Night Sprints at TECT All Terrain Park. Details: www.mbop.org.nz March 1: All Ford Day - Blake Park Tauranga’s Ford Muscle Club will hold its annual celebration of everything relating to the oval blue badge with a display of Fords at Blake Park. The fundraising event for Child Cancer Foundation’s Tauranga branch, will run from 10am-3pm, with prizegiving at 2.30pm. Details: www.fordmusclecars.org.nz March 14: Midget Championships – Baypark Speedway Looking for action? The Flamecrusher North Island Midget Championships promises plenty of on-track excitement, with supporting action from sprint cars, super saloons, mini stocks and saloons. Gates open at 5pm, with racing from 6.30pm.

Details: www.bayparkspeedway.co.nz/events March 15: Hillclimb - Ngongotaha Round 3 of Rotorua Car Club’s Ngongotaha Hillclimb will be held on Mountain Rd, following the earlier two rounds on the tarmac road in February. The event earns points for Motorsport BOP Club’s championship series. Details: www.mbop.org.nz

Beyond the Bay

February 28: Junior Dragster Champs – Meremere Dragway Upcoming young dragsters will compete at Meremere in the hope of carving out a name to be watched. Gates open 9am with racing from 10am.

Details: www.dragway.co.nz March 14-15: Hot Rod Nationals – Meremere Dragway Bragging rights are up for grabs at the New Zealand International Hot Rod Association Nationals, with events in all classes including modified bike, top street, competition, supercharged outlaws and top alcohol. Racing from 10am.

Details: www.dragway.co.nz March 25-29: Beach Hop – Whangamata Classic motoring enthusiasts and fans of all things Americana are in for a treat with the annual Repco Beach Hop offering a week of events and entertainment starting with the Go Waihi Warm-up party on March 25, culminating in the Meguiars Main Street Car Show in Whangamata on Saturday March 28 and the Coca Cola Nostalgia Surf Fest on Sunday March 29. Details: www.beachhop.co.nz

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Big bird of prey Props courtesy of Tauranga Tandem Skydiving, 574 8533 and Wingspan, Rotorua.

There’s an impressive loyalty among true-blue Ford Falcon fanatics. Not just on the race track, but in everyday life. You see it permeating the ranks of farmers, sales reps, families and executives.

An incredibly wide range of people who drive the big car and appreciate it’s dogged characteristics.

Reliably smooth, solid, plenty of grunt and legendary Ford handling.

Even as the Falcon soars into its twilight years, with the last of the iconic Fords to roll off the production line at the end of 2016, Falcon fans know what they like and what they want. They’re buying Falcon to the bitter end.

Bay Driver found out why this week, taking a cruise in the big new Falcon XR6. Looking sharp in winter white, with spoked 19-inch alloys driven by a super smooth, four litre 6 cylinder petrol engine.

The Falcon is loaded with technology, niceties and clever engineering. But overall the most impressive feature were its presence, its attitude and feeling of sheer space, strength and comfort.

On the road the Falcon just feels good. Stable and assured. After all, this is a big car. This is no waif of a girl fluttering around the streets.

This is a woman of substance and integrity. If Nigella was a car, she’d be a Ford Falcon.

Call me sexist, but she’s a man’s car.

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The power is immediate and constant through the six speed auto, with sequential sports shift. She hitches up her rompers and goes. The 6 cylinder engine belts out 195kW of power and 391 Nm of torque. Falcon is tow rated to 2.3 tonnes braked.

Technology has brought Falcon a long way from the days of the big guzzlers, too. The quoted combined fuel economy is 9.5 litres/100km.

And you realise you’re not dealing with any lightweight bimbo when it comes to slowing – the full inertia of this beast underway is immediately tamed by some XOS braking gear, including ABS, electronic brake-

force distribution and dynamic stability control.

I’ve always liked Ford’s handling. Even back to the days in a couple of Lasers, the Fords had a sort of precision around corners that was assured and stable.

This big bird is even more emphatic, helped by inherent low ballast, sleek profile tyres and a wide track.

Sitting on 19” by 8” alloys and 245/35 rubber, she grips the road and propels you out onto the straight like a Ukranian shotputter. The one with the big thighs.

Safe and stylish

Falcon is equally well endowed on the safety front. Airbags for the front seats, front side thorax, and side curtains.

It all adds up to a five-star ANCAP rating.

Interior features include incredibly intuitive controls, which are stylish but simple to find and use. Apart from the stack of wifi, sat nav, Bluetooth and audio trinketry, there’s a massive eight inch colour touchscreen telling you everything.

The leather seats are a real nice feature, with tasteful panels and stitching that is quite eye-catching. And there’s acres of it!

Around town was surprisingly easy, there’s no doubting you are driving a big car. But it’s made very easy with the proximity sensors and a brilliant backing camera that flicks onto the big screen when reverse is selected, showing your projected track and proximity warnings that are simple and clear.

Our test drive took us through the city, beyond the highway and onto some less-than-perfect back country roads.

Over this varying collection of surfaces, the Falcon is always at home. Nothing fazes this car, tackling uneven terrain, twisty hills and poorly cambered corners with an almost arrogance of surety.

The sport select was a joy to use, again smooth, seamless and exacting. Although the automatic is so clever, seeming to always be in the perfect gear at the right moment; the manual shifter was just as satisfying. But, hey it’s a man thing. Sometimes we just need to think we are in charge.

And while all this manly driving was going on, there was a heap of background entertainment and connection happening. Handsfree music, voice control and music streaming.

Voice activated climate control allows the driver and passenger to set and maintain optimal environment, by simply telling the car what you want.

It’s more than just clever gimmicks. It’s seriously clever safety. Being able to make phone calls and transfer them between the car audio system and phone means you can call family and friends by name, without missing a nanosecond of the driving responsibility.

Even the sat nav takes directions, which makes a refreshing change.

Taking any road conditions in its long stride, it’s easy to see why Falcon has been a favourite of farmers, high mileage travellers, caravan and boat owners, executives – and men who don’t watch cooking shows for the food.

By Brian Rogers

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