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New Falcon with 240kW Turbo Engin^an< Sequential Sports Shift. Can’t get enough Of this. > The new Falcon brings track performance to the road. When your foot goes down, your pulse goes up. It all starts with four new performance engines. The Barra 182 DOHC in-line six, the searing Barra 240T, the Barra 220 5.4L, 3V V8 and the Boss 260^ 5.4L, 4V V8.
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Adding further excitement is the Sequential Sports Shift on the automatic transmission.* Choose manual control or automatic mode with Adaptive Shift. Whichever you choose it’s a thrilling drive over and over.
New Falcon. Can’t get enough of this.
●Auto optional on Falcon XT and Falcon XR sedans,
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t 260kW Falcon XR8 engine available early 2003.
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motorsport news
Issue 242
16- 29 October 2002
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One lap from disaster How Skaife made it by that much Give this man a drive! Is Greg Ritter set to become a one-man silly season? Schuey in a Jag FIA makes some bizarre FI proposals
10 introducing... The BA and Nations Cup Monaro break cover 25 Motor Mouth Eric Bana: Actor, comedian, Ford fan 28 Box Seat Saward deals with some weighty issues 82 Taik Converter The bit of the magazine that you write and we read
foaturos AO riV6 Minutes wiin tne Datnurst winners, oksits sno Kicno noio cuun 30 Five minutes with Jack Brabham He's almost certainly won way more GPs than you ever will 32 King of the mountain Brock reflects on his return to Bathurst
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72 Cool hand Luke Youlden takes Konica honours in Bathurst V8 curtain raiser 74 The new breed Two first-time winners share Ford bragging rights 76 Marcus my word Gronholm slaughters all before him in New Zealand to take WRC crown number two
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Photos: Cover: Dirk Klynsmith. Contents: Dirk Klynsmith, : Marshall Cass. .'i \ Photo4/BOTHWELL
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78 Rallying
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