FORD PERFORMANCE VEHICLES HAS TODAY launched an all-new GS Sedan and GS Ute, reinventing a badge that goes back 30 years to the XW GS of 1969.

Like that earlier GS, the new limited-edition model is to provide a lower entry-point into FPV’s performance stable.

At $54,950 (plus on-roads) for the Sedan, and $49,950 (plus) for the [...]

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IN A FRANK EXCHANGE yesterday, FPV Boss Rod Barrett said that the possibility of FPV producing a GTHO was “so far from reality, it’s off the table”.

However, he also conceded that the “GTHO is a dream of mine”.
“You’ve got to be a brave man to go back to GTHO,” Mr Barrett said. “We’re not prepared [...]

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FORD PERFORMANCE VEHICLES has officially unveiled the latest addition to its performance car line-up, the F6 E, which promises the full-blooded performance of the F6 coupled with a healthy amount of luxury.

First seen at the Melbourne Motor Show earlier this year as a concept, a large amount of interest in the more low-key F6 variant [...]

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TWO IMAGES inadvertently posted onto a Western Australian Ford dealership’s website have raised speculation of a de-tuned, cut-price sibling for the V8-powered FPV GT.

The images show very little, but what can be discerned are a set of  stylised GS decals and a 302 badge on the tips of the rear wing. A four-piston Brembo caliper [...]

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IN A COUNTRY OBSESSED with V8 performance cars, you might think that a car like the F6, with its blown six, would have a hard time establishing its credentials.

Sure, FPV still sells a lot more V8s than they do sixes and HSV doesn’t even bother to go there. But being a volume seller in the [...]

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Apparently Mark Webber has been missing the days of driving for the now defunct Jaguar F1 team with its Ford-sourced engines.

Thanks to the fact that Jaguar was owned by Ford at the time, Mark spent part of his time in Australia punting around in Ford Australia’s best performance offerings.

This week, before heading to Kuala Lumpur [...]

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Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) revealed its all-new concept - the F6 E. The very production-ready concept sits alongside the GT E, and has HSV’s E-Series Senator squarely in its sights. The F6 E Concept takes the brutal performance of the F6 range and adds a creamy dollop of luxury and style.

Check out the images following… the [...]

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Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) has today announced an all-new concept - the F6 E. Lining up alongside the GT E, and with HSV’s E-Series Senator squarely in its sights, the F6 E Concept looks to combine brutal performance with a bucket load of luxury and style. It also appears to be production ready…

As the F6 [...]

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You’re meant to give wood, not get wood, on your 5th Anniversary. Oops…

To celebrate its 5th year in the hi-po Ford building business, FPV has turned the temperature up a notch on a limited run of GTs.

And we rather like the result.

In fact, shortly after picking up our test car, a roadside vote was [...]

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FPV fans take note! FPV will once again be opening the door to its Campbellfield headquarters on Sunday the 1st March, for its 2009 open day.

On display will be a huge range of past and present FPV models, along with an assortment of other Ford performance models. FPV will also be granting unprecedented access to [...]

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FPV’s FG Falcon based F6 has pulled off a double win in the recent New Zealand Autocar Car of the Year Awards. The F6 took out the Performance Car of the Year award as well as the Car of the Year Award and did so by a record margin, beating the nearest contender by 20 points.

FPV’s General Manager [...]

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FPV’s recently unveiled limited edition 5th Anniversary GT turned quite a few heads at Sydney Motor Show this year. Specifics on the GT were not readily available on the release, but we’ve got them here today for your perusal.

A mere 200 examples will be produced which should see the GT join the ranks of other FPV [...]

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Any more acronyms in that post title, and I reckon there’s a record in it.

Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) has taken a step into the future, relying solely on the virtues of computer animation to promote its new FG Falcon-based performance range on television.  Could it also be a clever attempt at skirting the rules when [...]

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With official power figures for the FG based FPV range released yesterday, it is accurate to suggest that FPV has come off the bench, gloves off and ready for an Australian performance sedan showdown.

If you thought HSV’s move to LS3 6.2-litre V8 power had “sealed the deal” for HSV, then you’d be wrong. FPV have [...]

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UPDATE - GALLERY OF OFFICIAL IMAGES ADDED

We’ll get the FPV range up first and then look at the rest of the Ford range later today - its the FPV product that has proved to be the most elusive to-date. Unfortunately, FPV didn’t come to Melbourne with one of their Gunmetal Grey GT’s or F6’s. It [...]

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Pictures of FPV’s new FG are a little thin on the ground at the moment, so we have to give credit where credit is due here. The guys over at Australian Ford Forums have their fingers on the pulse and had a ‘mole in the hole’ at today’s preview. Thanks to ‘russellw’ we can give [...]

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We’ve shown you the FPV GT-Cobra before but seeing it in the flesh makes you appreciate just how good the Ford/FPV product is, even if the current model Falcon is due for replacement in 2008. Packing a 302kw BOSS 5.4-litre V8 the GT-Cobra looked sensational. Follow the link to see the gallery.
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FPV had no intention of letting HSV get all of the attention and fielded two notable new models. The GT Cobra was tucked away in the background a little (we’ll show you that soon) and sitting in front of it was the new FPV F6X. We’ll bring you full details of FPV’s new Territory based [...]

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The Aussie Ford fan has certainly had a weekend worth remembering. Not only did Ford fill all three spots on the podium at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 but FPV used the “great race” as the launch platform for its new limited run GT Cobra.

With the new Orion Falcon not due to grace Ford dealer [...]

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Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) have announced the release of their new limited-edition F6 R-Spec Typhoon. The F6 R-Spec is one of two expected limited-edition releases in the lead-up to the new ‘Orion’ Falcon in early 2008, the other being the rumoured ‘Cobra’.

The F6 R-Spec features FPV’s R-Spec suspension package as first introduced on the GT [...]

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While the HSV marketing machine seems to be in a state of permanent overdrive there has been little to be heard from FPV in recent months. The big news of 2007 was the Prodrive broom sweeping aside six senior executives including the General Manager at the time, Sak Ryopponen…an unfortunate first name given that Sak [...]

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There was a time when Black and Gold was synomynous with the bland tasting econo brand generic food in the black and gold packaging on Australian supermarket shelves. Reaching for it at the supermarket was like a final weak admission that you weren’t quite where you had hoped to be at this point in your [...]

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