Falcon XR6 Sprint -v- Falcon XR8 Sprint -v- Commodore SS V Redline | Sports Sedan Showdown
WHEN FORD ANNOUNCED AN END TO AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING, MANY BELIEVED THE 5.0-LITRE SUPERCHARGED V8 FALCON XR8 WOULD BE ITS LAST HURRAH.
However even the older VF Commodore SS V Redline had its measure. There was no dressing up this stoush – the 6.0-litre V8-powered Holden mauled the faster, but crude, Ford. For all the on-road hammer and theatre in that supercharged Ford V8, the Holden was simply the better drive.
That wasn’t the end of hostilities, though. Rumours circulated that the VF Series II Commodore SS V Redline would score the larger 6.2-litre V8, previously the preserve of HSV. And the rumours proved correct.
Then, again, ears pricked and eyes widened as the rumour mill once more began to turn, this time spinning to the tune of a final-edition Falcon XR Sprint series, which would revive a nameplate introduced on the 1993 ED.