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The Ford AU 2000 Falcon XR8 '00 (Tickford Falcon XR8 in earlier games) is an Australian race car produced by Tickford/Ford Australia. This Australian race car first appeared in Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec and has been featured in all subsequent mainline games up to Gran Turismo 6.

The car appears to be the #5, driven by Glenn Seton, who achieved 5th place in the 2000 V8 Supercars Driver's Championship. In the 2000 Bathurst 1000, the car was driven by Seton and Neil Crompton to a 13th place finish.

Description[]

"A car with a fantastic history in Australia's popular V8 Supercar Championships."

At the beginning of the 21st century, the V8 Supercars Championship was the most popular form of motorsports in Australia, more so than Formula 1. The races were contested between two makes, the Holden Commodore (General Motors) and the Ford Falcon.

In the second half of the 1990s, the Holden Racing Team dominated the series, but in 2000, the tide began to turn. The reason was because Ford of Australia built a machine specifically intended to usurp the Commodore. The car was called the Falcon XR8. It was powered by a 5-liter V8 that pumped out 599 HP. It came mated to a Holinger 6-speed manual gearbox made in Australia, coupled to a 9-in. differential.

The V8 Supercars Championship's main attraction was that the cars were very evenly matched, as a result of strict regulations, which made every race intensely competitive. The cars had to be equipped with identical MoTeC ECUs, as well as imposing limits on the compression ratio and mandating 7,500 rpm rev limiters. Ford's results in 2000 were much better than in the previous year, but the Falcon XR8 managed only one pole and one win, with three 3rd-place finishes. In Australia's most popular race, the Bathurst 1000, the Falcon was able to nab pole position with former 500 cc motorcycle champ Wayne Gardner behind the wheel, but the race was won by a Holden.

Acquisition[]

Game Buy From Location Credits Win From Event
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec Tickford Dealership 1,500,000 Super Speedway 150 Miles
Gran Turismo 4 Ford Australia Dealership 450,000 ---
Gran Turismo PSP Ford Australia Dealership 1,250,000 ---
Gran Turismo 5 Used Cars Dealership 1,200,000 ---
Gran Turismo 6 Ford Australia Dealership 1,150,000 ---

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  • From GT4, the Ford Tickford Racing logo and driver names were removed from the car. The Ford Tickford Racing logo made a brief return in GTPSP (but without the driver names), but were removed again in GT5.
  • In GT4, if the player tries to tune the car outside the Ford Australia manufacturer, the game prompts to tune it at the American Ford dealer.
  • In GT4, a Tickford manufacturer is hidden in game files. Attempting to load it, only Tune Shop is accessible. The car can't be tuned there, and use "regular" Ford logos as tune shop logos instead of Ford Racing ones. The background images are also the same as Ford Australia.
  • In GTPSP, there is an unused car set containing only this car, being a possible leftover from GT4, being called "au_ford000.xml". The car appear in the second Ford car set ("ford001.xml").
    • If forced to be loaded in the "au_ford000.xml" car set, the car appear under the American Ford dealer.

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