The best Falcon ads

Franco Cozzo · 07-03-2016, 10:08 PM

Hello guys,

Thought I'd make a thread for the best Falcon ads you think that were made, these were my favorite ads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kd2mMa0KqE

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KA6O1KUg9M

(they forgot the 'ugliest ever', but anyway

)

What are yours?

wozman · 07-03-2016, 10:12 PM

I liked the eco boost with the cane toads one

FTE · 07-03-2016, 10:28 PM

BA XR8 ute ad
http://youtu.be/NG97IFn-sao

And
http://youtu.be/Pqr2-GZwv0o

Plus this one wasn't bad

http://youtu.be/PeKFXvzPdeA

FTE · 07-03-2016, 10:42 PM

The XF Fairmont Ghia

http://youtu.be/K9v7_LTvEAI
I wonder if they meant to have the indicator on ....

T3rminator · 07-03-2016, 10:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FTE

BA XR8 ute ad
http://youtu.be/NG97IFn-sao

This BS ad made me put about 10 different exhaust combinations on my BA XR8 ute thinking I could make it sound like that............. FALSE advertising!

**Silver Ghia** · 07-03-2016, 10:49 PM

This is probably the most famous Falcon ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_rCwDi5YZY

Sprint XR8 · 07-03-2016, 11:02 PM

The EA Falcon launch ad, appropriately rising out of a lake like a boat anchor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt8jU2nQTDw

Craig@AUDI · 07-03-2016, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wozman

I liked the eco boost with the cane toads one

Ralphie???

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8q77CIQodVw

MethodX · 07-03-2016, 11:13 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l3KtRZzA9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRI7zcYs-Y

EBSXR6 · 07-03-2016, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silver Ghia

This is probably the most famous Falcon ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_rCwDi5YZY

Was that Fords response to the Holden RTS ads?

EBSXR6 · 07-03-2016, 11:22 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt8jU2nQTDw[/QUOTE]

I believe the basics for that ad were shot in a studio in Port Melbourne then the computers took over.

**Silver Ghia** · 07-03-2016, 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EBSXR6

Was that Fords response to the Holden RTS ads?

It was around the same time. 1978.

Madaya · 07-03-2016, 11:44 PM

I loved this ad. Made me a Ford man front and centre...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l3KtRZzA9w
Was there an extended version of the ad? I remembered seeing
it on the Ford New Faces with Burt Newton.

**Polyal** · 08-03-2016, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3rminator

This BS ad made me put about 10 different exhaust combinations on my BA XR8 ute thinking I could make it sound like that............. FALSE advertising!

But it worked if you bought the car

buggo · 08-03-2016, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FTE

BA XR8 ute ad
http://youtu.be/NG97IFn-sao

Is that bonnet hump different from the production ones? It looks a lot more chiseled than mine is, especially the front. This one has a definite crease instead of being smooth and flowing

Falcon SXR8 · 08-03-2016, 10:41 AM

Must be stuck in third

https://youtu.be/AUbgfWTptoU

T3rminator · 08-03-2016, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Polyal

But it worked if you bought the car

I bought it as the company I worked for at the time had a really good deal going.
It was the countless hours I spent at the exhaust shop that ticked me off. The exhaust shop was really good as they donated some of their time to also replicate the sound. This was 10+ years ago and the owner still remembers me as "that guy with the XR8 ute" lol!

I even went to the extent of asking fraud what exhaust they had on it and was told it was stock :p

looking back at it now I still feel like a tool.

Sent from my SM-N9005

**Giant Cranium** · 08-03-2016, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buggo

Is that bonnet hump different from the production ones? It looks a lot more chiseled than mine is, especially the front. This one has a definite crease instead of being smooth and flowing

its the same as the motor show gt bonnet, they changed it to the one we now know, i remember they called it the concept bonnet

malazn mafia · 08-03-2016, 11:36 AM

BA Falcon 'can't get enough of this' . Still get chills watching it, the ad is that good, even more than a decade later. Always dreamed of being the blonde guy cruising along at breakneck speed , one hand held outside the driver's window. Surely this ad would be illegal in this day and age as it seems to depict spirited driving (aka reckless , dangerous, hoon driving in Australian legalese) on a public road. Bring back the good old days. Anything Ford or anything in this country or world for that matter post-2006 has just gone downhill.

Yellow_Festiva · 08-03-2016, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FTE

Plus this one wasn't bad

http://youtu.be/PeKFXvzPdeA

My favourite one.

Iggle Piggle · 08-03-2016, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Falcon SXR8

Must be stuck in third

https://youtu.be/AUbgfWTptoU

That is my favourite out of that series of ads, which was an awesome series.

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3rminator

I bought it as the company I worked for at the time had a really good deal going.
It was the countless hours I spent at the exhaust shop that ticked me off. The exhaust shop was really good as they donated some of their time to also replicate the sound. This was 10+ years ago and the owner still remembers me as "that guy with the XR8 ute" lol!

I even went to the extent of asking fraud what exhaust they had on it and was told it was stock :p

looking back at it now I still feel like a tool.

Sent from my SM-N9005

Reckon a lot of Holden guys chased without success the same sound from their LS1 as HSV's V8 Symphony ad.

**Silver Ghia** · 08-03-2016, 11:59 AM

I couldn't find the BA walking fingers ad in google.

Maybe Ford were so ashamed they deleted it.

malazn mafia · 08-03-2016, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silver Ghia

I couldn't find the BA walking fingers ad in google.

Maybe Ford were so ashamed they deleted it.

That horrible ad was FG, not BA. They probably got sued by Yellow Pages for infringing on one of their key logos. Ford Aus lost the plot when Geoff Polites left, and never regained it. The last straw was the pathetic 'Go Further' campaign, starring a suicidal, distressed man raising his hands in some despair/surrender pose at the edge of the cliff, maybe it was Ford Aus describing their real feeling about having no direction..

FTE · 08-03-2016, 12:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3rminator

This BS ad made me put about 10 different exhaust combinations on my BA XR8 ute thinking I could make it sound like that............. FALSE advertising!

Well they may have false advertised with the V8 sound but at least it pulled heaps of girls when driving through town.......

http://youtu.be/Pqr2-GZwv0o

**Silver Ghia** · 08-03-2016, 01:00 PM

Edit: Sorry, it was off topic, just realised the topic was the best Falcon ads...

Ford17 · 08-03-2016, 01:10 PM

Anyone recall a TV ad for the AU ute (must have been a one tonner), where a bloke in a country town wished for it and it appeared.

He then wished for V8 option and got that too, after which his mate said "you couldn't wish for anything more", and then a pallet of VB fell out of the sky and onto the ute tray.

Can't seem to see it on youtube though?

Ford17 · 08-03-2016, 01:14 PM

AU XR8 racing Ross McGlashen' s rocket car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUbgfWTptoU

**PridenJoy** · 08-03-2016, 03:09 PM

The AU XR8 racing the rocket ad is by far the best Falcon ad ever (also going by the amount of likes here) followed by the BA can't get enough of this.

FPV0002 · 08-03-2016, 03:17 PM

Forgot how good some of these ads were, i like the XR8 ute ones and the 'cant get enough of this' one also. The good times where Ford were proud to showcase their performance models, where you could show spirited driving, or someone actually enjoying driving. Two blokes in a big grunty V8, it was what many of us aspired to. They really lost the plot and i doubt I have seen an even vaguely interesting or creative ad in the last 10 years since those ones for the BA-BF were realeased.

swanee · 08-03-2016, 03:59 PM

My favourite was and is the BA MK2 XR8 Unbelievable pulling power ad.

The link FTE posted earlier was the video I uploaded when I had that ute in the ad