Australia 1983-1986: Ford Falcon reigns
1986 Ford Falcon
1982 Holden Commodore
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While the Holden Commodore managed to grab the Australian pole position as early as for its first full year of sales in 1979, riding on the 1979 energy crisis, with the effects of the crisis fading away, the larger Ford Falcon takes the commands of the market in 1982 with 61,549 sales vs, 35,571 for the Commodore. The Falcon will hold this position for 6 consecutive years until the arrival of a bigger Commodore in 1988.
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The first generation Commodore, named VB, was produced between November 1978 and March 1980, adding up to 95,906 units.
The Falcon XF, produced between 1982 and 1984, totaled 193,890 units, and the XF, which remains to this date Ford’s best-selling Falcon model, reached 278,101 units produced between 1984 and 1988.
Source: Wikipedia, Wheels Magazine
