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Over 20 years ago Ford Australia dropped an all-new turbocharged model on Aussies with the XR6T. Powered by the formidable DOHC 4-litre "Barra" engine it quickly became one of the hottest cars on Down Under roads as it made the big four-door Falcon capable of keeping up with Japanese turbo imports.  The same as arch rivals Holden had the Holden Special Vehicles arm to sell hotted up Holdens, Ford Australia's Ford Performance Vehicles division had been turning out tweaked up V8 Falcons (mostly wearing gauche body kits) and they soon realised just how good an FPV-tuned XR6T could be... and...

Over 20 years ago Ford Australia dropped an all-new turbocharged model on Aussies with the XR6T. Powered by the formidable DOHC 4-litre "Barra" engine it quickly became one of the hottest cars on Down Under roads as it made the big four-door Falcon capable of keeping up with Japanese turbo imports.  The same as arch rivals Holden had the Holden Special Vehicles arm to sell hotted up Holdens, Ford Australia's Ford Performance Vehicles division had been turning out tweaked up V8 Falcons (mostly wearing gauche body kits) and they soon realised just how good an FPV-tuned XR6T could be... and...

We all know a heap of odd cars and love what we love (mine is 80s BMWs, thanks). But I was inspired to run you guys through some properly odd performance cars that different parts of the world (or generations of readers) may have never heard of before.  I've plucked these cars out of my wormhole of a brain at random, so hit me back with weird performance cars you think people may not have heard of. If this story whets your appetite, you can also read about some others HERE when I ran through some of South Africa's wildest...

Maybe you've seen the latest episode of MCM where MOOG has gone all STREWTH'N'FLAMIN'GALAHS on us and bought a purple V8 Ford Falcon XR8. Sometimes he likes to go WILDLY off-reservation and do things like this, so consider this week's blog post as something of an open letter to our Nissan-loving musical tootler and drift fanatic (as well as a history lesson on V8 Falcons). The BA XR8 Falcon was introduced in 2003 as part of a radical redesign of the Falcon range. Ford Australia had been on the back foot behind Holden ever since the blue oval dropped the V8...

Hot Take Time: Mazda's FD3S RX-7 is Japan's best sports car. Forget the MX-5. Forget the NSX. Forget GT-Rs, Supras, WRXs and Evos (none of them are sports cars, for one). Ultimately the top 3 sports cars Japan has poduced are widely recognised as being the Mazda MX-5, the Honda NSX, and Mazda's third-generation RX-7. For the sake of this article I'll define a "sports car" as a light weight, two-seat (or 2+2, which is just a glorified two-seater), rear-drive car that places driving dynamics above creature comforts. Never mind if they've got pistons or rotors, turbos or natural aspiration,...