Ford Landau (Australia)

Ford Landau (1975 )

The Ford Landau was an automobile, the Ford Australia from 1973 to 1976 built.

The car was introduced in August 1973 and was based on the XB Falcon, but had the front and the luxury amenities of a Pullman limousine P5 LTD, another Australian design that was presented simultaneously with the Landau. The Landau gave it only as a 2- door hardtop coupe; he had the same wheelbase of 2819 mm as the Falcon. The car was powered by an Australian, slightly compressed version of the Ford Cleveland V8 engine with 5752 cc displacement, the (214 kW) at 5000 min-1 yielded an output of 290 bhp. The three-stage automatic transmission was a T- Bar SelectShift Cruisomatic that could be changed by hand. There were four disc brakes, bringing the Landau and its sister model, the LTD were the first Australian cars with this equipment detail.

Because of its complete standard equipment, there were only two options available for the Landau: a cassette radio and a full leather interior. Thus, and because of its defined benefit mechanics of Landau never had a real competitor on the Australian market. There were plans to P5 Landau to be provided with the front of the new P6 LTD, which also led to the design study of a P6 Landau; but this never went into series production. When the Landau was discontinued with the introduction of the new 1976 LTD 1385 copies were created.