Ford Territory

Ford Territory (since 2004)

The Ford Territory is a crossover SUV which was released by Ford in Australia on the EA169 platform of the BA Falcon in April 2004. His code no. is E265. He was elected to the Wheels Car of the Year 2004, with the car testers praised its car -like handling and its practicality. Ford had invested 500 million AU $ demonstrably over four years in its development. It is manufactured on the same assembly line as the Falcon. Many people expected that the Territory would replace the Falcon wagon, but both cars to be manufactured because the Territory is more desired by private buyers, while the Falcon Combined is ordered more for vehicle fleets.

There is a base model with rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive variant as a simple TX model or as better equipped TS or Ghia models. A DVD player is available on request in all models. The Territory has. During the TS and Ghia models as standard and the TX- model on request as a first car from Australian production side airbags

There are models with five seats ( in two rows ) or with seven seats ( in three rows ). The seats are arranged so that the rear is the highest. They are collapsible and then disappear completely into the vehicle floor.

The first model was called SX and was manufactured from 2004 to 2005. Its engine was the 4.0 -liter R6 DOHC Ford Barra engine of the Falcon, which develops 182 kW (245 bhp ).

Wheel-drive models have to request a HDC system, which slows the downhill with the help of the ABS. The system is taken from Land Rover.

The vehicles for Australia and New Zealand are slightly different: the New Zealand models have body-color bumpers and aluminum rims, also the basic model. The headlight arrangement reminiscent of jewels in a black box. In New Zealand there is only the basic version with rear-wheel drive, the other versions have four-wheel drive, while in Australia, all versions are available with rear - or all-wheel drive.

The appearance of the Territory is similar to that of the Ford Taurus X in the USA. Both vehicles have distinct similarities in the styling - a fact which is responsible for the sales success of the Territory, in the opinion of the Group's headquarters in Dearborn. Simon Butterworth, the architect of the revision of the Falcon 2003, also designed the Territory, but also cooperated with J Mays in the U.S., so a global Ford " DNS " was born. Marcus Hotblack created the interior of the Territory, where he the quality of the Swiss army knife took as an example. Thus, the car details on how flexible cup holders and handbag holder for female drivers since it was discovered that many buyers of SUVs are women.

Since 2005, the Territory is offered in South Africa, since 2006, in Thailand, in Thailand, only the four-wheel model is sold in Ghia equipment.

A revised SY model came in October 2005 and was equipped with a 6-stage automatic transmission from ZF Friedrichshafen with all -wheel models and an increased engine output of 190 kW equipped (255 bhp ). This model has a rear view camera (standard in the Ghia and put in the TS). Also, this camera was offered for the first time in an Australian vehicle.

Mid- 2006, Ford Australia a turbo version of the engine. The turbo made ​​for 245 kW ( 329 bhp ) and a torque of 480 Nm.

The fastest Ford Territory Turbo was developed by CV Performance; he made the quarter mile in 11.2 seconds and reaching a top speed of 196 thereby km / h

FPV F6X

From January 2008 to June 2009, the Territory of FPV was also available as F6X. He has the turbo engine the FPV F6 with 270 kW and accelerates in 5.9 s 0-100 km / h The F6X is the FPV version of the Ford Territory Turbo Ghia; his full name is F6 X 270

New model from 2011

Racing and competition successes

• Winner of the New Zealand Automobile Association 'AA Motoring Excellence Supreme Award ( Ford SY Territory ) 2006
• Winner of the New Zealand Automobile Association 'AA Motoring Excellence Award ( Ford Territory TX AWD ) 2005
• Winner of the SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS - AUSTRALASIA ' Automotive Engineering Excellence Awards 2005
• Winner of Australia 's Best Cars ( Territory GHIA AWD - Best Leisure - wheel car ) 2005
• Winner of Wheels Automotive Design Award (WADA ) - Best Interior 2005
• Winner of Australia 's Best Recreational Four Wheel Drive ( AWD TX Territory ) 2004
• Winner of Wheels Car of the Year 2004
• Winner of the Australian Design Award 2004
• Winner of Australia 's Best Cars ( Territory TX AWD - Best Leisure - wheel car ) 2004
• Winner at News Limited 'Star Car' Award.
• Winner at Courier Mail (Queensland ) COTY Best family car ( RWD Territory )
• Winner Best in Courier Mail (Queensland ) COTY recreational vehicles ( Territory AWD )