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Originally Posted by roddy1960
A bit late now I guess but if someone else had bought the rights to re manufacture the Barra for commercial or sport( eg drag racing) use I wonder would it have been worth it ?
I often wonder how much further technological development could have been done on it to keep it relevant as an alternative to a really big V8 for a decade or two yet. I guess now we'll never know and I doubt Ford would have never given up the rights to the engine anyway.
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There were direct injection prototypes built, that would have passed euro 5. There was even an xr6 Turbo LPi ute running around that went like stink apparently.
It could have been made emissions compliant, but the decision was made to cancel Falcon so it never went ahead.