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when it announced plans to stop building cars locally. It made its last saloon, a blue Falcon XR6, in3.5 million unitsToyota and General Motors shuttered their Australian manufacturing operations shortly after. While the move cost thousands of jobs, Ford argued it was inevitable because demand for locally-built rear-wheel-drive saloons was free-falling. In 2003, it sold nearly20,000-unitEven without the Falcon, Ford remains near the top of the Australian sales chart.
Ford production engineer Federico Ertl posted a picture on LinkedIn , with a message in Spanish, translated as: “Yesterday we said farewell to the Ford Mondeo. The truth is that it is very sad to think that these have been the last two vehicles produced and that I will no longer see them at the plant. And if I feel sorry for myself, I can't even imagine what it’s like for those who saw it born!”Mondeos were sold in Europe in total since launch.
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