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Originally Posted by SteveJH
Wagon was still selling a few hundred a month even with an interior dating back to 2002, metalwork dating to 1998 and 2002 and a lack of premium options to make it attractive to private buyers.
Update the metal work to FG/FH and make it available with G6 & G6E level interiors and it would probably sell, maybe not in the numbers of the Commodore Sportswagon, but it would sell.
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There were 3 types of Falcon:
Sedan, ute and wagon.
Sedan was the basis of everything from XT through to Force 8
Ute was the basis of everything from XL through to Super Pursuit.
Wagon was the basis of XT wagon & Futura wagon.
Two of those sold thousands a month the other sold a couple of hundred.
Each variant required a lot of very expensive engineering.
There is always the argument that if there were XR wagons or Fairmont wagons or V8 wagons they would increase numbers.
Well there used to be up to the AU and guess what, they sold BUGGER ALL of them. Which is why they were dropped.
Same reason the panel van, a huge seller in the late 70s is now history.
A couple of years ago a custom "F6" wagon was built in Melbourne. It sat round for ages as although there were lots of oohs and aahs the noise was not coming from people who buy NEW cars.
Here on AFF there is not a lot of custom BA/BF wagons being built with different body kits/interiors or transmission/engine substitution even though there is in the sedan and ute arena.
So really all I can see is that some people want Ford to have a wagon because Holden have a wagon. They don't actually want to buy a NEW one, they just want others to so there will be some cheap second hand ones in a few years.