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Caught during a freeway run from FPV's Melbourne base, the pictures show a car with hugely improved front-end cooling and a giant bonnet bulge to clear the supercharger fitted to the Coyote powerplant.
A wicked new Coyote is about to run wild on Australian roads.
It's the driving force in the latest range of FPV Falcons and the pack leader comes with the promise of more than 330 supercharged kiloWatts. Coyote is the American codename for the all-new V8 engine to be used in the next generation of Ford Performance Vehicles cars and the scale of the change is as obvious as the front-end alterations on this test car.
Caught during a freeway run from FPV's Melbourne base, the pictures show a car with hugely improved front-end cooling and a giant bonnet bulge to clear the supercharger fitted to the Coyote powerplant. A new nose will definitely be necessary for the upcoming FPV GT, although the supercharger installation could be done without a major bonnet change.
The arrival of the Coyote is likely to signal a major change in the links between Ford Australia and FPV, with the Broadmeadows brand expected to dump V8s from its regular Falcon family - and to kill its XR8 model - as it switches to a combination of the new turbocharged four and its historic inline six for its family favourites.
FPV will go alone with V8 power, installing two variations of the Coyote V8 to create a model mix similar to the GT and GT-P combination it has used in the past. No-one at Ford or FPV will discuss the companies' engine plans, or the timing for model upgrades, but the blue team is definitely about to take the high ground on home-grown performance.
The supercharged 5-litre Coyote, thanks to an all-new lightweight alloy design with twin-overhead camshafts, should have more than 330kW of power - and perhaps as much as 350 for the GT-P. Coyote power will mark the first time FPV has won the local horsepower war, trumping the current 325kW benchmark set by the HSV GTS Commodore.
