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Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

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Ford is being sketchy about its plans. The Territory has no launch date, though is expected before mid year as Ford enters one of its busiest years on record.

The Territory takes on the face of the Falcon with a large under-bumper intake and bears the lines of Ford's kinetic body styling in its flanks.
Ford Australia's new president and CEO, Bob Graziano, says the Territory was a benchmark when first launched and "it is set to achieve this again - and more".

"It wears an exciting new look and will boast an extensive list of technical highlights.  "The Ford Australia team is taking the Territory to an all-new level of performance, refinement and quality, and customers will definitely experience these advancements when they drive it."

Ford added that the SUV's new look will include "a major interior update and boast a number of technology highlights, including the introduction of turbo-diesel power, details of which will be communicated in 2011".

"For Ford Australia, the next 18-month period is set to be one of the company's busiest in its 85-year history," it says.  "Approximately 85 percent of the entire Ford Australia new-model catalogue will either be replaced or updated during this time."

This includes the updated MC Mondeo range and new WT Fiesta hatch and sedan - both recently launched - and next year, the Territory, Focus, Falcon (with 2-litre four-cylinder engine and optional liquid-inject LPG) and the new Ranger ute.

Photo of Neil Dowling
Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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