FG Falcon (COTF)

The Ford FG Falcon (Car of the Future) is the FG body's second life — the 2013–2014 car that carried Ford into the Gen I / Car of the Future era, distinct from the earlier Blueprint FG of 2009–2012.

A new car under the same skin

For 2013 the category replaced the individually-built Project Blueprint cars with the Car of the Future — the first true control chassis in the championship. Where Blueprint had standardised only the front geometry, key dimensions, control ECU and tyre while teams built their own chassis, COTF supplied a common safety cell with tendered control components (V8SA-spec rear differential, pedal box, collapsible steering column, electronics, air-jacks and fire system) and a rear-mounted transaxle (Albins, later XTrac sequential) in place of the front Holinger H-pattern. The shell was still the FG, but the car beneath it was largely new.

Engine & driveline

The Ford kept its established 5.0-litre racing V8 — the naturally aspirated 90-degree unit with an SVO iron block and aluminium heads, carried over from the Blueprint cars rather than a production-derived engine like those of the new Gen I marques. It ran on the E85 control fuel through the rear transaxle and control differential, on the single-make Dunlop control tyre.

Body, aero & the facelift

The race car wore the four-door FG silhouette; its aero was a controlled Car-of-the-Future package set by the technical rules rather than free development, and no per-car figures are published here. Ford Performance Racing and DJR were among the teams that campaigned it. The FG ran under Car of the Future for 2013–2014 before the FG X facelift took over the same control chassis and driveline for 2015.

Sources: verified spec catalog (COTF / Gen I control formula — Grade C; Ford race-V8 base — Grade B/D; FG-COTF aero — Grade D) + the FG (COTF) and Blueprint FG model articles.