GM tried it with the nuevo-GTO and then the offed-too-early G8 GXP. Ford has, rightly or wrongly—feel free to debate—never brought its Australian-market Falcon to these shores. But now, courtesy of the Lone Star State (where road signs remind one to “Drive Friendly, the Texas Way”), unadulterated Australian muscle is finally coming to American shores. On a trade mission to Austin, Texas, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh announced that Australia’s V8 Supercar Championship is coming Stateside in 2013 for a round at the new Circuit of the Americas.
Built to bring Mr. Ecclestone’s high-dollar F1 Eurocircus back to the U.S. next year, the new 3.4-mile road course outside Texas’s capital city also has confirmed a round of Moto GP for 2013. The five-year contract with the what-NASCAR-should-be antipodean series gives the new course three major events to anchor the track’s second season. It’s not the first time the Falcons and Commodores have escaped their home Down Under; they’ve also run in Shanghai and Bahrain, while this season’s calendar includes Abu Dhabi. We’re hyped and amped over the development. Now if Ford and GM could just get on with it and bring the Ute variants of the Commodore and Falcon to our shores; we’ll take ours with a side of pretty girls with Australian accents.
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