The end of an Era: The last engines to come out of Ford’s Geelong factory

September 26th 2016 marks the day that the last Australian built Barra inline 6 and 5.0L Coyote engine were produced, with the last of each seen photographed next to each other.

A sad day in the Geelong Ford factory as it has been producing engines since 1925 and also up to 1959 produced vehicles out of that factory too. There is no known figure as to how many engines have been produced there. But Ford can confirm that near 4.5 million engines have rolled out of the factory since 1960 when the falcon was first produced.

An end of an era, and an end to some great engines. Ford Australias assembly plant closure is a sad day for the Ford community, it is confirmed that production will finish on October 7th 2016 at its plants.