Here we have put together a post contrasting housing prices and comparing them to the cost of a new Ford Falcon the year it was released. The housing prices we have used are the median housing prices in Sydney, the Ford Falcon prices used are base model manual sedan where possible. What we have done after that is take the house cost and divided it by the new car price to give us a ratio which shows the affordability of a new Ford Falcon compared to the Sydney median house price. For example, a ratio of 5:1 tells us that the Sydney median house price is 5 times the price of a new falcon or, for the cost of 5 new Falcons, you could buy at the median house price in Sydney. The reason Sydney has been chosen is because it was the only set of reliable statistics we could find going back to 1960.
1960
XK Falcon: £1 137 ($2 274)
Sydney Median House price: $9 500
Ratio: 4.2:1
1962
XL Falcon: £1 070 ($2 140)
Sydney Median House price: $9 240
Ratio: 4.3:1
1964
XM Falcon: £1 051 ($2 102)
Sydney Median House price: $12 030
Ratio: 5.7:1
1965
XP Falcon: £1 075 ($2 150)
Sydney Median House price: $12 700
Ratio: 5.9:1
1966
XR Falcon: $2 226
Sydney Median House price: $13 310
Ratio: 6.0:1
1968
XT Falcon: $2 330
Sydney Median House price: $15 120
Ratio: 6.5:1
1969
XW Falcon: $2 320
Sydney Median House price: $16 380
Ratio: 7.1:1
1970
XY Falcon: $2 435
Sydney Median House price: $17 750
Ratio: 7.3:1
1972
XA Falcon: $2 750
Sydney Median House price: $23 460
Ratio: 8.5:1
1973
XB Falcon: $3 236
Sydney Median House price: $27 130
Ratio: 8.4:1
1976
XC Falcon: $5 456
Sydney Median House price: $36 430
Ratio: 6.7:1
1979
XD Falcon: $6 600
Sydney Median House price: $50 190
Ratio: 7.6:1
1982
XE Falcon: $9 758
Sydney Median House price: $78 630
Ratio: 8.1:1
1984
XF Falcon: $12 007
Sydney Median House price: $87 470
Ratio: 7.3:1
1988
EA Falcon: $19 431
Sydney Median House price: $136 390
Ratio: 7.0:1
1991
EB Falcon: $24 042
Sydney Median House price: $189 090
Ratio: 7.9:1
1993
ED Falcon: $25 255
Sydney Median House price: $197 250
Ratio: 7.8:1
1994
EF Falcon: $27 035
Sydney Median House price: $206 720
Ratio: 7.6:1
1996
EL Falcon: $29 594
Sydney Median House price: $220 000
Ratio: 7.4:1
1998
AU Falcon: $29 990
Sydney Median House price: $272 000
Ratio: 9.1:1
2002
BA Falcon: $33 640
Sydney Median House price: $452 000
Ratio: 13.4:1
2005
BF Falcon: $34 880
Sydney Median House price: $528 000
Ratio: 15.1:1
2008
FG Falcon: $45 790
Sydney Median House price: $546 000
Ratio: 11.9:1
2014
FG-X Falcon: $35 900
Sydney Median House price: $811 000
Ratio: 22.6:1