The AU Falcon Introduction:

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Cruise Control:
With the introduction of steering wheel mounted audio controls, the On/off switch for the Cruise Control needed to be relocated from the LHS of steering wheel to the RHS of the steering column via a new twist switch mounted on the end of the blinker stalk. Turning the cruise control On now involved a simple twist of a knob forward and twist again in the opposite direction to turn it off (in addition to the brake cancel / resume button functions). With Ford's typically easy to use cruise control operation allowing three 'off' points instead of the Commodore's two, the Falcon was a much easier car to drive with confidence especially while using the cruise control. Importantly with the Ford system, there was no need to step on the brakes to cancel the cruise.

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