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Over time, the name referred to a number of different cars in different classes; the Fairlane was a full-size car during the 1950s but became a mid-size car in the 1960s. The mid-sized model spawned the Australian-built Fairlane in 1967, although it was considered a large car there. The Ford Fairlane is a large, luxury automobile model manufactured by Ford Australia from 1960 to December 2007, with only a brief absence in the mid-1960s. The name was taken from Henry Ford's estate, Fair Lane, near Dearborn, Michigan. The name Fairlane was also used for a model sold between 1955 and 1971 by the Ford Motor Company in North America. Over time, the name referred to a number of different cars in different classes; the Fairlane was a full-size car during the 1950s but became a mid-size car in the 1960s. The mid-sized model spawned the Australian-built Fairlane in 1967, although it was considered a large car there. Ford Australia introduced the Fairlane (ZA series) in 1967 as its most luxurious domestically built model. The Australian Fairlane was not a muscle car, but instead a luxury, long-wheelbase version of its mainstream Falcon. There were limited imports of the American Ford Galaxie 500 as the absolute top of the range, until 1973 when they were replaced by the local version of the LTD, which was a plusher, rebadged Fairlane. The Australian Fairlane line has continued uninterrupted since 1967, a claim that its nearest rival, the Holden Statesman, cannot make.
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