It has been a full year since Ford Falcon production ended, and Highway Patrol police fleets around the country are now trickling onto auction forecourts around the country.

Around a year ago MOTOR reported of the hammer falling on former NSW Highway Patrol examples of both the Falcon XR6 Turbo and XR8 (and their Commodore SS equivalents) from under $25,000 – or less than half the price new, for a three-year-old vehicle.

Now, however, most of the FG Mark II fleet has been exhausted, with – from the Waratah state’s fleet at least – a single 2014 XR6 Turbo this week filing into the Pickles auction house in Belmore, New South Wales, with 94,000km on the clock and selling for $19,750.

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But otherwise full service history is assured, plus you get FPV alloys with Brembo brakes behind them, which weren’t standard on an XR6 Turbo.

While that three-year-old FG Mark II price hasn’t come down much from last year, the following – and better looking, and better all-round – FG X XR6 Turbo has dropped.

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Modern classics proving popular at auction

Alternatively, another two-year-old 2015 XR6 Turbo in the same colour was on the floor with 76,000km, but sold at auction with the hammer coming down at $25,750 – so, essentially, $2500 extra to reduce kilometres by a quarter.

Either way, the police fleet of Ford Falcons is continuing to dwindle, and they remain a dirt cheap way to access 270kW of power and 533Nm of torque. Or, if you’re a Holden fan, a one-year-old Commodore SS managed to notch up 93,000km within a calendar year on New South Wales’ finest fleet, and it shifted at auction for $29,750 – or the price of a new Camry.