Sherminator98

The problem is the CV is an old fart car, they need to deep six the name and use something different. Interceptor works for me!

Hey I worked for a Defence Contractor and lost my job last January...just to move down the hallway and work with another :P

Do they start with initials GD or LM? LOL The old company I used to work for got bought out by GD...

Whos that? :P

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...70382&imw=Y

Name change to Continental? :hysterical: :happy feet:

Nothing like backing up your own options based on other peoples options :rolleyes:

The Taurus story is this...it was a car so revolutionary, that it set the mid-sized car segment on its ear. Its styling alone was worlds above what was out at the time, For example look at competition: Another reason that the car is so exulted is that it pretty much saved Ford single handedly from a similar situation that it finds itself now.

True, but the point is that Expensive doesn't make cheap all that well. Just look at the LS and the S-Type and what happened with them...its easier to go the oppsite way..cheap into expensive

But Toyota is known for affordible cars, where as Benz is known for cars with snob appeal...people will turn their noses up when they find out their C class shares the same platform as a Sebring for example.

The xB and the xD looks too similar to one another, both are 4 door boxy looking things, except the xD has a slighty more styled rear area...

I'm lost here, what D3 Explorer? The Taurus X? The "Fairlane"?

Heres an excerpt from State of Fear By Michael Crichton http://www.crichton-official.com/fear/index.html

Not to mention how much the new model looks like the old 1986 1992 2000 2008

I saw the new Navagator at the NYC Auto show last year and the lighting removes the Vee shape that the upper chrome grill has...it looks much better in person, wonder if the Taurus (boy gonna be hard saying that LOL) and Focus will be like that

Nice to see finally that Ford is pushing up projects for a change...then again they need too so they don't go bankrupt... Lets see: 08 F-150 08 Fairlane 08 Lincoln Fairlane Wonder what else is getting pushed up...

LOL reminds me of this gem from Robocop! Hey wait a minute...they had Tauri in that movie too! LOL

Those AOL Poll results are kind of surprising, though an angle to look at it is people like familiarity, which helps bring piece of mind when buying an expensive product like a car... I'm on the Fence about the name and I think the Taurus X name is fucking stupid for the Freestyle, though the TX looks better then the Freestyle.

I was on business for the past 10 days or so and when coming back up from NC to Jersey...I was reading the US Today(this past Mondays) they provided in the hotel I was staying in. I was reading the business section and they had a spread in there about the Fusion Challenge adverts, but It had Road and Track run the same tests as Card and Driver did out in LA (C&D did it in Washington DC IIRC), Import Home of the USA, where it still beat out the Accord and Camary. I looked at the webpage, but didn't see anything...so was smoking something or did Ford do another Test?

Well look at it as a test to see if Ford can fix a tarnished nameplate instead of canning it.

The whole problem with Global warming is that there is no hard way to prove it unless you return the current world to 1600's time frame before the industrial revolution...

The Fusion/Taurus sales number arguments are also a moot point too... :P

Dear lord....Taurus X? Give me a break Slightly disappointed that the Montego is gone Anyways...the Freestyle/Taurus X looks pretty good...different headlights then the 500

http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto_News/...173.A11863.html Wonder how this will play out and if Benz will be hurt after all....

Well lets look at this way...they are already using the Interceptor name on the CV Guess we'll see but both the MKR and Interceptor where well recieved, and hopefully the new management isn't just all about renaming products "just because"