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Yep. Mustangs go fast. Next episode please. I wish they tried a Fusion around the track. A few episodes back we saw one driven over a curbstone at 50 mph so we know the car can take a beating.

Someone must light that picture on fire. And that car should be crushed in a junkyard!

Excellent! Put a chrome grille on a black car and I'd buy one of those.

I think the thing that makes the roadster look strange is the front overhang. Otherwise it looks good. The Zephyr... oh right M-K-Z coupe is very sexy.

I think it looks great.

And for the others there's always the Escape and Explorer.

I just went to the New England Auto Show and an Edge was on the turntable. I know someone commented that they thought the Edge wasn't sporty. It's no sports car, but it's (in my opinion) the best looking SUV/CUV/thingamajig/whatever I have ever looked at. I would never buy an SUV. I would never think about getting an Explorer, but I would think about an Edge, and if I had to get one this would be it. The Edge is more attractive than most cars.

The car in the ad is a Buick Century or Chevy Celebrity(around a 1984 model). It is not a Chrysler.

And the European love to flip the bird to camera men. Check out the last pic.

I did not read the article or posts in this thread but i'm going to guess what the article said. 1. dump Lincoln 2. dump Mercury 3. Sell Jaguar 4. merge Mazda and Volvo 5. close more plants 6. make smaller cars. reclassify Mercury as a dwarf planet... oh wait, that was Pluto I'm getting sick of reading these things anyway.

I imagine it is like the Chrysler 300. When seeing it in person, some angles look good and other angles look disturbing.

That statement Nickf1011 used came from my post in another forum, so I'll just say what I was thinking when I made the statement. Yes, Ford was slow in updating everything and when they did, you couldn't tell if it was updated because it still looked like the old model. But it is true that they pared their car offerings (dumping Aspire, Thunderbird, Probe, Contour, Continential, Cougar, Tracer Mystique, without replacing them with other cars.) down to half of what it was and converted those plants to truck production. One could argue that Probes and Thunderbirds were'nt selling but Ford chose to ramp up production of trucks rather than develop cars that people wanted. Other manufacturs did not abandon car production and they are not suffering as much as Ford is now. Alex Trotman said he was putting truck production over cars in an interview with Automobile magazine( around 1997). So Nick you do have a valid point from a design standpoint but I was thinking more of the production standpoint. Ford did push trucks harder at the expense of cars.

The shame is that Ford used to do this and more with just 2 cars, Taurus and Escort while having the Tempo or the Contour for more gravy. Ford bet all their chips on trucks and now...

In that case just use the brakes!

Who knows? None of those cars had the impact on the auto industry the way the Taurus did. The Taurus changed the way cars look. Also when the other cars ended production, it wasn't under the dramatic circumstances that we face today.

The Probe didn't kill the Mustang... So Ford why not? Ford: Actually the Mustang killed the Probe. I hope that when the next totally new Focus comes out they will have a sporty edition. One that is so good it will erase any bad feeling the public has about the Focus.

Does anyone have a picture of the last one? I hope someone posts it as Mr. Cathy gets the car. Anyway thank you Atlanta for building my 2 Taurus SHO's.

Blucon said DCX made a profit. Daimler floated Chrysler. A reversal of a few years ago when Chrysler held up Daimler.

It is too bad they did this to what could have been a legendary name plate. Maybe in 20 years they'll revive the name on another car. I had two Taurus cars. I did not have a "vulcan" engine, mine were the Klingon engined SHO's.

It's simple. Caddy did it that way and Ford is pulling a "me too". This new name thing is just plain dumb. The Boston Herald put out an article about the Zephyr being replaced by the v8 MKS in Sept. It is the MKZ that replaces the Zephyr. Not only can't anyone remember the names or get the cars right, but now they created the impression that the Zephyr was a failure, and the Herald claimed that in their article too. Alpha numeric names didn't work for the Lincoln LS. Lincoln must copy Caddy who must copy the German names. Ford does have an alpha-numeric name. It's just spelled out "Five Hundred". And yes, you have to say "Ford" in front of it like you have to say the brand in front of any alpha numeric name. Zephyr, Continentail, and even Mark spelled out were rich traditional names, and as I said before Heritage is a great asset when used wisely, Mustang being the best example. Build something that looks new off of your tradition. The Germans have a tridition of naming cars off of letters and numbers, so they can get away with it. The Japanese started with nothing in the Luxury field ,so they could get away with copies of German alpha numeric names. I just want someone in America to stand up and not be ashamed to produce something that's American and not copy everything the foreign companies do.

Wow, it looks like the concept except the back doors aren't backwards (clamshell).

Jaguar's problem is that they are not producing products that the customers want. And they put too many eggs in the Xtype basket to increase volume too quickly. The whole XType situation seemed to stem from someone at the top saying, "double the sales now! I don't care what you have to put together to do it." X type isn't a bad car, it should have been a Lincoln or Volvo instead.

Ah, You're new to the board. Everyone has been saying this for years. The downside which is always argued is that Ford of Europe's cars don't sell well here. (Merkur Xr4ti, Scorpio, Contour & Mistique...)

Nice car. I hope you didn't buy the one that they were testing in the video!

------------------------------------------------- Again, more proof the new Lincoln names are a bad idea.