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There are pieces of this I like--the rear, the profile--but those 3/4 views are nasty. This is a vehicle that will benefit from being toned down from the concept.

That rear end needs some serious work. It's sad, because the back of the MKX is gorgeous.

This car looks like the future. Gorgeous, and deserving of the Taurus name.

The Tempo/Topaz were cheap enough that people didn't say, "Well, I can spend x more dollars and get a backseat that doesn't cause lower-limb paralysis in adults." Like the 96 Taurus, Ford went upmarket without quite having the horses or the market perception to do it.

Now I don't tow, but wouldn't all of this be true of the Explorer, too?

That Seville is the most ungainly car I think I'll ever see. Holy god.

I've finally gotten parallel parking down pretty well but I can definitely appreciate an automated system. Scratch that: people who are in the car with me when I'm trying to parallel park would definitely appreciate an automated system.

I don't like the headlights on this car very much--they seem a little "off" from the grille, at least in these shots--but great shape, outstanding interior, and I love the Interceptor-y taillights.

I think it's better this way, honestly. The more board fragmentation you have, the less discussion you have. There's no reason people shouldn't be talking about Ford and Toyota on the same board.

I've never driven a New Edge Cougar; what were the inadequacies of the platform? The car rags always loved the Contour platform, did something get lost in translation? A beautiful looking car, in any case.

Normally VW is pretty good at hitting the 45-year-old ex-hipster mom market with their advertising, but the Beetle talk-show just makes me unbelievably uncomfortable, not to mention the German engineering that goes into the front clip of their Town and Some Other Country.

I love it. Lots of powertrain options, sharp-looking, and the interior... the mules had me worried, because it looked mostly unchanged, but everything looks really "tightened" here. More athletic, to put an adjective where it doesn't belong. The old Fusion interior has solid materials but no coherence in design; this one looks more like the superior Aura/Malibu interiors. Someone please tell me this: the mid-size market is bigger in the states, right, than it is in Europe? And this is obviously a more than competitive product--great powertrains, great exterior, great interior, lots of options. (And, in my opinion, it's considerably more attractive than the overweight-looking, fussy Mondeo.) Why is Ford Europe heading up production on the next mid-sizer? If it's a Euro-midsize-must-be-more-luxurious thing, don't the MKZ and Milan upmarket versions in the states seem like a fine way to integrate things? I'll miss the Fusion when it's gone.

This bug-eyed are-you-making-money Senator needs to take a flying leap. You can certainly be against the bail-out but at least know something about the business.

Great shape but I'm increasingly blah on the kinetic surface details. Excellent looking B-sedan.

Would that make the 96 bubble SHO and the current Impala/GP/LaCrosse SS/GXP/Super muscle cars?

Love it. Forward looking where the 05 looked back.

This thing shows exactly why the Edge works as a design and the T-X doesn't. It looks like a minivan, more than a wagon, for what that's worth.

Of course, Ford acts like it doesn't even want the Ranger, itself. But you're right--Mazda finally has its own image, and there's no chance it dilutes that image for a full-size truck.

Me too--in fact, I came onto this topic just to say so. Great proportions, incredibly low and sleek looking, and unencumbered by the retro stuff that made the (admittedly gorgeous) 2002 Birds impossible to follow up. I'd have loved to see a New Edge successor to MN12.

I don't think the EB4 has been expected in the Fusion at launch for a while now--it's always been a mid-mid-cycle thing. Glad to hear about the 3.5. A while back I was mad that they were putting the 3.0PIP in instead as the base V6, but given the ensuing gas panic it seems like a very prescient move.

It makes more sense to Ford than to GM, which is like saying it makes more sense to set my neighbor's house on fire than my own.

Love that Prelude interior, for some reason. It looks like something Jeff Bridges would drive in TRON. Anyway, looks like the Cruze beats out its first interior competitor.

Of course they are--all you have to do is stomp really hard on the ground and gas comes out. Might as well get that F99950 you've always dreamed about.

This makes no sense at all. Aside from the excellent minivans Chrysler has nothing that wouldn't need to be switched out for a badge-engineered GM product, and the last thing GM needs is a fourth(!!) volume brand and a second near-lux brand.

You've gotta work on a new saying, man. Anyway, the Cobalt's cheaper than the Focus, and it gets better mileage than the Focus, but it's increased its sales less this year; meanwhile, the new 2008 Ford Focus HA (for hideous abortion, of course) has gained a fair amount on its less aborted, cheaper predecessor, as well as the Civic and [all new] Corolla. Maybe--and just maybe--not everyone shares your opinion, and people find the new Focus better appointed! and more attractive! than both its predecessor and its competitors.