igor Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=27260 http://www.ford.com.cn/servlet/ContentServ...7&c=DFYPage Igor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goingincirclez Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Wow... the sedan looks wicked! I like it a lot. It will be interesting to see how well that "Bass Mouth" grille translates or is accepted here. Personally, I'm not enamored with it but I don't quite dislike it either. Look carefully at the Focus and Mondeo models shown though, and you can see how the "bass mouth" is toned down. So it does indeed seem to have a thematic precedent across the lineup. And finally... it just feels weird to be reading about looking at Fords on a chinese site... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Igor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANTAUS Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Wow, how sad looking at that communist countries website and how they get vehicles we don't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvrsvt Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Holy shit thats a good looking car...wonder how well its gonna look watered down.. Styling B-sized cars are a bitch, but between these two concepts for the verve, Ford has totally nailed it I guess Detroit is getting the 5 door hatch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danup Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Igor This is a gorgeous car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Holy shit thats a good looking car...wonder how well its gonna look watered down.. Styling B-sized cars are a bitch, but between these two concepts for the verve, Ford has totally nailed it I guess Detroit is getting the 5 door hatch? correct - also I think we can be more sure now - the new car will be called verve - not Fiesta. Igor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardJensen Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 It's a nice looking car. But the more I see that face, the less necessary the slat around the Ford logo seems. I'm wondering what will happen with the big mouth, as it moves upward through Ford's lineup.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmc523 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=27260 http://www.ford.com.cn/servlet/ContentServ...7&c=DFYPage Igor That's a good looking car, especially for a B-car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford-150 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Igor WOW that is one of the best looking small cars that i have seen correction: it is the best looking small car that i have ever seen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmc523 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 WOW that is one of the best looking small cars that i have seen correction: it is the best looking small car that i have ever seen I completely agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goingincirclez Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 It's a nice looking car. But the more I see that face, the less necessary the slat around the Ford logo seems. I'm wondering what will happen with the big mouth, as it moves upward through Ford's lineup.... Yeah. What would be cool is if they lowered it a little bit. The headlights have a subtle arrowhead look to them... if they pulled it off right, your eye would follow the flow in the sculpting, to the headlights which then "point" right to the blue oval... would be very sneaky subliminal. The more I look at that car the more I love it. Just wow. There is nothing like this out there right now. It WILL blow the segment apart if they can release it looking like that. I AM curious to see a profile shot though. If you pay attention, the greenhouse looks very symmetrical... I'd like to see how they get away with that in a dead-on side view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcsario Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 good looking car...wonder how well its gonna look watered down.. Remove the flush windows for once. This will look like a mini Mondeo from the side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcsario Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 (edited) Yup, I was right as usual Edited November 19, 2007 by pcsario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goingincirclez Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 (edited) Excellent, from the side the greenhouse isn't as symmetrical as what I extrapolated from the angled views (i.e. No FiveHundred-itis). I do have one nitpick: those taillights are as tacky as a dime-store in Hollywood. They remind me of those piss-poor custom pinstriped taillight jobs that people do to old Nissan trucks and Chevy S-10s. Fix those and I have but two words left to say: BUILD IT. NOW. (OK that was three.) Edited November 19, 2007 by goingincirclez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixt9coug Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 i dont like how the emblem is mounted on the fascia, but overall its a damn good looking car. I even like the taillights and the fish mouth is growing on me. THen again, i liked the MarkVIII too, so i guess fish mouth cars are my kind of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retro-man Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Is it just me? Why does the Chinese Ford lineup look so much more attractive to me? Mondeo? S-Max? And yes, this Verve looks pretty good. Even the Focus looks better. Remember that Chinese Buick somebody posted on here a while back? The interior was light-years ahead of the U.S. market version. WTFIUWT?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford Jellymoulds Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 The Verve looks like it going to be another big hit for Ford, my only reservations are having in built in communist China, but if Ford can make a profit from it over there then l am all for it. Not really all that sure that a European buyer would warm to buying a Chinese made Verve, buying a car is a big price item not a $20 DVD player from Walmart. Hope Ford does a bit of market reseach first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueblood Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Wow, they managed to make a B sedan look good, I wonder how much they'll change our version? Lord knows the Chinese get better Ford's then we do here in the states... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LincolnFan Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 The Verve looks like it going to be another big hit for Ford, my only reservations are having in built in communist China, but if Ford can make a profit from it over there then l am all for it. Not really all that sure that a European buyer would warm to buying a Chinese made Verve, buying a car is a big price item not a $20 DVD player from Walmart. Hope Ford does a bit of market reseach first. The European Verve/Fiesta will come from Europe, they build them there already. Remember the plant they recently bought in Romania? Compared to it's competition, if this car stays the same as the concept and goes to America that is, it will smash everyone, Honka or not, if the interior is the same as the Hatch Verve, this thing will bring Ford back to competition with a vengence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford Jellymoulds Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 The European Verve/Fiesta will come from Europe, they build them there already. Remember the plant they recently bought in Romania? Compared to it's competition, if this car stays the same as the concept and goes to America that is, it will smash everyone, Honka or not, if the interior is the same as the Hatch Verve, this thing will bring Ford back to competition with a vengence. Ford are already doing alright in Europe but you are right Lincoln exciting cars like the Verve will take Ford to the top in Europe. Europe have very much put a brick wall up to stop Chinese car imports, Honda are the only importers of Chinese built cars in Europe and nobody is touching them apart from the Honda Jazz. BMW are helping the Chinese a get foothold in the US they are just about launch this Shit. http://brillianceauto.us/home/index.html Once the Chinese get a foothold you can expect the worlds car industry move to China, very much like everything else, its very sad but you can see it coming, only the quality cars will build from their own country in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpd80 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 It's a nice looking car. But the more I see that face, the less necessary the slat around the Ford logo seems. I'm wondering what will happen with the big mouth, as it moves upward through Ford's lineup.... At least it gives adequate room for a big intercooler...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goinbroke2 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Well, everybody seems to like the look. I guess it's a good thing I'm not a designer for ford then because I find it....ugly! The front is good, but at the A pillar the lines are all mish mashed. Converging from the windshield and front of the side glass and the lines on the hood and side...I dunno, to me it looks like a committe designed it. The crease down the side looks like the one on a honda civic or whatever one has that stupid tapered crease. The side view of the rear, GROSS! What's with the tiny rear tire with massive distance between it and the bottom of the side glass? It looks like there are 16's on the front and 13" tires on the rear?? The rear end looks ok. Perhaps it looks better in person, but I don't find this car desirable in any way. And yet everybody on here is gushing about it. Apperantly I don't get it. just took another look....I think what I hate about the look is that it screams "front wheel drive". Like when you go to a dragstrip and those fart cans are there with slicks on the front. The front end is 10 ft wide and the back has these bicycle tires on it. I get the same impression from this, drivetrain in the front, a little bit of tin and shopping cart wheels out back to drag along. Maybe my bias against FWD is clouding my view? Certainly hope the public's view is the same as yours and not mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BORG Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Aside from the planet killer fascia, the car looks nice. I don't like the gaping maw, makes the face look like it's week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchdevil Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I am suprised by the sleekness of the greenhouse. This little car looks great. It's somewhat like a mini-Mondeo and Iosis. Now if Ford can just bring in some of that dynamic Iosis look to larger sedans... Remember when Ford pulled out the Taurus look to restyle the Crown Vic? If Ford put the Iosis look on the Crown Vic it just might make people completely forget about the all new platform which dates back to 1979. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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