Horsepower is Horsepower...now GIDDYUP!
11-22-2006, 12:03 PM
#21
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RE: Horsepower is Horsepower...now GIDDYUP!
I agree with you except for the Taurus. The Taurus revolutionized the market when it first came out and was the best selling car for 5+ years. Ford let it die a slow death...
ORIGINAL: rattsj
It would be interesting but the truth of the matter is that ford has put out a lot of new cars over the years and they have yet to come up with 1 new good idea. ie probe, taurus, tempo, pinto, every new car they bring to production sux @ss. The only thing they do well is make the old new and better. ie Mustangs, Trucks, GT, Town cars. Thats fords market. They are good at it. THey have loyal buyers. But right now they are still recovering from overproducing those. So new model fords will be conservative and aimed at current market trends. Rather than new and exciting low production # cars. I don't think anything beyond Mustang or other mass production model speciatly cars will be built for the next 10 years while ford tries to recover.
It would be interesting but the truth of the matter is that ford has put out a lot of new cars over the years and they have yet to come up with 1 new good idea. ie probe, taurus, tempo, pinto, every new car they bring to production sux @ss. The only thing they do well is make the old new and better. ie Mustangs, Trucks, GT, Town cars. Thats fords market. They are good at it. THey have loyal buyers. But right now they are still recovering from overproducing those. So new model fords will be conservative and aimed at current market trends. Rather than new and exciting low production # cars. I don't think anything beyond Mustang or other mass production model speciatly cars will be built for the next 10 years while ford tries to recover.
11-22-2006, 02:30 PM
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RE: Horsepower is Horsepower...now GIDDYUP!
Then they replaced the Taurus with the 500 which is dieing a quick and painful death.
Edit: Or is that the Fusion...anyhow sales for both are low.
Edit: Or is that the Fusion...anyhow sales for both are low.
ORIGINAL: timothyrw
I agree with you except for the Taurus. The Taurus revolutionized the market when it first came out and was the best selling car for 5+ years. Ford let it die a slow death...
I agree with you except for the Taurus. The Taurus revolutionized the market when it first came out and was the best selling car for 5+ years. Ford let it die a slow death...
ORIGINAL: rattsj
It would be interesting but the truth of the matter is that ford has put out a lot of new cars over the years and they have yet to come up with 1 new good idea. ie probe, taurus, tempo, pinto, every new car they bring to production sux @ss. The only thing they do well is make the old new and better. ie Mustangs, Trucks, GT, Town cars. Thats fords market. They are good at it. THey have loyal buyers. But right now they are still recovering from overproducing those. So new model fords will be conservative and aimed at current market trends. Rather than new and exciting low production # cars. I don't think anything beyond Mustang or other mass production model speciatly cars will be built for the next 10 years while ford tries to recover.
It would be interesting but the truth of the matter is that ford has put out a lot of new cars over the years and they have yet to come up with 1 new good idea. ie probe, taurus, tempo, pinto, every new car they bring to production sux @ss. The only thing they do well is make the old new and better. ie Mustangs, Trucks, GT, Town cars. Thats fords market. They are good at it. THey have loyal buyers. But right now they are still recovering from overproducing those. So new model fords will be conservative and aimed at current market trends. Rather than new and exciting low production # cars. I don't think anything beyond Mustang or other mass production model speciatly cars will be built for the next 10 years while ford tries to recover.
11-22-2006, 03:46 PM
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RE: Horsepower is Horsepower...now GIDDYUP!
Two years ago I got my first car.... It was a Taurus. People kept making fun of it becuase they said it was a Grandma's car. The bad thing is.... they were right... it did belong to my grandmother first :/ I just rolled up to school one day in a 06 Mustang GT and shut everyone up. It was great 
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11-22-2006, 04:45 PM
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RE: Horsepower is Horsepower...now GIDDYUP!
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It looks like it's about to transform into a robot or somethin
It looks like it's about to transform into a robot or somethin
11-22-2006, 04:57 PM
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RE: Horsepower is Horsepower...now GIDDYUP!
I think it looks cool...very aggressive!
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Would you really care what it looked like if you could fit yao ming under your front bumper when you launched?
ORIGINAL: mAnYsTyLeS
It looks like it's about to transform into a robot or somethin
It looks like it's about to transform into a robot or somethin
11-22-2006, 04:59 PM
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RE: Horsepower is Horsepower...now GIDDYUP!
ORIGINAL: mAnYsTyLeS
I think it looks cool...very aggressive!
I think it looks cool...very aggressive!
ORIGINAL: bl1nkage
Would you really care what it looked like if you could fit yao ming under your front bumper when you launched?
ORIGINAL: mAnYsTyLeS
It looks like it's about to transform into a robot or somethin
It looks like it's about to transform into a robot or somethin
