Oh shit, I think Ford took my Ad Advice

[Vettezuki]

I'm probably not the only one who feels this way because corporations don't just go will-nilly into the market place with potential piss off ideas. But I might of, errm, cough, emailed Ford once or twice on going for the jugular and reminding the buying public that they are the true American company, and that GM are a bunch of whinny "daddy save me" socialistic nannies.

Ford Drive One "Press Conference: Chris" Commerical - YouTube


Now, if Ford would just build a god damned two seater sports car.

Like this would do just fine, say twin turbo 5L.

http://c-car.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Ford-Cobra-concept-car1.jpg

[silverscmustang]

except that just looks like a cartooned genisis coupe lol

[Shaolin Crane]

Yeah that thing is fucking ugly

[Vettezuki]

except that just looks like a cartooned genisis coupe lol

That's quite a stretch I think, even with the cartooning.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hyundai-genesis-coupe-2010-793431.jpg


It does bear some resemblance to some cues from the Alfa Romeo 8C though.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1155/565773884_dbdd84320e.jpg

[Vettezuki]

Yeah that thing is fucking ugly

You've taken some trauma to the head over the years huh? :smack:

A totally different direction, rather than the modern Euro-coupe, would be to go retro with a Type 65 take off.

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs43/f/2009/135/9/9/Ford_Cobra_concept_8_by_cipriany.jpg

[silverscmustang]

mostly just looking at the dip in the beltline. Its just way to bubbly overall. Not giving a muscle vibe if you ask me

[silverscmustang]

BTW how do you put the video in the post like that? I wanted to post a video butno matter what I do, in the preview post window i cant ever get the video in the post.

[Vettezuki]

BTW how do you put the video in the post like that? I wanted to post a video butno matter what I do, in the preview post window i cant ever get the video in the post.

It's a little sensitive, but if it's from YT, just paste the link in where you want the video, don't put anything around the link. However, these days, there's a bout a million ways to form URLs because of how people use them to do tracking, and our plugin is pretty dumb. The URL would need to look like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mwjaEI_hM

[silverscmustang]

cool thanks

[Shaolin Crane]

You've taken some trauma to the head over the years huh? :smack:

A totally different direction, rather than the modern Euro-coupe, would be to go retro with a Type 65 take off.

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs43/f/2009/135/9/9/Ford_Cobra_concept_8_by_cipriany.jpg

More than you would like to know im sure, bone scans show increased thickness now however. Now that car is sexy, but that other ugly "looks like a solstace had sibling sex with a focus now retarded child" car is something i would have had as a hotwheel, and probably burned for being so fucking ugly.


Did i also mention its uglier than micheal jackson when his nose fell off.

[Leedom]

I was talking with Sean and I agree with him... why invest all the money in a 2 seater when you may only sell about 30K units a year? Not saying I would not want it but I see why not.

[Vettezuki]

I was talking with Sean and I agree with him... why invest all the money in a 2 seater when you may only sell about 30K units a year? Not saying I would not want it but I see why not.

Why'd they build the GT then? It can be a Halo platform. As for total units globally, it could be higher. Remember Ford has more cache in Europe than GM does, especially in the UK. They would NEVER buy a Vette in any real numbers, but if Ford did a good job, and it would have to be a good job, the Brits would snap them up too. In short, I think the business case for 30k units globally seems arbitrarily tied to typical Vette sales.

[Shaolin Crane]

They made the gt for nostalgia :huh:

[Vettezuki]

They made the gt for nostalgia :huh:

In a sense perhaps. They made it to go after the F430 (AIR) in a sort of celebration of the famous Ford/Ferrari kerfuffle surrounding Ford's bid to buy Ferrari and Le Mans. That was an interesting time.

The point is they spent some scratch on a halo car that definitely brought some prestige to Ford.

[Shaolin Crane]

Ahh what would have been if ford bought ferrari

[Vettezuki]

Ahh what would have been if ford bought ferrari

Well, their best years weren't exactly just after the 60s so my guess is they would've been sold at some point along the way when it was clear Ferrari wasn't exactly a good fit with Ford. Consider the more recent, and more plausible Aston Martin. Basically, all Ford did was modernize Aston Martin. There's some funny stories about that.