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This is just flipping wrong

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From CNN:

"...reports that Ford could make four-door versions of its next-generation Mustang."

Well, I guess we can say that the design geniuses who created the Gremlin, the Pacer and the Aztek have managed to find jobs in the Ford design divison.


Bad idea. A Geniune, First Class Bad Idea. Please stop making great cars into crap. Is it that hard? You dorks at Ford need to just go into the parking lot and see whatever your driving and dont make anything that looks like that, ok? Thats simple enough. No more cozy suburban econoblocks ok? You want to make a 4 door car, fine. Just dont call it a "Mustang". Call it a "Donkey", a "Mule", a "Platypus" or a nice cuddly "Cocker Spaniel" if you want, but for Gods sake dont call it a "Mustang".

This is a Mustang:

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This is also a Mustang:

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This is a man, driving a Mustang:

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You get it now, Ford? Its not just about how many cup holders and kiddie car seats and vanity mirrors you can stuff in your little metal pinata. Sometimes its about the self respect that comes from driving a car that both performs like an actual "sportscar"; something that generates adrenaline when you press the gas pedal and doesnt look like something oldsmobile rejected as being "too suburbo-safe even for our aging demographic". "Sports" being the operative part of the word "SPORTS-car". Sportscars are not Barcaloungers with wheels. Sportscars are not SmallRv's, You do not care about the back seat or the rearview mirrors in a "sportscar". Does anyone making cars or designing them actually love cars anymore? Are they all just clockwatching wussies waiting for retirement? I tell you what, you guys at Ford, the next time you go into a design meeting and ask " What can we do to improve sales" you take out a gun and shoot the first person that says " Let's put 4 doors on a sportscar and make it look like a Tempo or a rounded edge K car". If you have a meeting a day like that inside of a month, people will start looking for other solutions than to make perfectly good sportscars "Safe for mom to drive".

Idiots. Fricken Idiots. Go take a look at "Mom", Shes might have a Minivan for the kids, but shes got her eyes on a MiniCooper because its the closest thing out there to a true sports car that hasnt been turned into a big-rolling-turd.

Quality.
Fast.
Scary.
Uncomfortable for anyone but the driver.

That's a Sportscar. The word "Cozy" and "good for the kids" doesnt come into the recipe.

Someone get Bob Lutz on the phone.

Sure. I drive a car that looks like it was designed by "Black and Decker", but its not a sportscar. Its SUV, a "Sport" -"Utility"-Vehicle. An SUV is supposed to look like something from a toolbox, not a Minivan with ground clearance.


Posted @ December 14, 2006 10:16 AM | Current Affairs

Comments

As a proud owner of a 2005 convertible Mustang, I have to say "WTF ARE THEY THINKING!!!!! STOP THE PAIN NOW!"

Posted by: Roger at December 14, 2006 11:33 AM

Calm down, you reactionary old f*rts. Maybe they're just talking about a couple little suicide doors. Which is about the only option I can think of that would fit, and would also look cool.

Posted by: Jay Stranahan at December 15, 2006 10:06 AM

ha!

(old man voice): " ...in my day, we didnt have no fancy schamcy talk about horsepower this and horsepower that, we had real horses, one for each man, and WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!"

suicide doors. hmmm. Now its funny you say that because I have them on my car. Whats funny is all the reviewers hated them, but my own experience is that everyone that sees them, loves them. My kids love them. So, ok maybe. but 4 doors on a Mustang? eh,no. sorry. Just call it something else and say it was "inspired by the mustangs design lines", but dont try to palm it off as a Mustang. They already went that route with the big fiberglass Mark I mustang.

Posted by: Frank Martin at December 15, 2006 11:30 AM

Get a Corvette. Dang, seems so simple to me. If you can't afford a sports car, get a nice car you can afford.

Mazda RX8 has four doors, looks pretty good, a bit more expensive than a Mustang.

Beg your pardon, but why should a SPORTScar be a wimp?

Posted by: tomthesubmariner at December 25, 2006 06:44 PM