What is with all of this retro non-sense? I predict another Thunderbird fiasco.

The key words are luxurious and low quantity. So that means it will be a high priced halo car that few can afford.
Thunderbird - failure-high price
Soltice/Sky - success-value priced
GTO - limited success-high price
New Falcon = GTO

First automaker with a small, value priced, multi-engine option, 4 seater, rear drive handling platform will create and lead a new segment.

The ‘retro” name such as Falcon, LTD & Fairlane are still in use in Australia, so they are not retro there. If you weren’t so quick to bash Ford and actually read the article you’ll see that all they are saying is that Ford has a RWD platform to use for models here in NA, not that they are bringing any of those nameplates here.

Yeah right,these blue oval boys just cant make up their minds,last i read they were going awd from fwd and that rwd was dead. I guess rwd is now flavor of the month. Here is an idea, make a decision and stick with it.

I know that. GTO export = Falcon export

A small 4 door based on the Mustang platform with the 300 bhp V8 would be a huge hit.

Why they don’t just do it is beyond me.

Honda/Acura - are you paying attn to the RWD part?

David E. I completely agree. Those Lincoln concept cars would have put Lincoln in a whole other class. It could have been a beginning of a return to their former glory. But no, we have ugly, badged-engineered Lincolns..

Renton is right, a small 4 door sedan with 300hp and rear wheel drive mated to a proper manual transmission would be a winner around $30K. TSX price and size but with rear wheel drive and 300hp? Put my name on that waiting list.

Thing2, My guess is they are keeping Lincoln at bay to keep the brand from competing with the Premier group of vehicles.
Myself, I would put all the Premier vehicles under one roof with Lincoln.

#11: They already did that. And failed miserably. So they took Lincoln out of the PAG, with the LS being the only thing that came out of it.

Looks like a bently continental gt from behind. Bently with less nice rims.

#7: right on! RWD for life!

Yeah AMerica really wants a new Ford LTD

Hello Wayne,
What I meant was to sell all the Premier group vehicles under one dealership roof. Not the development under one roof.
regards,
Rene

A new exclusive Ford Limited? Limited to what? How many they can sell?

What I don’t understand is why doesn’t Ford sell the same cars here that it sells in AU. The Australian Focus actually looks cool, and several other cars have much more style than the Fusion (yuck). I need to move to a different continent someday, maybe I can drive a car the way it was originally designed.

The 427 was a nice piece, whatever happened to it?

Design touches (such as the grille) were used in the Ford Fusion.

They can’t call it ‘Falcon’ in the U.S.. Pepboys owns the rights to that name on their tires. However, Pep Boys could work a deal where the car has falcon tires and would get a percentage of every car sold. Wait, what’s 1 percent of zero cars sold??

Is this a push by Ford to start selling vehicles built outside of the US by non-UAW employees (see Fusion/Milan) and wait for the union to break down and decrease demands fearing that Ford would become the next importer of their globally best cost-wise competitive vehicles built somewhere else but without the “UAW tariff”? Might this be a ploy (like the rumored $9+B investment into the Mexican facilities) to ask the UAW to change or die?

WHy bother. Ford motor will always play second fiddle to the General. I’d place money on Ford’s eventual destruction within a year or two once the Generals resurgence has wiped them off the map for good.

I’d rather push my Chevy than drive a Ford. Most likely the other person is going to be pushing their Ford since they hardly ever run anyways

Detroit #1 rule: “Always Follow. ..Let the other guy take chances.”

j i m

Hey guys I actually want a Buick Enclave or a GMC Acadia (I will wait until i have driven one and felt the plastics before I buy one though) and I am a committed AUdi/VW fan so GM can get it right if it tries hard enough. The rest of GMs range is complete garbage though

Rene Curry, I did consider the possibility of an upmarket Lincoln cannibolizing Jaguar sales, but I was thinking to pit Lincoln against Cadillac and then move Jaguar up just a bit like 1 or 2 grand and use that for more luxurious materials, better mechanicals, etc. But yes, Lincoln should be under PAG and then just rid of Mercury as it no longer seres the purpose it once did.

That is a cool looking sedan in the picture, much nicer than the current 500. The Fusion is a good looking sedan, and the Mustang is awsum !

Mercury could be used to tackle Audi

Ford = VW Honda Toyota Chevy Dodge
Mercury = Audi Acura Chrysler Buick
Lincoln = Cadillac/M-B
Jaguar = BMW Maserati
Volvo = Saab
Aston Martin

All Mercury’s are badge engineered Ford’s. C’ya Mercury, you’ll be RIP just like Plymouth and Oldsmobile soon.

what a piece of crap! Now ford is making RWD cars? They really need to sell cars, to bad for ford

I am so sick of retro designs that I could just burf all over the artist that come up with these boxy, ugly turds.

chcimit ford svt f-150

What the Hell is a “rear-whee-drive sedan”…?? Some kind of urea-based hybrid??

Aren’t all BMW’s rear drive ? Mercede’s builds rear drive too ? And both Chrysler and GM (Cadillac) build rear drive sedan’s too ? So why not Ford ?

maybe the next 500, since its not doing well/larger licoln above zephyr, lincoln needs another larger sedan above zephyr

I really can apriceate the concepts and the backbone to even consider going in this direction. BRAVO!!!!