anything is better than the Freestar, minivans are done

We’re trading up the Boxster to a 911 …I’d be happy to switch the Escape for one of these new Fairlanes – as long as it’s not 2/3rds size like the HHR, PT Cruiser, etc..

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Honda Element slightly stretched.

I like the car but this “bold moves” campaign seems so lame. I feel almost as if they’re insulting my intelligence. I hope it works…

Honda element are you blind? Really come on not even close.

If executed properly, this car could be really huge.
Anyone noticing that they’re playing with a car that has proper door handles and no suicide doors though? Where I’m talking about is like 5/6 of the way through the video. Is this another vehicle or do you think that they’re already moved forward with the concept significantly?

I like how eager and enthusiastic all the Ford execs seem about the Fairlane. You can almost see their tails wagging.
It feels like we have been hearing about the Fairlane forever tho’ and it is still a way off. How long does it take Ford from concept design to showroom compared to other manufacturers? I hope they get the pricing, options and quality right.

I like this story from CNN Money:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/12/news/companies/ford.reut/index.htm?section=money_latest

DETROIT (Reuters) — Ford Motor Co. said Thursday Chief of Staff and Chairman Bill Ford Jr.’s brother-in-law Steve Hamp will leave the company Oct. 31, after which the automaker will eliminate the post.

I guess “Chairman’s brother-in-law” is no longer an offical job title at FoMoCo. : )

Hal, this thing was given the go-ahead in September, and they want to get it to production for ‘08. That is by no means slow. Tradition is that it takes three years from go-ahead to production, so they’ll have to move quickly. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of work went into this vehicle before they publically announced its production.

Although, if you remember back to the earlier episode about the GT-H going into normal production, they talked about how they want to speed up their development cycle, so this is their chance to prove it.

I thought they shelved this…I’d rather give the fairlane name back to the car…send the Aussie fairlane here…

To the Honda Element submission above: Sounds like my spouse…everything looks like some Honda or another.

I wouldn’t mind if this vehicle had a honeycombe grille and no ridges in the body…

wow a bigger scion xB, whodathunkit?

Wow……… these guys know how to use a ruler.

Brendino – I’m pretty sure the Fairlane concept was unveiled at the Detroit show in January 05 so here we are nearly 2 years later and they are still talking about the Fairlane as the “new thing” and it is still over a year away from the showroom. Just doesn’t seem very “bold”. Its like the Camaro – I’m tired of hearing about it and I haven’t even seen one on the road.

I agree, quit talking about it and just get the thing into production and out on the showroom floor. It is so sad to see so many people just mulloing around and things not really moving fast enough.

And I find it humorous and ironic how Ford points out that most concept cars do not make it into production and they are the world class leaders in doing just that….producing great concepts and then either not producing them or dumbing them down to boring boxes…i.e. Lincoln Continental Concept and Lincoln Zephyr Concept.

I’ll watch and see what happens, but I’m not holding my breath….. I’m shopping elsewhere.

P.S. Mark Fields needs to lay off the Grecian formula and get a new rug/weave or whatever…I think he makes enough money to NOT have to look like that!

am i the only person who thinks this looks gay there just copping the element and the element looks retared by the way!!

This is the worst car ive ever seen i can’t believe they would even think of producing it. Im a Ford Fan and it just kills me when i see cars like this released, and why did they have to take our 40 year old name from ford Australia

FreshShoeBox wrote:
>>… I feel almost as if they’re insulting my intelligence.
>>…I hope it works…
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LOL.

ford is going crap if this is how they plan to compeate with gm well this car will go good against a 100thousand mile warrenty dee dee dee!!!

Poor man’s Range Rover!

Aussie #1 – Fairlane was a nameplate here in the US long before it went Down Under.

However this Fairlane is 2 years too late if they make it to market in time for the ‘09 model year – typical Ford foot-dragging…