First in…wooo-hooo! The article? Who cares.

i agree….. why is this news??? L-A-M-E! It’s 20 years away before anybody can buy/lease a mass-market hydrogen car. (i know there will a few coming out in few years, but very low volume and for goverment fleets and such)
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Another thing….. WHY DO ALL HYDROGEN CARS/SUVS HAVE THOSE DUMB WILD DECALS ALL OVER THE BODIES????? Sheeesh!! Keep it clean and normal…..

Go Blue!

In case anyone is wondering why they picked the name:
The 999 was Henry Ford’s entry into the Manufacturers’ Challenge Cup in Grosse Pointe Township on October 25th, 1902. The 999 was the winner of the race by a full lap. “Although rated at only 70 horsepower, some Detroit publications gushed that the output of the 999 was actually more like 100 horsepower. As for the ride of his latest model, Ford himself admitted: ‘I cannot quite describe the sensation. Going over Niagara Falls would have been but a pastime after a ride in one of them.” Source: Douglas Brinkley’s Wheels for the World, a very interesting history of the first 100 years of Ford. In truth, the original vehicular 999 is probably more significant than this HFC version. The 999 gave Ford a ton of publicity which enabled it to continue making cars.

Thanks Tree. I just thought Ford was being cute with a ‘hydrogen-powered Fusion’.
More power to them. I want to see American car makers give Honda and Toyota real competition. In the end we will all benefit.

Agreed. While I’m not firmly in FORD’s corner anymore I am glad that they are making some kind of effort. But If they really wanted to impress us they’d at least do what Honda and Toyota are doing with Fuel cells and Hybrids.. even if they are late to the party… and that is: Put this stuff on the road as a very public road test and development of technology.

Enough of this secretive junk! Just show us what you have and let us see your work!! If it’s that crappy fine, hide it, otherwise be proud that you can get it on the road and working.

As for the speed record… Honda will take it back by a wide margin the next year. While Their Hybrid program is falling a bit short next to Toyota’s they are, I think further along with fuel cells. They even have plans to field a Hydrogen Fuel cell powered Prototype class racer, by way of Acura, before 2020. and Chrysler had a Hybrid Prototype class car almost ready to go back in the mid 1990s.

Get it in gear FORD!!!

Photoshop, anyone?

This car wasn’t photoshopped its real, you can see it at Ford.com. As far as Ford being behind in the Fuel cell thing, they’ve been researching it for 10 years. They also do have a fleet of fuel cell vehicles that have been on the road for like 3 years now. Sounds like you’re not to keen on what the domestics are doing as far as alternative fuels are concerned.

Yes. This promo image is photoshop, probably from FORD’s own design studio. Likely to design the paint job.

Admittedly, Detroit has not been as visible or vocal about their efforts as Japan or Europe so they look extremely behind. This will also hurt them when they do have a sell-able product because most will believe that Detroit just pulled out of their collective @$$ and didn’t put forward the work that TOYOTA, HONDA, MERCEDES, or BMW has made most public.

This could help but as I said before, FORD and Detroit needed to make this kind of effort a long time ago.

LAME who gives a **** about ford???

this goes down as one of the most pointless goals around. making a record for a technology that is far from ready for mass market. here’s a goal for you ford…make a car (that’s) not a mustang that people actually will have fun driving!!!!

Younggun – A truely “young” gun indeed. How do you think new technologies make it into production vehicles? It’s establishing these types of goals that help bring this technology to market. Most people in the market for a new vehicle tend to look for a bit more than “fun”, like gas mileage and efficiency. If I were you, I would be more excited about this bit of news. Besides the fact that fuel cells run on the most plentiful element in the universe, it will also mean an end to the constant nagging and bitching about gas guzzling and oil consumption from the libs.

Careful son, you might shot yourself in the foot with that one.

It’s because of the “Libs” that something is being done at all. If it were up the to the “Cons”, no one would care for better f/econ or global warming or all that other good stuff that is pushing technology forward at long last.

Liberals (better known now as “Progressives”) tend to want forward moving change while Conservatives tend to favor the status quo and little or no change unless it directly benefits them and their special interests. If they had their way no one born after 1988 would know what a blue sky looked like.

go blue.

Blakkar

Conservatives are looking out for the rich and giant faceless corporations. anything that will slow down those groups getting what they want will be met with oppo from the GOP

Nothing like a good ol’ fashion “my team is better than your team” debate. I suppose I could equally say Liberals won’t stop until they have repealed the bill of rights and transformed this country into a Social-ist regime. Go red.

Blakkar – People care about fuel economy because of gas prices. EVERYBODY cares about the environment, the Blues and the Reds. And 80% of the public also sees Global Warming alarmism is a scam. Don’t confuse corporate pigs with Conservatives or Liberals or Republicans and Democrats. Yes, the two parties tend to balance the system a bit. Maybe if the libs didn’t push for the environment so much there would be more factory pollution. If the conservatives didn’t push back, then those factories would be closed and people would be out of jobs and out of money. Balance.

My vote goes to any candidate that will lower my taxes, will protect this country, and preserve my rights and freedoms.

Here’s a great article. Vote along party lines, in this case those “blues” and this is what you get: A ban of all sports cars. And who says global warming isn’t about social-ism and redistribution of wealth?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=aijQ0.2BMGw8&refer=home

Well if you think this land speed thing is dumb maybe you should look in the mirror and ask yourself this question. “Do I want to live to be old?” I’ll tell you this much, I fell alot better knowing they can get this **** to work at 300 mph and putting out 700 hp, since civilian applications are far less complex and powerful, it should be a piece of cake to make it work for me. Thats exactly the point of doing this you morons. (just the people who said this is dumb)

musclemustang, sir, there is no need for the condescension. The vehicle is real, and that promo shot is very clearly computer-generated. The telltale signs are the smoothness of the gradients and the uniformity/clarity/angle of the text, particularly “hydrogen”.

Yeah the picture is fake. I was just trying to say that the car is real, they have a picture of it on Ford.com. Sorry If i came off as angry.

Go Blue!
as in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Not the democrates, who are the same whores as the republicans, except they’re beholden to different giant faceless corporations

Go Blue!
as in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, not the democrats.

No substantive difference between the two parties anyway.

They’re both corrupt and put the working man last

BOLD MOVES……CONTINUE BEING BOLD.