Lucy, you got some esplainin to do.

Quality is JOB 1

Electrical fire in the door panel. Or someone hooked up the power source for the car wrong (they don't run on batteries during the autoshow, they power the car off a landline for its headlights and the like).

The latter has happened before and will happen again. Normally you power up the display a day or two before the black tie and make sure no one is smoking. Nothing says fun like watching smoke come out from under a Corvette while you try to figure out which wire to pull. Then you go find someone to scream at for connecting the vehicle and landline with a bunch of carpet fuzz in between.

See I knew Obama would gix the American auto industry's competitiveness! What Asian car company currently offers smoked hickory interior? None!

HURR DURR FORD

Typical American made crap.

The styling reminds me of a Hyundai crossed with a Dodge Charger.

MonstarMike: Is it just me or does it look like every new year cars get stretched taller? I've really noticed this with the reintroduction of all the "classic muscle car" brands. Seems that someone pulled them up like laffy taffy.

I like the overall design concept, but when it is dumbed down for production it will still look like the same old junk they've been putting out for years.


And it will still be a smoking pile of Ford crap like they have been putting out for years, too.

Ford runs a smart business, I do have to admit that. But they have to, because they have shiat for a product.

Yeah I'll be buying an American car again real soon...

It's all just smoke and mirrors.

It's a concept car - pretty much hand built by art students and first year engineers.. not a production vehicle.

If you own a German car please exclude yourself from any ridicule about wiring and or electrical systems. Glass houses and stuff..

The Japanese and Koreans have plenty of their own problems. Only Toyota, under the weight of soul shattering shame, has started to aggressively recall faulty vehicles. The rest of the apac are still on the Baghdad Bob plan. The quality gap has narrowed far more than Honda fanboys want to admit.

/but by all means carry on

Push-button transmission? Really. You would think that they learned better the first time.

Fumes and Odors Readily Detectable

When you see smoke, there's fire. Maybe the first thing to do is frantically scroll through your smartphone like some overdressed hipster?

/fire, there's an app for that

Why did nobody disconnect the battery, or power wire. Doesn't it have some fuses somewhere?

across the floor, chevy was still trying to figure out how come the daytime running lights don't work.

Cool looking car though. The Fusion caught my eye too.

mudpants: Why did nobody disconnect the battery, or power wire. Doesn't it have some fuses somewhere?

Once the insulation starts smoldering/the plastic melting, it is going to smoke for awhile. If you've cut power, odds are the fire isn't going to really spread and there isn't that much in a door that can catch on fire. At that point it is figuring if you roll the car off with your tail between your legs or wait until the autoshow closes and then rip the door off.

By the way the standard for failure is when Saab was showing off their auto stop feature at an autoshow (pedestrian comes out and the car stops itself). So people got in the car, and inflatable pedestrian pops up, and the car stops itself. At the autoshow that sensor failed and in front of a large crowd the pedestrian was rundown. I really wish I could find the video of the Saab executive trying to recover from that demo.

Volvo also had a great failure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ZwS9izm4E

/all the auto companies have been biatching about the poor repair of the Cobo
//maybe they'd decided that if they burn it down, Detroit has to fix it

MonstarMike: theorellior: MonstarMike: I've really noticed this with the reintroduction of all the "classic muscle car" brands. Seems that someone pulled them up like laffy taffy.

I don't see how anyone can stand driving them, it looks like you're peering out at the world from a series of slits. I'd go bonkers with that much blindspot.

It has to be a regulation or something that's happened recently. I look at the first run of the new MINIs ('02-'06, I think) and they're noticeably "shorter" than my '09. Again, it seems like they pulled it up from the top. I noticed it on the other cars first then took a hard look at mine (and pretty much any newer car compared to the same model 5 or so years ago). I just can't believe that it is a styling thing.

Rollover risk tests were updated in 2004 and now include a dynamic course test. So now suddenly we care about that. Actually we always cared, it was just harder to override the design department back when the federal government cared.

/yes the tank slits suck
//a lot of designs had their height cut and their windscreens shrunk because we also had to expand the pillars
/for what it is worth, backup sensors and cameras are going to become a lot more standard over the next generation of vehicles

Let me know when they look like this.


/hot, like Christine licking The Car's balls.

Government Fromage: Jack Black 62: ows: across the floor, chevy was still trying to figure out how come the daytime running lights don't work.

Or why the union labor wheels kept falling off.

CSB time: I attempted to take a 2011 Mazda 6 for a test drive, but one of the front wheels fell off before I left the lot.

If that happened to me, I would've laughed at the salesman, got in my own car and drove away.

So, its a concept piece of junk, which will later be turned into a production piece of junk that barely resembles the original concept.

/hoo-ray for the american car

My pappy said "Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln."

Aaand of course there's no photo of the car. Fail.

Looks like he got a new line of work. No surprise; Freemasonry opens doors.

Don't all Ford products spontaneously catch fire at some point? I thought it was a feature.

Meh it's just another American car. I wouldn't buy one.

MonstarMike: Is it just me or does it look like every new year cars get stretched taller? I've really noticed this with the reintroduction of all the "classic muscle car" brands. Seems that someone pulled them up like laffy taffy.

I like the overall design concept, but when it is dumbed down for production it will still look like the same old junk they've been putting out for years.

The other trend in car design is the short windows that became all the rage after the Chrysler 300C. Tall car, short windows. It worked great there because the 300C made you think "badass mob car, cool", and then EVERYONE did it. Yuck.

Jack Black 62: Next they will be asking for a bailout and Obama will give it to them.

tacks: See I knew Obama would gix the American auto industry's competitiveness! What Asian car company currently offers smoked hickory interior? None!

Isn't it fun to pretend that Ford took bailout money??!!

hillary: theorellior: I don't see how anyone can stand driving them [classic muscle car reintroductions], it looks like you're peering out at the world from a series of slits. I'd go bonkers with that much blindspot.

It's not just muscle cars. Backing out of a parking spot in a Toyota Prius is a challenging game of blind man's bluff -- maybe you'll hit a pedestrian, maybe you won't, just keep the radio on low so you can hear the "thump."

Or, I don't know, use the backup camera...

poindxtr: My pappy said "Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln."

Came for this

/Leaving satisfied

I'm really liking what Ford has done with the 2013 Fusion.

What I think of when the words Hot and Auto Show appear in the same sentence.



/you're welcome

Devolving_Spud: Don't all Ford products spontaneously catch fire at some point? I thought it was a feature.

only the cars built before 2005

/Ford has improved their quality A LOT in the last few years.

Poor Lincoln. They're just gussied up Fords. Kill the brand. You know you want to.

theorellior: MonstarMike: I've really noticed this with the reintroduction of all the "classic muscle car" brands. Seems that someone pulled them up like laffy taffy.

I don't see how anyone can stand driving them, it looks like you're peering out at the world from a series of slits. I'd go bonkers with that much blindspot.

Especially the new Camaro. The body style just sucks, however; the Dodge Charger looks pretty much close to the early-mid 70's version.

Lincoln MKZ concept car:




2013 Fusion:

Rapmaster2000: Poor Lincoln. They're just gussied up Fords. Kill the brand. You know you want to.

Yes please. Take it to a theater...

Farkin'round: Especially the new Camaro. The body style just sucks, however; the Dodge Charger looks pretty much close to the early-mid 70's version.

^This.

The new Camaro looks like crap.

/'69 Camaro facepalms

That is the most boring concept car I've ever seen. How can you come out bragging about a concept car looking smoking hot when it's generic at best?

flagrante: What I think of when the words Hot and Auto Show appear in the same sentence.

[www.strangevehicles.com image 502x712]

/you're welcome

What I think of when the words "smokin", "hot", and "Ford" appear in the same sentence







/hot like Jill

wambu: Farkin'round: Especially the new Camaro. The body style just sucks, however; the Dodge Charger looks pretty much close to the early-mid 70's version.

^This.

The new Camaro looks like crap.

/'69 Camaro facepalms

aww, I like the new Camaro

/doesn't look as good as the '69
//better car though and a lot of fun to drive especially with the standard 6-speed