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Old 16-11-2014, 11:50 AM   #1
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http://www.carscoops.com/2014/11/fut...ssie-ford.html

Just come across this and thought what would people on here think of it ?
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Old 16-11-2014, 12:12 PM   #2
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Wow... that is a beautifully rendered coupe concept!

Would be nice to see in the flesh, but will probably not happen :(

Damn... those proportions are just spot on IMO...
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Old 16-11-2014, 12:16 PM   #3
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Rubbish. So they have taken a Mustang and added a few Falcon features and suddenly it's a Falcon coupe. Utter garbage.
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Old 16-11-2014, 12:21 PM   #4
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Looks like an Aston Martin
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Old 16-11-2014, 12:25 PM   #5
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That's a nice looking car regardless of it's origins.
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Old 16-11-2014, 12:30 PM   #6
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It will never happen simply because it won't make money.
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It's pretty amusing though, considering the XR8 next year will be reborn with the same spec engine as the FG GT, could you imagine being a HSV owner forking out all that money on a brand new GTS, then pulling up to the lights next to a FH XR8 and then sitting side by side all the way to 100 and beyond
Even more embarrasing would be the lower spec variants of the VF in HSV's stable getting whopped by a factory XR8.
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Old 16-11-2014, 12:32 PM   #7
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Looks good but I can't see much of a link to a falcon hardtop. Maybe needs a concave rear window and fatter rear quarters
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Old 16-11-2014, 01:06 PM   #8
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Don't read the fgx thread ?
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Old 16-11-2014, 01:23 PM   #9
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my son just looked at that pic and said that's one nice looking mustang
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It's a Mustang with different lights and grill.
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It looks better than the mustang much like the xa/xb gt coupe looked better than the Mach 1
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Old 16-11-2014, 03:02 PM   #12
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Looks good. Regardless of whether or not it would be built (I mean who really cares?), it is nice to have concept drawings. These drawings are done all the time by designers in their own time or by up and coming designers. I encourage more of it.
Sure it is uses a Mustang as a platform (with changes to the front and rear) but is that a bad thing? Mustang has a drop dead gorgeous silhouette.
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Old 16-11-2014, 03:10 PM   #13
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I'm thinking Ford should just put "FALCON" badging on Mustangs it exports to Australia. Problem solved. It probably wouldn't cost more than $5 per car.
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Looks good. Regardless of whether or not it would be built (I mean who really cares?), it is nice to have concept drawings. These drawings are done all the time by designers in their own time or by up and coming designers. I encourage more of it.
Sure it is uses a Mustang as the platform but is that a bad thing? Mustang has a drop dead gorgeous silhouette.
No, it doesn't use a Mustang platform; it IS a Mustang with Falcon badging Photoshopped on it.
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No, it doesn't use a Mustang platform; it IS a Mustang with Falcon badging Photoshopped on it.
kind of what i was referring to but using another word.
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I'm thinking Ford should just put "FALCON" badging on Mustangs it exports to Australia. Problem solved. It probably wouldn't cost more than $5 per car.
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Falcon gt badging. The yanks won't have any of that though, precious bunch of fat tossers. It'd basically be a reverse VF SS to usa type thing
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Falcon gt badging. The yanks won't have any of that though, precious bunch of fat tossers. It'd basically be a reverse VF SS to usa type thing
I prefer to think that Ford won't be as insulting of the Australian intelligence as GM is of the US intelligence.
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I wish the Mustang looked like that... It is very very nice...
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Old 16-11-2014, 03:46 PM   #19
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That's a nice looking car regardless of it's origins.
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Old 16-11-2014, 04:32 PM   #20
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No rust around the rear window, taillight panel and firewall. No thanks.
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I'm thinking Ford should just put "FALCON" badging on Mustangs it exports to Australia. Problem solved. It probably wouldn't cost more than $5 per car.
ummm why? the Falcon name is cactus in Aus now... besides a few old time ford diehards.
Mustang is an icon.
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They should've put a Lincoln badge on it! I don't mind it, probably a bit more differentiation from the 'Stang would've made this rendering more creditable.

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Old 17-11-2014, 09:55 AM   #23
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I'm thinking Ford should just put "FALCON" badging on Mustangs it exports to Australia. Problem solved. It probably wouldn't cost more than $5 per car.
Hmm, given how many Commodores are getting around with Chev badges on them, there might be a market for someone to make Falcon badges that can be swapped onto the Mustang's mounting points...

BRB, I'm off to the patent office!
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In a design sense, resurrection of such a concept would follow in Ford’s current styling ethos and embrace elements from the Falcon’s illustrious past. Inspiration is heavily borrowed from the XA/XB Falcon coupe of the 70’s, with its circular headlight lenses, flared up rear haunches and roofline profile.
Only to those who have never seen an XA/XB coupe perhaps...
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Very well done image!


Can't say it really works for me though. Something about the proportions just isn't quite doing it for me. I see potential though!


I think I'd rather a new Mustang.
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Can't stand Fords obsession with that grill design... That's enough to stop me buying a new Ford unfortunately.
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I think the proportions around the back could have been better - when I get some time I'll alter it a wee bit. The back was just a rough sketch I whipped up in 15mins.
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Looks good but I can't see much of a link to a falcon hardtop. Maybe needs a concave rear window and fatter rear quarters
Its got two doors...that's enough. Not everything needs to hark back to one specific model, it not a full retro design...
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I think the proportions around the back could have been better - when I get some time I'll alter it a wee bit. The back was just a rough sketch I whipped up in 15mins.
I think its how the FG-X should look! The rear is heaps better then the FG-X...
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