![]() |
|
Welcome to the Australian Ford Forums forum. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and inserts advertising. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features without post based advertising banners. Registration is simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. Please Note: All new registrations go through a manual approval queue to keep spammers out. This is checked twice each day so there will be a delay before your registration is activated. |
|
The Pub For General Automotive Related Talk |
View Poll Results: Should Ford replace the XR front bar with the original (rejected) design come FGMKII? | |||
Kill it, it’s hideous. Why tamper with perfection. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
40 | 59.70% |
Bring it on; let them know a Coyote XR is on the prowl. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
13 | 19.40% |
Looks like a good design for an FPV GS |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
10 | 14.93% |
Other (Please Explain) |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
4 | 5.97% |
Voters: 67. You may not vote on this poll |
![]() |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
![]() |
#1 | ||
Guess Who's Back?
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 1,369
|
1. Kill it, it’s hideous. Why tamper with perfection.
![]() 2. Bring it on; let them know a Coyote is on the prowl. ![]() 3. Looks like a good FPV GS to me. ![]() 4. Other (Please Explain) Special thanks to Peuty for the eagle eyed photography
__________________
The 18th Letter |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#2 | ||
Rob
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Woodcroft S.A.
Posts: 21,557
|
kill it. the one we have now is way more integrated. doesn't look like an afterthought.
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
#3 | ||
Clevo Mafia Inc.
![]() Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 10,496
|
In the donor thread the general consensus was this is an old design that never made it.
That being the case the poll is moot, killing something that never lived. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#4 | ||
Lucifer's Angel
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Sydney
Posts: 5,282
|
I'm not a fan either...
__________________
![]() ![]() Blueprint, manual, 4490's, Redback 2.5" dual exhaust, BA Typhoon rims, tint, fog light covers, BF tailights, blue illuminated window switches, Ghia bootlid carpet, lower grille, FPV door spears, steering wheel & interior bits, XR6T + F6 intake, K&N filter, Typhoon spoiler, tuned, sway bars, custom angel eyes & plates..YUM!
If there's one thing guys in Holdens hate more than being beaten by a Ford... It's being beaten by a girl driving a Ford ![]() |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#5 | ||
I ♥ EDM
![]() Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5,142
|
I'd have to say it would be a great way to differentiate the GS from other models. Perfect placement for it.
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
#6 | |||
You dig, we stick!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 7,461
|
I voted "other".
Quote:
That's why it never made it; it was awfully fuglicious. The current XR's "eyebrows" which envelop the fog lights are a master stroke.
__________________
"....You don't put the car through engineering" - Rod Barrett. |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
#7 | ||
Ford Power To The People
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 242
|
Stick with what we got is what I think. The fog lights repositioned in the second and third pix look like there out of position for my liking.
Also can someone please tell me the size of the rims on the first pix of the nitro blue XR8. I really like them, but I thought they where designated for the XR6. I usually see the 5 star rims (which I like also) on the FG XR8's. What the go there ? What are the standard rims and what is optional ? |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#8 | ||
FPV GTR
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: South Island High Country
Posts: 2,355
|
Kill it. The Fog lights dont fit at all. I like the front bar, looks like an angry snake. However side on the front looks chubby and over hangs to much. I want a front bar with an insert around the bottom grille (like the old typhoons), split it up alittle.
__________________
- FPV GT RSpec - - Chill SZ Territory Titanium -
The Family Bus - Veridian Green PJ Ranger XLT - The Work Truck |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#9 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,395
|
Quote:
|
|||
![]() |
![]() |
#10 | |||
Peter Car
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: geelong
Posts: 23,145
|
Quote:
|
|||
![]() |
![]() |
#11 | ||
Now Fordless
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Fremantle, WA
Posts: 3,611
|
That failed front bar needs to be melted down into a ball and thrown at whoever designed it.
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
#12 | |||
335 - STILL THE BOSS ...
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melb East
Posts: 11,421
|
Quote:
| [/url] |
__________________
'73 Landau - 10.82 @ 131mph '11 FG GT335 - 12.43 @ 116mph '95 XG ute - 3 minutes, 21.14 @ 64mph 101,436 MEMBERS ......... 101,436 OPINIONS ..... What could possibly go wrong! Clevo Mafia [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
#13 | ||
LIKE A BOSS 351
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Gold Coast
Posts: 2,779
|
I love it!!! Love love love it. Far better than the current FG and God I wish this was the pick in the first place.
If the coin was flipped and this phantom mule was the design Ford went for 18months ago and we grew to embrace it, if people would still think that the car 2nd and 3rd pictures was a disgusting beast that needed to be disposed? |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#14 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cattai, Sydney
Posts: 7,701
|
![]() That is awesome! I love it
__________________
1992 EBII Fairmont Ghia 4.0l <---Click for the Gallery! Insta@mooneye_ghia White on bright red smoothies with thick whitewalls. Cruising around to some rockabilly |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#15 | ||
Bear with a sore head
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Adelaide
Posts: 3,701
|
Current one looks the best IMO.
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
#16 | ||
Mad Scientist!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 2,840
|
I'm sure i remember reading, that before the FG was released it was showed to the public and they disapproved of the front fog lamps position. It wouldn't surprise me if this was the iniatial design that got shafted!
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
#17 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 14,654
|
"Still born" comes to mind.. as others have said, you cant kill what never lived.
__________________
335 S/C GT: The new KING of Australian made performance cars.. ![]() |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#18 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 609
|
I heard that they are going to use that bumber on the next model and also add some styling ques from HSV as below:
![]() Last edited by steve.zissou; 29-04-2014 at 05:39 PM. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#19 | ||
Thailand Specials
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Centrefold Lounge
Posts: 49,116
|
Dont fix what aint broke, keep the same one as we got now, that front bar reminds me of the EL GT.
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
#20 | ||
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: SA
Posts: 5,213
|
Neither are attractive to me.Looks to of hit every branch on the ugly tree on the way down.I dont know why they think showing off a air conditioner condenser is considered good looks,or is it?
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
#21 | |||
Back to Le Frenchy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Back home.....
Posts: 13,346
|
I know it's been said before, many times actually, but it hasn't been said in big bold letters yet.
The front bar above is not the FG mkII front bar, it is the original FG mkI bar that was scrapped in favour of what we actually got. There, maybe that will clear things up.
__________________
Quote:
07 Renault Sport Megane F1 Team R26 #1397
|
|||
![]() |
![]() |
#22 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 14,654
|
Lock it.....
__________________
335 S/C GT: The new KING of Australian made performance cars.. ![]() |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#23 | |||
Afterburner + skids =
![]() Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Skidsville
Posts: 12,122
|
Quote:
__________________
Speed Kills. So buy an AU XR8 and live forever. Oo\===/oO |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
#24 | ||||
Back to Le Frenchy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Back home.....
Posts: 13,346
|
Quote:
__________________
Quote:
07 Renault Sport Megane F1 Team R26 #1397
|
||||
![]() |
![]() |
#25 | ||
Afterburner + skids =
![]() Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Skidsville
Posts: 12,122
|
For the record, I never said this was the FG MKII design in my original thread, just in case people are getting confused.
__________________
Speed Kills. So buy an AU XR8 and live forever. Oo\===/oO |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#26 | ||
Youth worker
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ipswich QLD
Posts: 6,879
|
Theres a great reason why the scrapped bar was done away with. It looks crappola!
I voted stay with the current one, but maybe a subtle adjustment wouldnt be a bad idea!
__________________
2007 FPV F6 Typhoon BFII, Neo. Build Number 325 2011 SZ Territory Typhoon Thread: Mr Brooksy's BFII Typhoon Territory Thread: Mrs Brooksy's SZ Territory Resurrection Old Futura thread:
Brooksy's Ex Build |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#27 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 727
|
Quote:
Needs colouring and bigger letters |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
#28 | |||
Regular Schmuck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 5,640
|
Quote:
![]() THANKS!!!! NOW I CAN READ IT. |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
#29 | ||
BA Xr8
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NZ
Posts: 917
|
![]() ![]() |
||
![]() |
![]() |
#30 | ||||
Back to Le Frenchy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Back home.....
Posts: 13,346
|
Quote:
__________________
Quote:
07 Renault Sport Megane F1 Team R26 #1397
|
||||
![]() |