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Originally Posted by Brazen
I take the opinion of Ford's head of marketing and the great grand-daughter of Henry Ford himself very seriously... oh and the small fact that she is American and is commenting on American tastes... but hey what would she know? Of course FG is not progressive, its so predictable its not funny. Look at XF to EA, then EL to AU then BFII to BF..sorry FG... Ford went way too mainstream on this 'all new' model. The FG should of been the Ford version of the Jaguar XF. Modern, contemporary, attractive, and distinctive. Instead we got some BF/Kia/Toyota from the 90s hybrid.
Ford AU is very risk averse, and is getting slaughtered in the marketplace. For goodness sake, the biggest buyers of Falcons are churn-and-burn rental fleets and they will buy anything.
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You take her opinion seriously because she is the great-granddaughter of a pioneer of the car industry? Really?
How can you go "way too mainstream" on an Australian family sedan? You expect massive sales numbers in Australia with a design resembling the Jaguar XF?
The point of the FG's design
is to be as mainstream as possible, they can't afford to polarise people on their designs right now. Tell me, if somebody handed you 500 million dollars and you had to pick between a horse with running odds at 5-1 or another at 50-1 which would you go for? Ford already picked the latter once (with a larger sum of money) with the AU and we all know how well that worked.
Exactly how does the FG look like a "BF/Kia/Toyota from the 90s hybrid"? If you think the FG looks like a car from the 90s (let alone a Kia?!) you definitely need to see an optometrist.