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Originally Posted by jpd80
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Good for you. Just because you want a global facsimile, doesn't mean everyone else does. I for one wish for the Falcon to maintain its own styling identity. All this global convergence is a w4nk and grafting a corporate face onto every platform is lazy, unimaginative and sucks the character from the vehicle . Look at the Boulay-era Mitsubishis and how that turned out; and look how globalisation has blunted the Focus.
If we have a local product that looks, feels and drives like another car developed and made elsewhere,then whats the point in spending R&D and making it here?
As for the thread title, I think VE and FG are each successes in their own right. I would like to see Falcon evolve into an edgier design though, that would definately revive the marque and draw young people in.
When I was 8 years old and first saw the AU, it captured my imagination, and proved that a prosaic formula ( straight 6, RWD) needn't be wrapped in predictable clothes. The wheels YDOTY competition that Nick Hogios won (design 2010 Falcon) only further captivated me, and every subsequent Falcon has been conservative ( if succesful and handsome). If the Falcon sees some kind of revival, it won't be because of One Ford.