All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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Well, call me crazy, but the all new ford range http://media.drive.com.au/?rid=35661
looks a little inspired, perhaps by a Liberty.
No, not totally, but looking at the lights both front and back they seem to be a move away from the older, incredibly uglier B series. This is very prominent i believe in the base model.

/myopinon

anyway, see if anyone else agrees.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/Eskibagh/Falcon.jpg
Falcon
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/Eskibagh/subaruliberty4thgenerationsedan.jpg
GenIV Liberty

Not the best pics to compare, but still, i think theres a similarity

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Re: All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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yea, looks very similar. good pickup.

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Re: All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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do you blame them?

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Re: All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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I don't think i would ever buy a Falcon or Commodore.

But at least with the number of these vehicles on the road, esp due to fleet, the road won't be quite as ugly.

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Mods: Lost one hubcap going through floodwater NOW 14" Subaru 8spoke Magz, free pink seatcovers (hey, they were FREE), Oil change, baby seat for ma BABY!, New CV shafts and new balljoints and I installed them all by ma self. NEW ADDITION: I reset the ECU and it made the errors and check engine light disappear, what I can't see, cant hurt me (or my car), did another oil and filter change

Re: All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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you seen the GMH Coupe 60 yet? I would have one of these in a heart beat
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=386043

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Re: All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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Yeah, seen. Not interested. They make a nice wallpaper, but in reality, it would not suit.

On a side note: Holden and Falcon have a very strange mentality along with many other manufacturers, they see an easy way to increase power is to increase capacity, and obviously it works, but where's the creativity. Take a formula one car for instance, the kW that they produce out of a 2.0L engine, someone put a little more thought into that.

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1995 Subaru Liberty GX AWD Shagin, I mean Station Wagon.
Mods: Lost one hubcap going through floodwater NOW 14" Subaru 8spoke Magz, free pink seatcovers (hey, they were FREE), Oil change, baby seat for ma BABY!, New CV shafts and new balljoints and I installed them all by ma self. NEW ADDITION: I reset the ECU and it made the errors and check engine light disappear, what I can't see, cant hurt me (or my car), did another oil and filter change

Re: All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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true, but we arent buying cars that have $500,000 engines in them are we

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$500,000 engines that last 2 weekends.

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Re: All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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Doesnt look a hell of a lot different to the last model BA.

At least the VE looks very different to the VZ.

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Re: All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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Hi,

Two newish cars that look similar? Shock horror.

Sorry to sound rude, but every time a new car comes out, of course it is going to look like another car, or at least one section of another car...

Cheers,
Nik

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Re: All New Ford, Liberty Inspired?

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Point taken, but the reference is that it look a little like a LIBERTY, and i thought if anyone, the members of this forum would find it more interesting that if it looked like any other model of car.

As for the F! engines, not the best practical example, but the idea that they put effort into making a limited size engine produce more power than by mean other than increasing capacity was the point.

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1995 Subaru Liberty GX AWD Shagin, I mean Station Wagon.
Mods: Lost one hubcap going through floodwater NOW 14" Subaru 8spoke Magz, free pink seatcovers (hey, they were FREE), Oil change, baby seat for ma BABY!, New CV shafts and new balljoints and I installed them all by ma self. NEW ADDITION: I reset the ECU and it made the errors and check engine light disappear, what I can't see, cant hurt me (or my car), did another oil and filter change

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