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21-06-2007, 12:43 PM
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I love the three quarter front angle. Very masculine and aggressive.
The back however seems all a bit unresolved and messy. Think they should have retained the Focus' distinctive high mounted tailights I reckon. Good find Martyvan
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21-06-2007, 01:23 PM
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Damn nice i tells ya.....i like i like.... iu think everything is going mondeo style hahahahaha
heck cant say i wouldnt mind. that next gen focus looks SWEET. pitty we wouldnt get it for another 2 years.
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21-06-2007, 01:35 PM
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But what is doing with that interior???
Gear shifts need to be on the floor mide mid way up the dash console. |
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21-06-2007, 01:57 PM
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thats the CMAX interior though...
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21-06-2007, 03:26 PM
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Now thats a focus, 10 times better than what we have at the moment. I hope that the interior is up to to par unlike the current and previous versions.
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21-06-2007, 03:44 PM
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Looks great, lets hope they can match the paint on the bumpers this around !
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21-06-2007, 03:52 PM
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I love the wheels but, thats about it
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21-06-2007, 03:56 PM
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looks like they cut the front half off the mondeo then the rear half off the holden VIVA!
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21-06-2007, 04:32 PM
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Spot on..thats exactly what I thought too...dont like the rear overhang
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21-06-2007, 04:47 PM
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21-06-2007, 05:07 PM
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HOTNESS!
Now if any thinks the Orion isn't going to look like the mondeo/focus then they are on something pretty hardcore.
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21-06-2007, 06:03 PM
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Yeah! Looks the goods! Thats whay i like about this new focus and the old - meatyness!!
The tail lights are shocker though.....too astra! The shot of the side from the front looks like an Alpha. Looks like they have chopped the roof a little too. Good move - there is almost too much head room in the current Focus - hopefully thay have dropped the seats a little too! Mondeo is ugly - this is more to my taste.
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21-06-2007, 06:06 PM
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I really like it but...Its too much of a mini-me Mondeo. If you didn't know any better you would think its a Mondeo hatch.
Unmistakably a Focus on the side view. Its missing the long and high tail and indicator light cluster. I really like this in the Focus. Its a fundamental Focusness missing. Now the back is like every other hatchback. :-/ Overall though, a stunning design. I really like it. Muscular, purposeful, subtle but likeable menacing face. Will be saving my pennies. |
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21-06-2007, 06:09 PM
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21-06-2007, 06:10 PM
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I am yet to see one pic of the Mondeo that looks the goods? Please show me one?!?!?
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21-06-2007, 06:15 PM
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I mean look at this thing?!?!? 1995 we had cars that looked like this for christ sake!
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21-06-2007, 06:56 PM
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I like it.
It looks like a Ford. Just like the new generation of Mazda's look like Mazda's. I hope Orion has some of those strong styling cues. |
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21-06-2007, 07:27 PM
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If only they could integrate the "Focus Rear Lights" |
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21-06-2007, 09:35 PM
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i really like it... reading the article it's a shame the ST diesel variant will be so limited.
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21-06-2007, 10:00 PM
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I can't beleive that ford are actually starting to make some really good looking cars as a result of a "design theme"!
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21-06-2007, 10:08 PM
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You mad, bro?
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that is SEX...pure SEX (next to my cougar
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21-06-2007, 11:05 PM
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24-06-2007, 02:06 PM
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I am keen to get my hands on one of these Focus if it comes out looking like that. A diesel ST would be the one to go for. However not liking the interior pic from the S-MAX. I don't like the high gear shift placement.
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24-06-2007, 02:33 PM
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Its sexy.
I want it now. |
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24-06-2007, 11:00 PM
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25-06-2007, 07:21 AM
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WTF it looks just like the Mondeo, and a damn sight better than the current Focus  :
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25-06-2007, 08:22 AM
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they are better pics, but still not to my taste. Sorry folks - just personnel taste.
I dont like the bonnet - comes to a point - very alpha and i dont like alpha's The mid top section just looks like the current focus - i thought this is meant to be a totally 'new' design. Also with the new tuch up focus arriving in OZ in a few months - there will be a sedan version - which looks like this - to me the Mondeo and Focus look to alike - if given the choice I would take the focus because it looks the more aggressive of the two. The mondeo just looks a little to princy to me. Also what is with those rims?!?!? WE HAVE SEEN THEN ALREADY!! The current Focus XR5 and the Astra Turbo?!?! 'New' i think not! What i do like is the doors - i love the flared line down the side! Great!
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25-06-2007, 06:06 PM
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both cars look hot, they will do really well once they are here, whens the Mondeo comin?
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25-06-2007, 06:29 PM
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Mondeo is coming late 2007. Looking to pick mine up around christmas time.
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Next Gen Focus... Styled Like Mondeo...
In the report 
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