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12/2/08, 01:18 PM

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Mas35NYR

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I believe he meant tapered not tucked.

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12/2/08, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by rhumb

Good find. The '10 does come off as a somewhat ham-handed pastiche of various FoMoCo styling idioms that together, come off as a bit incongruous and clumsy, certainly lacking the design clarity of the '05.

Many of the elements, the hood bulge for example, look fine on their original platform (Intercepter Concept), but kind of gratuitous and too large. The rear end seems like the bastard child of the Iosis Concept and the Mustang Giugiaro Concept after a bit too much thalilomide.

None of it is horrible, not even the black diaper, that appears in need of a changing, drooping from the back end, but the overall effect seems to say design by committee rather than reflecting a clearer and more cohesive vision of a single designer.

I asked my friend @ Ford design, he said the back end was taken from one single sketch. There were many other rear end sketches done, but this was the only one they could do with carryover bumper beams and the structure underneath, and they even had to fight to make it look like this!

The trick of wrapping the lamps around the corners is a common practice to reduce the impression of overhang- the distance from the wheels to the end of the car. Audi does it very well. It was done on SN95 as well. Its called "adding plan view" ( plan is the architectural term for Top view. )

The 2005 didn't need it, but once they dropped IRS and went to SRA, the back end needed lengthend and they had already finished the tailamps, which they couldn't change. So one of the biggest goals for the 2010 was to find a way to wrap the lamps around the corner to reduce the extra length/distance between the rear wheel and the bumper/trunk area.