2013 Ford Fusion

[Sprint XR8]

This Is The 2013 Ford Fusion


We've still got a few days between us and the reveal of the 2013 Ford Fusion, but a minor bug in its iPad teaser app has given us an early glimpse of the all-new sedan.

As we showed you before, Ford enlisted the help of an interactive iPad app to count down the days until the Fusion's reveal. But today, an error with the app gave us a nice front-three-quarter view of Ford's new Camry-fighter, which has since been removed.

We're digging the low-slung stance, blacked-out Day Light Opening (greenhouse) and pixel-perfect wheel size, but it's the fascia that's easily the most handsome, combining elements of recent Ford concepts and polishing them up for production duty (along with a fair bit of Aston Martin in that grille). We'll be seeing much more in another three days, so stay tuned...

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/06/t...3-ford-fusion/

[Nikked]

As long as the platform alows FR drivetrain i'll be happy.

[Paxton]

Originally Posted by Nikked

As long as the platform alows FR drivetrain i'll be happy.

Fusion = Mondeo.

This is not a Falcon anything.

[jpd80]

A Falcon with that nose treatment would be a bold move, the next stepfor FG III?

[AWD Chaser]

Originally Posted by jpd80

A Falcon with that nose treatment would be a bold move, the next stepfor FG III?

Just swap the top and bottom grills and you just about have the FG2

[Buntz]

Originally Posted by jpd80

A Falcon with that nose treatment would be a bold move, the next stepfor FG III?

You mean FH?

I think that Falcon would go with something more of a rounded nose.

[Bossxr8]

Looks pretty good.

Detroit show starts on Monday.

[Buntz]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

Looks pretty good.

Detroit show starts on Monday.

BTW. Lincoln MKZ gets revealed then too. So we will see Max Wolff's take on that. Hopefully it's not like the other new stuff he's doing. 2013 MKS. Yuck.

Though judging by the back end... could be good.

(Max Wolff showing Derek Kuzak.)

[naddis01]

So is this what the next Mondeo is going to look like as well?

[Brazen]

God that looks great, imagine a full range of body styles and petrol/diesel engines.

Fords have the best global design of any other car company.

[Road_Warrior]

Originally Posted by Brazen

God that looks great, imagine a full range of body styles and petrol/diesel engines.

Fords have the best global design of any other car company.

I was reading something a few weeks back that said CD4 won't be available in a hatch. Or was it wagon? Either way, there was one less body type being available, I think it was the hatch.

PS the car looks great.

[jpd80]

CD4 Mondeo will arrive in 2013 and have different nose/tail but effectively it's the
same car with diesel options , hatchback and station wagon forms continuing.

[Joe5619]

Originally Posted by jpd80

CD4 Mondeo will arrive in 2013 and have different nose/tail but effectively it's the
same car with diesel options , hatchback and station wagon forms continuing.

Are you saying the Fusion & mondeo will look different?? That is news to me... & why would Ford borther to do that??

[Gobes32]

Originally Posted by Joe5619

Are you saying the Fusion & mondeo will look different?? That is news to me... & why would Ford borther to do that??

Same sheetmetal and maybe different bumpers and grills to suit local markets?

[jpd80]

Originally Posted by Joe5619

Are you saying the Fusion & mondeo will look different?? That is news to me... & why would Ford borther to do that??

Fusion is sedan only, Mondeo will be basically the same car but with slightly different nose/ tail details
for Euro markets, most of the work is shifting 5-door hatch and station wagon onto the new styling
and implementing changes to electrical and mechanical systems, possible Plug In Hybrid Mondeo......

Fusion/Mondeo will look very similar, who will want FGII when they see the new global pair....

[nstg8a]

if mondeo is gonna look like that it should do well...

[DJM83]

I like it.

[Road_Warrior]

Well Euro market buyers might not want their car looking like a yank car...different tastes and all that...

[Falc'man]

Geez I'm really going to miss the frazzled eyes of the current one.

[nstg8a]

its like a futuristic take on lancer...

[Bossxr8]

Would he have enough time to add much to it though, he's only been in the job, what 6 months?

Wouldn't give him much time to change anything.

[Buntz]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

Would he have enough time to add much to it though, he's only been in the job, what 6 months?

Wouldn't give him much time to change anything.

Hopefully he plans to change it all. Start afresh.

[Bossxr8]

He'll get that chance but it will take a few years before it all starts to flow through because of the lead times.

[Buntz]

Have you seen the 2013 MKS? It's better but still bad.

[jpd80]

[janddbone]

The thing I find funny about EUCD, particularly as they are using it going forward, is the fact that Ford sold Volvo. They had done all the hard work and arguably had Volvo in a better position, platform wise, than Ford/Lincoln. I agreed with them selling all their other divisions, and closing Mercury; the platforms where a mess with no way forward or had limited sales potential.

However I truly feel that Volvo was one step to far... The hard work was done, and the extra contribution the Volvo sales made to platform and tech r&d, would have been easy money. (Overall.) Half a million sales would be easy going forward.

[fou_bleu]

Originally Posted by brett.r.johnstone

The thing I find funny about EUCD, particularly as they are using it going forward, is the fact that Ford sold Volvo. They had done all the hard work and arguably had Volvo in a better position, platform wise, than Ford/Lincoln. I agreed with them selling all their other divisions, and closing Mercury; the platforms where a mess with no way forward or had limited sales potential.

However I truly feel that Volvo was one step to far... The hard work was done, and the extra contribution the Volvo sales made to platform and tech r&d, would have been easy money. (Overall.) Half a million sales would be easy going forward.

Interesting thinking you have there Brett and I can honestly see where you are coming from a short- to mid-term business sense and do agree.

However, with the debt that FoMoCo had at the time, the money generated from the Volvo sale was greater than what Lincoln would have ever been worth and with the replacement of the intermediate Mercury division with the Titanium trim level and the separation of Lincoln into almost it's own company, I think FoMoCo took the better overall long-term choice rather than try to play with Merc/Linc. for another 5 years, wasting money (they don't have) in the meantime.

Now, take what I have just said, reverse it, and you have what GM is still doing -_-

[Wretched]

hmmm that pic...a lot of Lancer to me.
Will wait for more though to form a better opinion.

[Dave R]

[jpd80]