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Originally posted by svt4stv:
havent been really keeping up with the Fusion news but i just looked at Ford's site and it says the 3.0 V6 will come with a 6speed atx  is there really going to be no mtx version? (with the exception of a possible svt edition)
If you go through the "Build Your Own" at Ford.com, toward the end of the option selection process there is this:
Originally posted by ford.com:
Ford is considering the following features for future model years of the Fusion. These features will not be available for the 2006 Model Year. To help us gauge interest in these features, please select the options you would add to your Fusion if they were available at the listed price.
Manual Transmission with V6 Engine
So, let ye voices be heard me hardees....
Personally, it's gonna take an SVT version to tickle my berries....
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Originally posted by Rara:
Yeah, because you have such a great line on all the inside poop from Ford and SVT.
Anything you wanna tell us Rara? 
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Originally posted by Rara:
Originally posted by Stry-ped:
It's been discussed over and over Marky ma boy.
SVT HAS infact said they do have interest in an SVT version of Fusion.. so consider it pretty damn well plausible that by mid to end 2006... we'll be rollin' phat in our CSVT's little boy. 
If it does happen and they DO offer this car like they are talking... you can absolutly guarantee (sad, but true) my CSVT will be finding a new home. 
Yeah, because you have such a great line on all the inside poop from Ford and SVT.
It's been posted and said that Ford/SVT has expressed interest in the Fusion.
Here
Here
and I could post several more. Never said they WERE but when a company expresses interest... thats a step ahead. 
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Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Stock cars... The WWF of racing sports. All show & no real competition.
While I'm no fan of NASCAR, I respect the talent of the teams and drivers involved. Like any racing, it takes gobs of engineering, technical, and driving expertise to turn a "spec silhouette" into a winning combination. Optimizing a car/driver to hang it out over the edge lap after lap...there's nothing unreal about the competition, here.
Just bores me to tears, though, going round in circles for hours on end in what I consider boring cars. I'd much rather watch Grand Am Cup or SWC.
Function before fashion.
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RogerB, You should keep watching Grand Am Cup . . . its the best racing series out there  but I'm not biased or anything. And Chad, I was referring to your assumption of a time frame for such a car should it be produced. The Contour took 4 years before SVT released its version. The new Cobra/Shelby GT500 will be 2 (model) years. The last Lightning was 4 years after the intro of that body style truck as well. Heck, I work on the Fusion full time now, and I still don't know any more than you guys what SVT is planning for it, if anything.
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Yeah, I hear what you are saying.  . I'll change my speculation to.. "I Hope".
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Originally posted by Stry-ped:
It's been discussed over and over Marky ma boy.
SVT HAS infact said they do have interest in an SVT version of Fusion.. so consider it pretty damn well plausible that by mid to end 2006... we'll be rollin' phat in our CSVT's little boy.
If it does happen and they DO offer this car like they are talking... you can absolutly guarantee (sad, but true) my CSVT will be finding a new home.
Too bad it will probably end up being an auto too... That is, if it even happens.
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Originally posted by TheAlmightyMe:
Originally posted by Stry-ped:
It's been discussed over and over Marky ma boy.
SVT HAS infact said they do have interest in an SVT version of Fusion.. so consider it pretty damn well plausible that by mid to end 2006... we'll be rollin' phat in our CSVT's little boy.
If it does happen and they DO offer this car like they are talking... you can absolutly guarantee (sad, but true) my CSVT will be finding a new home.
Too bad it will probably end up being an auto too... That is, if it even happens.
I would (my opinion here) find it hard to belive SVT would produce this car to be completly opposite of MANY cars in it's class and have it as only an auto. IF they went the auto route... I could see some sort of tap shift being a part of the package. 
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Originally posted by Stry-ped:
Originally posted by TheAlmightyMe:
Originally posted by Stry-ped:
It's been discussed over and over Marky ma boy.
SVT HAS infact said they do have interest in an SVT version of Fusion.. so consider it pretty damn well plausible that by mid to end 2006... we'll be rollin' phat in our CSVT's little boy.
If it does happen and they DO offer this car like they are talking... you can absolutly guarantee (sad, but true) my CSVT will be finding a new home.
Too bad it will probably end up being an auto too... That is, if it even happens.
I would (my opinion here) find it hard to belive SVT would produce this car to be completly opposite of MANY cars in it's class and have it as only an auto. IF they went the auto route... I could see some sort of tap shift being a part of the package.
That is possible, I just have this nagging feeling that they are gonna screw it up somehow; i.e., the ATX. If SVT puts the ATX in the Fusion with paddle shift, that would be better. However, if they did such, I have the feeling, it would have a redundancy and still shift for you as you near readline...
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Originally posted by TheAlmightyMe:
Originally posted by Stry-ped:
Originally posted by TheAlmightyMe:
Originally posted by Stry-ped:
It's been discussed over and over Marky ma boy.
SVT HAS infact said they do have interest in an SVT version of Fusion.. so consider it pretty damn well plausible that by mid to end 2006... we'll be rollin' phat in our CSVT's little boy.
If it does happen and they DO offer this car like they are talking... you can absolutly guarantee (sad, but true) my CSVT will be finding a new home.
Too bad it will probably end up being an auto too... That is, if it even happens.
I would (my opinion here) find it hard to belive SVT would produce this car to be completly opposite of MANY cars in it's class and have it as only an auto. IF they went the auto route... I could see some sort of tap shift being a part of the package.
That is possible, I just have this nagging feeling that they are gonna screw it up somehow; i.e., the ATX. If SVT puts the ATX in the Fusion with paddle shift, that would be better. However, if they did such, I have the feeling, it would have a redundancy and still shift for you as you near readline...
That makes sense (unfortunatly))... but Pontiacs Tap Shift does not have that "safety" feature... which is nice. *HOPEFULLY* they will atleast follow that pattern.. bare-
minimum.
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