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Where did you get that? I've never seen it before, it certainly ain't out in the UK nor is it close to coming out cos the magazines would know about it!

Does look totally like an A6 though, and the current Mondeo looks like a Passat :rolleyes:

"I hope it finds its way over here"

For one thing, this is not Euro Ford, it's going to be designed along with the cross trainer SUV wagon here in the US.

Also, all the "looks like" comments happen when a new car, especially a Ford, comes out. When Contours were new, it was "looks like a Taurus/Escort."

Can you fix the awful A6 bloated styling before it gets to the public?

My suggestions:

1) Trim up the nose... it's too tall and too upright. Shorten and cats-eye the lights some, shorten the grille, and mold the hood to have some shape.

2) Get rid of the chrome around the greenhouse. Looks gaudy.

3) Though I can't really see them, the taillights appear to be badly positioned vertically into the rear end. It looks like there will be too much sheet metal between the horizontal trunk element and the light. The taillights need to make the space appear full.

4) Give the car more visual variety. Give it some more muted edges and contours. The car is too many blank expanses of metal as it sits.

5) Most importantly, get rid of the grotesque faux-A6 rear quarter window and C-pillar. Edge the rear door and roofline more (make the roof and the rear window visually separate elements), put in a smaller rear quarter window, then the C-pillar, then fill in the rest of the space with flowing glass from the rear window (which would wrap around and be part of the side and rear views.)

This car just looks too much like the hideous designs VW/Audi have done lately. Or more aptly, it looks like the 90's Oldsmobile 88 squeezed to a shorter length. Be original, and show some taste and aesthetics while you're at it.

im right there be side u mike, although i wouldnt be able to aford it i would like to have a car, that i can look forward in buying.

all my friend make fun of me cause i drive a ford. well once teh body kit was put on there they were like where did u get that thing. I educated them aboutthe contour svt. so now i need st.

or soemting similar to a contour. i really dont like the focus dont like the front. but the zx3/svt rear end kiks ass