Body Restyling based on late-models

[Johnny K.]

So. I am a Ford guy at heart, and in my opinion they made the right move by reintoducing the 2002 thunderbird to ressemble a ’57 t-bird. and then again following up with the 2005 mustang to ressemble the late 60’s body style. I really thought Mopar was going to follow the market when they announced the charger, only to have it be a weak 4-door bodystyle, probably an old concept body, with the charger badges, thank god they corrected themselves with the challenger. then Chevrolet, after realizing the mistake they made cancling the camaro, announced the re-release, and in itself looks like an awesome body, but I personally expected it, and hoped it would have ressembled a late 70’s bodystyle myself. the modern musclecar is a big theme lately from adding early-model blocks with highly computerized fuel injection systems, to just having big chrome “import” looking rims on them. Just curious if fords way of design actually produced good sales numbers for them vs. the 4-door charger, and what everybody else thinks on the concept of revised late-model bodystyles on new vehicles. bringing back that certain style that set manufactuers apart in the 60’s through the 80’s before everything started to look the same. Should the big 3 do more late-model bodystyles? whats your take? P.S. I forgot to acknowledge GM’s attempt at the GTO…. nice engineering, months spent on tuning the exhaust to have that good ol’ muscle car sound without effecting emissions/economy but throw it in a sad looking concept body from 2 yrs prior to announcement.

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[John B Kobberstad]

This should be posted in a discussion forum not a service and repair forum.

[Coty Miller]

The new mustangs and camaros look awesome, I also applaud Chrysler by offering AWD on the challenger, I realize that it isn’t a muscle car blah blah blah, but there is allot of power there and to be honest it’s nice to use it for something other than burning tires.

Here in my part of ohio I’d say that the new stang has generated lots of sales especially from our economy picking up from the new gas and oil surge here…

And yes I would encourage them to rethink and turn back the clocks on their pickups, The heck are they thinking with those international sized f-150!? And no manual trans either? I want to see the old f100 styles make a comeback…

Loving the new focuses and fiestas though, Don’t want to see those going back to looking like pintos xD

[Matthew]

I have to chime in on this one. I gotta say i HATE the new style as the 2006 MY came ou its all yuck all cars look boxey now they have no style at all. the Mustang aint a stang anymore aint been since the 60s. Corvette aint corvette anymore all modern cars are ugly seems only the imports have any style.

[Johnny K.]

that statement is rather byist in my opinion, a majority of late 90’s to early 2000’s body stylings were influenced by “imported” cars. can’t tell me that a 4 door civic looks any different from any other 4 door sedan. I do agree with the loss of class in styling since the late 60’s and even into the very early 70’s. but the 05-07 mustangs are not that far off from their late 60’s bodystyle. with a modern spin of coarse. I was not really looking for a Domestic / foreign war. just opinions of the change in stylings from past to present.

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