The hardtop featured an oval window on the C-pillar, resembling older Thunderbirds.įor the interior, Ford tried for several years to find the materials which would suit best for the car. With a sloped silhouette, which started taller on the front fenders and descended toward the rear, the convertible inspired the old-style design theme, but in a modern interpretation. The retro-design style could have been seen on the front fascia, with its big and round headlights and the flat, chromed grille with square-grid mesh. The design was inspired by the first-generation of the T-Bird. When it unveiled it, the whole market was enthusiastic, but that enthusiasm didn't last long, and the T-Bird sunk with slow sales. It was based on the same platform as the Jaguar XF or the Lincoln LS. And unlike the contemporary LX cars, this OG SRT's exterior styling hasn't aged well.With its retro-design look and modern features, the 2001 Thunderbird should have been a blast from the past and revive the brand name, but it was a flop.įord launched the eleventh generation of the Thunderbird in 1999 as a 2001 model-year. Even if this were absent of garish or overdone mods, I can't do the WK's Tupperware interior. I'd either hold out for the latter or save more still for a MCI WK2. 2ACL HIs asking price is at the junction of low-mileage WKs and middle-mileage, pre-MCI WK2s.Tassos More lowbrow Redneck-Hillbilly fare.Ask me if I care.JK I was at Superbowl (?Big Game?) party in Wyoming and after an EV commercial, a person yelled, "Electric vehicles suck!" The person in question knows little to nothing about EV or ICE powertrains, but she's from Wyoming and she knows that her team doesn't like EVs.Magically, in 5ish years, once the economics are aligned for her, she will forget all of her angry opposition and happily own an EV.So you get the worst smallish cuv AND 80 % 3RD WORLD CONTENT. Redapple2 EvillGM = Motors Liquidation: I love it.PS- Just looked at a GMC Terrain on dealer lot.Golden2husky Tim, "Hellcat replica wheels".don't you mean HELLCAT replica wheels?.Mom sold the Electra to pay for funeral expenses and got herself a brand new 86 Regal, which was the last car she ever owned.
He wanted a Fleetwood Brougham like his buddy across the street. He was strictly a yahoo when it came to cars, "Buy American" till he dropped. He kept that car (and Mom got herself a 71 Caprice) until he died in 1985. I picked it out - I liked the color and the fact that it had dual 6-way power seats. He got a nice tax check back and then - drunk as a skunk, bless him, he took yours truly to a cockfight, a speakeasy and then to a Buick dealer where he got the last car he'd ever own, a burnt yellow 1975 Buick Electra Limited Coupe, loaded. Dad got a 66 Chevy Impala coupe just to get him back and forth to work until he decided what else to buy. Some neighborhood boys found her wrapped around a pole during a rainstorm about five blocks from our house, bruised up but okay. My mom wrecked that one - she knew squat about engines and thought she could handle this one like she could the first Charger. He replaced that with a 70 Charger R/T Magnum that he kept for a couple of years. He had the charred hulk towed home with hopes of repairing it, but like the salvage of the Normandie turned turtle at her pier, the money and effort would not have been worth it. He got out about a minute or so before the car became engulfed in flames. Several cars honked at him as he pulled over, "Hey, dude, your trunk is on fire. Dad's Charger was a nice one (383 4bbl), but rather short-lived in 1974, he dropped a cigarette into the trunk while on a fishing trip, and he forgot about it until he was on I-95 when he smelled smoke.
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