It doesn't necessarily follow that you have to purchase the rights to the Falcon name. Remember, there's a company in China making 'box' Cherokees still.
So maybe someone could buy the stamp dies, then build a replica (so to speak) but not call it the Falcon. Or even just sell 'bodies in white' as a 'replacement part' similar to the way Dynacorn is building Mustang etc body shells. http://dynacornbodies.com/
Sell a 'body in white' then the owner can build whatever they want from that.
Curmudgeon wrote: So maybe someone could buy the stamp dies, then build a replica (so to speak) but not call it the Falcon. Or even just sell 'bodies in white' as a 'replacement part' similar to the way Dynacorn is building Mustang etc body shells. http://dynacornbodies.com/
Yes that's more along the lines of what I was thinking.
mad_machine wrote:Knurled wrote: Remember the year that they renamed the Taurus "Five Hundred"? At least they wisely went back to the old name this time.Ford has always had this sick facination with naming their cars with the letter "f" in beginning. Focus, Five Hundred, Falcon, Fairmont, Fusion, F150, etcetc. Usually it works, sometimes it backfires (five hundred) and most of the time people never notice
You mean like chevrolet did with the Corvair, Corvette, Chevelle, Camaro, Cx trucks, Chevette, etc.... 
Knurled, the 500(05-07) was a different car(on the s80 chassis) than the taurus(86-07), but ended up being renamed the taurus in 2008. So you have it the wrong way around. 
DirtyBird222 wrote: Sad what is going to be their tube framed variant for the V8 Supercars series? A fusion?
Did you watch the Aussie V8 Supercars this last weekend?
There was no where near the tubing I was expecting. Lots of factory sheetmetal and except for roll cages nary a tube in sight.
I was expecting COT, but that wasn't it at all.
mad_machine wrote: Ford has always had this sick facination with naming their cars with the letter "f" in beginning. Focus, Five Hundred, Falcon, Fairmont, Fusion, F150, etcetc.
Yeah, like Mustang, Torino, Maverick, Pinto, LTD, Granada, Galaxie, Cortina, Capri, Mondeo, Escort, Crown Victoria, etcetc.
Chris_V wrote:mad_machine wrote: Ford has always had this sick facination with naming their cars with the letter "f" in beginning. Focus, Five Hundred, Falcon, Fairmont, Fusion, F150, etcetc.Yeah, like Mustang, Torino, Maverick, Pinto, LTD, Granada, Galaxie, Cortina, Capri, Mondeo, Escort, Crown Victoria, etcetc.
Ford has recently had a nomenclature system that tries to stick with "F" names. The exceptions I can think of are Escursion, Escape, and Transit, but those are not cars.
the trucks are the "e" names. Blame the Explorer.
In reply to mtn:
No love for the Taurus?
Appleseed wrote: So...I guess Holden won?
And the whole world cheered!
Tickford?
Balls.
I love that big inline six with a turbo or two.
Ford is going to move Fiesta's out of Mexico to Thailand.
The Mexico plant will be used for other manufacturing.
Maybe for Australian cars.
I just remembered....no more maloo
Maloo is a Holden, the Ford Ute is the XR6 or XR8
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aussiesmg wrote: Maloo is a Holden, the Ford Ute is the XR6 or XR8
Thank you. I feel a little better.
Holden's response to the whole thing:
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/05/25/holden-vows-to-stay-the-course-in-australia-despite-ford-exit/
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