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With the '69 Citröen ID19 carrying the French to victory over their British rivals in the
PCH Superpower Rematch, I can see we'll need to have some more elimination rounds to see whether France or Britain shall
be crushed beneath the weight of proudly display the oil-spraying, parts-shedding PCH Superpower Trophy. Today's challenge, however, is a return to a fine PCH tradition with no nationalistic overtones: Two-For-One Hell Projects!
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If you are one of the proud members of the FoMoCo tribe, or know you'll be having to buy yourself a new pickup truck sometime near the end of next year, then you may be interested in knowing exactly that. The always Ford friendly and usually ESL-tastic
Igor Holas has all the answers you'll need over at
AutoSavant and with a sub-headline like "Ford is getting ready to trump all competition again," you certainly know it won't be subjective. OK, it's totally the most biased piece of writing on earth — but would we expect anything less from a true believer? Anyway, the big question of what it'll look like supposedly can be answered by staring at a picture of the 2006 Ford Super Chief concept and then slowly let your eyes relax. Yeah, all we can see is a schooner too. [
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Just look at that handsome lump of bulging, muscular Americana (on the right). You know the story by now. The Interceptor is a four-door Mustang (no matter what Ford says and then denies). Which means it's a rear wheel drive sedan powered by a torquey V8. We like this fact so much that us bothering to explain why is a waste of our collective breath. We also enjoy the aggressive, battering ram design, even though the big Ford 4-door looks a little too much like last year's
Super Chief Mega-Truck. Looks? Why are we talking about looks? FoMoCo — can you drop the
TwinForce Turbo in this sucker and paint it black? Oh screw it; we want our 500hp Supercharged Shelby Interceptor and we want it now. With the stripes.
– Jonny Lieberman
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"NEEEEON KNIIIIIIIGHTS! NEON KNIIIIIIAAAI-IIAGHTS!" Okay, now that we've got that out of our system, we thought we'd mutter a bit about Plexineon, the lighting system used on the Ford Super Chief Concept. Full disclosure: while one of the Super Chief's design engineers totally went off on us for not calling her before we'd even managed to arrange a date, we still like the truck, and we thought the lighting appointments were pretty cool (a part of the vehicle she had nothing to do with, although we very much liked the part of the vehicle she
did work on).
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We're up too early, and somehow David Johansen's transition from NY Doll to Buster Poindexter and back again, as well as his role in
Mr. Nanny (the actor who played the protagonist in that film, by the way, owns a vintage Charger), makes us think of Ford's end-swap in design directions. As our pal
Ray pointed out to us last night, the "Gilette look" has been officially internally named; it's now known as "Modern Styling." While we think the
Super Chief was pretty damn cool and find the
Reflex interesting, the blandness in naming of such a sea change in identity suggests that while there are some creative people over at Ford, the folks at the top are officially out of ideas. Sad, really.
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