What is it with the Ford Fusion?

[sday12]

That makes it the ugliest car Ford have produced?


It is only driven by octogenarians


My mother is on her forth.


It has no redeeming features, soft-o-matic steering and gearbox, slabs of plastic, and permanantly tuned to Magic FM.


I asked her what was on the drive, and did she want me to shoot it?

[Shaw Tarse]

More than the Edsel?

[sday12]

Shaw Tarse said:

More than the Edsel?

Yes, more than the Edsel, I don't have to look at the Edsel twice a week.

This car seriously makes me angry.

Edited by sday12 on Sunday 12th April 19:39

[OllieWinchester]

The target demographic for these high roofed little Postman Pat wagons must be a) People with beehive hair styles a'la Amy Crackhouse or b)People who habitually drive whilst wearing a top hat.

Anyone who drives one is unwittingly saying "I have been mugged into thinking I need this car by a salesman".

[sday12]

My mother doesn't actually pay more than £70 a month for the car, it's a Ford Motor Co Pensioner Company Car.

I'm sure everytime she orders one they have to start the line up again.


Am I right in thinking it's based on a Transit Compact?

[Podie]

sday12 said:

Am I right in thinking it's based on a Transit Compact?

Fusion is Fiesta based.

[sday12]

Podie said:

sday12 said:

Am I right in thinking it's based on a Transit Compact?

Fusion is Fiesta based.

Then why does it lean like a truck?

[olly_rowland]

I was having a conversation with someone about this car the other day. We couldn't work out where it fits into Fords range of vehicles. Other than crack addicted, beehive hair styled singers and top hat wearing gentlemen, who is this car aimed at? And why did Ford make a car that isn't needed in the market between a fiesta and a focus?

[sday12]

Didn't they get caught out by the competition, so rushed it out, the only possible explination?


Meriva?

Edited by sday12 on Sunday 12th April 19:49

[fathomfive]

sday12 said:

Podie said:

sday12 said:

Am I right in thinking it's based on a Transit Compact?

Fusion is Fiesta based.

Then why does it lean like a truck?

Because they jacked it up suspension-wise?

[sday12]

fathomfive said:

sday12 said:

Podie said:

sday12 said:

Am I right in thinking it's based on a Transit Compact?

Fusion is Fiesta based.

Then why does it lean like a truck?

Because they jacked it up suspension-wise?

Ah ha, and put a foot inbetween the roof

[Podie]

sday12 said:

Podie said:

sday12 said:

Am I right in thinking it's based on a Transit Compact?

Fusion is Fiesta based.

Then why does it lean like a truck?

It has a higher ride height, and softer suspension.

The Fusion was designed and introduced at the same time as the outgoing Fiesta, and it's from the same platform. I can't recall if the TC uses the same platform though.

The car's "niche" was supposed to be an "urban Fiesta" that was "tougher" and more "streetwise" However, despite Ford being pretty good at designing cars for people in their third age, it's been adopted by octagenarians as if it were a Honda Civic.

I think we can blame focus groups and consumer clinics for this one...

[Swoxy]

In the 2002 Top Gear Awards it won the Most Pointless Car for being, as Richard Hammond described it, "a Ford Fiesta, in a hat".

[Nolar Dog]

Podie said:

I think we can blame focus groups...

I like what you've done there.

[sday12]

Yeah, it shouts 'street' doesn't it

[Podie]

sday12 said:

Yeah, it shouts 'street' doesn't it

Yep... Ford are best leaving Renault to find the niche markets...

Swoxy said:

In the 2002 Top Gear Awards it won the Most Pointless Car for being, as Richard Hammond described it, "a Ford Fiesta, in a hat".

A phrase stolen from the Ford internal blurb. In fact, the Puma was referred to as "a Fiesta with a different hat on"

[xxplod]

I hate all of these stupid, bloated versions of already stunningly bland cars. Bloody Vauxhall Meriva, that inflated Golf. Always driven badly, either by old giffers or mothers driving brats from A to B.

[eltax91]

OK, flame proof coat time here.

My uncle is 72, doesn't give two hoots about handling, performance or anything else. He's been a ford man forever, but as he's got older he finds the mondeo and focus impossible to get in and out of. He sat in a fusion once at trad-in time and he's converted ever since. OK, it;s a focus inside, which is not terrible, it goes ina straight line and around corners.

It's perfect for him!

[morgrp]

if anyone can give me a good reason for buying one over either a fiesta or focus I'll gladly hear it - Most pointless car Ford has made in ages

[sday12]

My wife has just stated that the purchasers of such a car:


"are no sadder than you and your internet 'buddies' discussing it's merits or otherwise on a bloody Sunday evening"


How very dare you....