[Shotimes] New Ford shooting brake with SHO intake?
Donald Mallinson
dmall@mwonline.net
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:26:10 -0500
Car & Driver magazine is wigging out since the firing of Brock Yates.
The June issue has the most odd writing style I have ever seen. I was
reading it late last night on the throne and kept looking at the cover
to be sure I didn't have the April Fools edition.
but it was the JUne edition. Check out page 121 for the road test of
the Ford Futura Sprint GT/A wagon.
A four door (two on the drivers side with the rear being suicide style)
and only ONE on the right and a huge single rear door. NO rear seat,
and a bench option (with console and floor shift manual) that is
supposed to sit three across.
But most wierd is the car has a narrow angle V6 with a SHO intake! The
intake is virtually identical to the SHO with GT/A where SHO would be.
Odd that none of the writers mention this. The writing by John Phillips
reads very odd. In fact I had to wonder if someone had slipped me a
mickey in a drink at the cruise in earlier in the evening and I was
halucinating! Read the article, you will see why I felt this way.
As usual they hated the car, but the writing was way off base. Car
looks cool, but has that "car show" dream car feel about it, but they
write like it is going on sale in the US. 245 hp and they seem to be
surprised that a small engine would have more HP than torque...well
virtually every non-power adder small engine is more HP than torque.
WHAT is this car? is it for real? Is C& D pulling our legs, or have
they gone off the deep end without Brock to be the "deep" end for them?
Don Mallinson