[Shotimes] Re: New Ford shooting brake with SHO intake?

[Donald Mallinson]

Ron,

Give the poor question mark key a rest will ya?  No need to be flip, it 
was a legit question about a wierd article.

I have read Car and Driver a very long time, and even for Phillips, this 
was off the wall. I enjoyed reading Yates, many people did.  Notice they 
didn't have the guts to put a single letter in about it, and you KNOW 
they got e-mail and letters by the mega-bite and ton. 

Yea, I saw all the odd references too.  But the article reads just 
legitimate enough to be true.  Just asking what people had heard.

Anyone else have a thought?

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:

>?????
>
>You are reading too much into things....they are probably better off without
>Yates, whose monthly oral diarrhea has been dropping off my C&D column
>reading for awhile.
>
>Anyway.....haven't you ever read John Phillips stuff before? He has ALWAYS
>written that way!! He has been my least-favorite C&D writer for awhile
>(although Brock was coming up fast on that list).
>
>The engine is the Miller Cycle that Mazda had out maybe 10 years ago (???) I
>never saw the underhood of one of those, so can't say if it looked the same.
>
>I take his comment about "more HP than torque" as a backhanded criticism of
>an engine that has no torque....looking at the rated HP versus the
>acceleration times proves this.
>
>Anyway, the whole test is tongue-in-cheek, as it's obvious that he doesn't
>care for the car much. Look at the names in Counterpoint...similar but
>tweaked from their real names (and obviously not their comments!!)
>
>Also read through the whole spec sheet...with the tornado and fuel magnets,
>among other things). 
>
>This thing is probably an entire put-on of a test of a design mule or some
>kind of future show car.
>
>Actually, if it is a put-on, it is a return to the C&D of old!!
>
>Ron Porter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net] 
>Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 11:26 AM
>To: SHOtimes; 'v8sho'; SHO Tech
>Subject: New Ford shooting brake with SHO intake?
>
>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
>
>
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