They're bringing back the 200!

[Dave Eaton]

this clarity of thinking does not occur within the top floors of the ford
corporate offices.  ford took ferrari to court over their use of "f150" to
denote their new 2011 f1 race car.  "f150th itialia" is the full name i
believe, f150 for short, but clearly ford were concerned that a race car,
unavailable to the market, made out of carbon fibre and unobtanium, and
certainly unable to pick up the milk from a garage without the use of a
flat-bed truck was clearly *way* to close in concept to the f150 truck,
and would detract on its carefully cultivated image....

maybe they thought the rear wing was a gun rack?

dave
'03 rs6
'04 allroad tdi

On 13/02/11 6:34 AM, "Ed Kellock" <ekellock at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>Strangely it didn't even register with me.  I read about the Chrysler 200
>in
>a magazine a couple weeks ago and I didn't even make the connection.  And
>I
>still own a 200.  I don't think anyone is going to confuse them.  Chrysler
>already has the current 300 and I knew it was preceded many years before
>by
>a 300, so to rename the Sebring the 200 just sort of made sense to me.
>Isn't somebody in China remaking Audis and calling them 300s?
>
>Ed
>