With a V-10 sedan holding the promise of a little kick, Ford also would take aim at younger buyers as well. With the 427, Ford would take one giant leap toward rebuilding that full-size sedan segment. If built, perhaps for ’06, the 427 would be a companion to the midsize Ford Five Hundred sedan coming out for ’05. The sedan concept owes its name to its 427-cubic-inch, 7-liter, 590-horsepower V-10 derived from the 5.4-liter, V-8 in the Mustang Cobra R. Though rear-wheel-drive, it could be adapted to all-wheel-drive as well. Nothing is more American than the big sedan–it isn’t Japanese or German.”įord has set out to solve the problem, as evidenced by the concept 427 sedan built off a longer, wider stretch of the Ford DEW platform, same one used for the Thunderbird, Lincoln LS and next-generation Mustang. Detroit needs to be Detroit, to stop trying to be Japanese or German. It’s not that people walked away from big sedans it’s that the industry walked away. Mays calls the 427 “the reinvention of the big Ford sedan,” noting that, “40 years ago there was nothing more popular than the sedan. But people don’t aspire to big sedans today because the industry builds boring ones,” J Mays, vice president of design for Ford, told us at the unveiling of the Ford 427 concept at a preview in Las Vegas before it hit the auto-show circuit to test consumer reaction. People aspired to buy them just like they aspire to buy today. “In the ’60s, big sedans were prestigious. If the fountain of youth exists, the Crown Vic should be hooked up via IV to those magical, restoring waters. But truth is that the Crown Vic has been around longer than dirt. OK, this scribe is being a bit sarcastic again. 23 in McCormick Place South, to review the 2003 Ford Crown Victoria.įitting because, though we couldn’t verify it in any history books, the Crown Victoria reportedly was introduced at the show in 1492–or was it ’93? Whatever the date, Chris Columbus was the narrator who detailed the features on the car. Perhaps it’s only fitting that we pause, as the latest technology and innovation in automobiles is on display at the Chicago Auto Show through Feb.
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