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Aston Martin's Look MURDERED?! UPDATED: They Did It Again!

JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
edited January 2012 in General Discussion Posts: 5,745
Today Ford, once owned under the same branch as Aston Martin (if not still?) revealed its Ford Focus Electric, and what a disgrace.

The problem isn't that its -only- $40,000, or that it is a Ford, or by that even a Ford Focus. No, the problem is its <i>look</i>.
Take a gander and see if you don't see a mangled Aston staring back at you:
<img src="http://www.luanpa.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2012-ford-focus-electric-bev-front.jpg">;
<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FoXyvaPSnVk/TSdvu8Z3IMI/AAAAAAADz-c/COrqoj3PGLk/s1600/2012-Ford-Focus-Electric-58.JPG">;
<img src="http://wallpapers.lk/upload/DesktopWallpapers/cache/Aston-Martin-DBS-front-1920x1200.jpg">;


And the fatal blow, why the Ford sign above that infamous grill.
Shameful.

Do you think this is some easy marketing ploy to get the new car featured in 23?
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  • Risico007Risico007
    Posts: 9,847
    im getting the new focus
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    edited November 2011 Posts: 5,745
    Haha, was that decided before or after this post?

    I'll admit, it looks good.. but I don't think I could take you seriously if you stepped out in a tux :P

    My point is, they couldn't be original. Your taking a design worth 3x-4x more than a Focus, and well, putting it on what was not too long ago the ugliest car in America.
  • VirageVirage
    Posts: 1,856
    I Hear Lawyers

    anyway the astons look has evolved quite a lot since the DBS
  • anotherbondgeekanotherbondgeek
    Posts: 423
    *vomits*
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,585
    Yeah, it just looks weird. I think the grille is too big.
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    I wonder if they meant to do it. It does look pretty odd.

    Funny how its the exact opposite of what a DBS tries to be.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,266
    It's something you'd expect from a Korean company, not Ford. I think it's a bad move and won't help their sales. On the other hand, many people would settle for the ' lookalike' and fantasize they got the real thing. Oh wel..
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    Come to think of it, Aston Martin does seem interested in a small efficient car.
    Just look at this:

    image

    Now I personally think the ford looks better than that, but thats an official Aston..

    I wonder if the new focus was a concept of AM's while they were under the same boss..
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited November 2011 Posts: 14,585
    It looks like they did it for a joke. Actually, it looks photoshopped.
  • FromCanadaWithLoveFromCanadaWithLove Canada
    Posts: 612
    The Cygnet is real, sadly. The only reason AM made it was to balance out their 'economy ratings'. The good thing about this is, AM will still be feeding all our gas-guzzling V12 needs.
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    edited January 2012 Posts: 5,745
    Ford continues to butcher the Aston Martin look with their 2013 Ford Fusion. It shares a near identical grill design as the famous Aston martin. AND its a hybrid.

    1fusion.JPG
    http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/01/09/new-ford-fusion-plug-in-hybrid-to-get-100-mpge/?test=faces
  • TopGearJB007TopGearJB007
    Posts: 624
    You guys do realize that Ford still owns part of Aston Martin, right?

    Besides, it doesn't look like an Aston Martin to the extent to where you can't tell if it is an AM or not. If anything, I'd say it looks like a Lancer.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    not keen on that new look focus? :-& shame really as i do like the current models but that grill without the badge just doesn't look tight?
  • Char35tChar35t
    Posts: 289
    now you know why JB isnt driving AMs anymore, thankfully!
  • X3MSonicXX3MSonicX https://www.behance.net/gallery/86760163/Fa-Posteres-de-007-No-Time-To-Die
    Posts: 2,635
    lol, their next idea will be the Ford DBS. xD
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    edited January 2012 Posts: 5,745
    The new Fusion looks like a reasonable priced upper-middle mans Aston Martin, so why not make it a reasonable priced upper-middle mans Aston, not Ford.
  • BritishChap007BritishChap007
    edited January 2012 Posts: 555
    I'm definitely getting that Fusion (though not the Hybrid, as long as the look is the same).
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    BritishChap007 wrote:
    I'm definitely getting that Fusion (though not the Hybrid, as long as the look is the same).

    Its the Ford equivalent as the Chevy Cruze, I'm not sure its offered as an alternate to a hybrid.
  • mikebravo008mikebravo008
    Posts: 20
    TopGearJB007 wrote:
    You guys do realize that Ford still owns part of Aston Martin, right?

    Besides, it doesn't look like an Aston Martin to the extent to where you can't tell if it is an AM or not. If anything, I'd say it looks like a Lancer.

    That Cygnet is a Astonised version of a Toyota crap just for complying with the European Carbon Emission Norms called I don't know what.
    Agree with TopGear that it doesn't look like an AM to that extent. If you want to feel better, just google any Aston (except of course the Cygnet) and you'll feel reborn.

    Btw you do realize you accidentally advertised the ford?
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    I don't see how it DOESN'T look like an Aston. To me it looks exactly what a reasonably priced Aston would look like. I just wish it wasn't under Fords name. I like the car and all..
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    edited January 2012 Posts: 5,745
    I just saw it in video, and even the rear headlamps share the distinctiveness of the DB9.

    2013-Ford-Fusion.jpg
    aston-martin-db9-car_wallpapers_5802_1600x1200.jpg

    I kinda wish, like Toyota with Scion, we could have kept the unique look of both companies.
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    edited January 2012 Posts: 5,745
    2013-Ford-Fusion.jpg
    2011-Aston-Martin-DB9-Front-View.jpg
    aston_martin_rapide_renderings.jpg
  • JamarkisDanielsJamarkisDaniels
    edited January 2013 Posts: 3
    now, Why would Ford make the focus looks like an Aston Martin DB9 tho? are they just jealous? or do they still own them??
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    JamarkisDaniels wrote:
    now, Why would Ford make the focus looks like an Aston Martin DB9 tho? are they just jealous?

    Because it will sell, obviously. It looks good. Plus, they owned Aston Martin not too many years ago, so they have an excuse to use the designs.
  • JamarkisDanielsJamarkisDaniels
    Posts: 3
    I can see people fantacizing it as an Aston Martin.
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    JamarkisDaniels wrote:
    I can see people fantacizing it as an Aston Martin.

    Precisely why Ford did it. Moneyyyyyy.
  • JamarkisDanielsJamarkisDaniels
    Posts: 3
    They also did it to the Ford Fusion too I'd notice
  • JamesStockJamesStock
    edited January 2013 Posts: 572
    Double post, sorry
  • MrBrownMrBrown
    Posts: 202
    I've been seeing these Fords on the streets. They look strikingly similar to Aston Martin.

    You can now drive like Bond... for $85,000 less.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,803
    Y'know, that's not a bad little car now that I see it....
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