ford and the new turbocoupe August 01, 2010, 11:58:58 PM i was on nato and started a post on if ford should bring back the turbo coupe like they did the SHO. i know if we have enough votes it can happen so if you could sign and spread the website around...face book, myspace, twitter, ect...get others to sign to, http://www.petitiononline.com/tbtc8788/petition.htmli have a brother in law who is part of SHO fourm and they had a big debate and the members on the forum were the biggest part of bring the SHO back, ford did it because they stood out and got noticed, if we can do the same thing. the turbo coupe can come back if we make a big deal and sign. plz guys -sean Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #1 – August 02, 2010, 12:01:10 AM i know it can happen just because i was there every step of the way. Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #2 – August 02, 2010, 12:10:57 AM comment if you signed Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #3 – August 02, 2010, 12:15:49 AM Signed. This would be too awesome, and you never know.Perhaps they could have option to up the engine to a RWD SHO variant?.... Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #4 – August 02, 2010, 12:20:23 AM Frankly, looking at the sticker price of a new SHO, I can't even begin to imagine what the sticker on something like a limited production Turbocoupe would even begin at. No thanks. Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #5 – August 02, 2010, 01:02:51 AM IMO, this is what people want. Look at all the commotion made over the new V6 mustang. And not just on here. You hear about it all over the place. And the Camaro too. One thing that people are in the market for right now, is for Fast, Efficient, and Stylish *American made* sports cars to come back. Considering the SHO is one of the Ford badge's premium models, and it runs about $45,000, and the new Mustangs, being what they are, run between $23~34,000, I couldn't see this car being much more than $30~35,000. Consider what you would get in something like this, and put it against what you get now for the other cars. This would more than likely be some sort of middle ground between the two in terms of power, efficiency, luxury, and style, and you would probably get a pretty close mix in price.The only thing that troubles me is that it probably would not make a good product right now for Ford, due to the fact that the Mustang has pretty much taken the pony car category for them, and the Fusion and Taurus are pulling in the personal luxury areas. If they were to remake the TC as a luxury sport coupe, reusing a rear drive variant of the SHO engine, but then making ride, handling, and interior (both space and comfort) the main priorties, and then market it to the same type of nostalgic crowd that bought all the new retro styled Challengers, then maybe. I think there are really a whole lot more people out there besides just us that would be ecstatic to see any kind of Thunderbird brought back. And no doubt it would be exciting, but right now with the market in the condition its in, and all the flooding by other companies, it would definitely be tough to sell it in any case. And because of that its hard for me to see Ford being willing to take the risk of adding on any new model at all right now, especially considering the now official death of Mercury, which one could very easily take as a sign of downsizing. But...we can still try.Hell, its kinda funny though, that it might even help to turn it into some kind of Lincoln variant. If Caddy can make the (beautiful) XLR from a Corvette Y-body, why not a TC style Mark IX from a stretched Mustang SN-197? Of course then you would definitely be getting into the serious $$ but a guy can dream:DThat's my opinion on the subject. Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #6 – August 02, 2010, 01:20:51 AM (I say this with NO bias..) The only Thunderbird they will ever produce again (very doubtful) will be the 2 seater like we saw in the early '00's. Yeah, they made it, and yes, it sucked balls so hard even Jenna Jameson was impressed.TurboCoupes came later....I seriously doubt Ford will even consider it. Not that I'd love to see it...but I sure will not hold my breath. Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #7 – August 02, 2010, 01:28:28 AM In these times, it's going to be an impossible sell to Ford's top management to tool up a production run for another coupe. There really is not much of chance you will ever see a Taurus Coupe or a Fusion Coupe. Ford is also too protective of the sales figures of the Mustang to allow internal competition. In order to justify the expense of tooling up coupe specific parts there has to be a substantial demand for such a vehicle. The revival of a newer Thunderbird has been held back because there is already the four seat Mustang coupe and convertible in the market. The original Mustang was developed as what the Ford designers wanted the 1958 Thunderbrid to be in the first place in before Thunderbirds went off into the personal luxury direction increasingly growing in size. Until the 1962 Fairlane came out with it's small block V8, Ford did not have a small enough V8 engine that could be packaged around a car the size of the original Mustang. There was room for these multiple offerings from Ford back in the day. These days Ford is carefully running lean only offering models in top key market segments that guarentee sufficient sales volumes. We all know that the large coupe segment has been a bust since the mid-1990's. Sure I would love to see Thunderbird revival. However the Tbird is ed as a two seater revival because the Mustang will consistantly outsell it in four seater form. The new Mustangs are virtually as big on the outside as our old Fox Thunderbirds. If Ford ever did bring back a two seat Thunderbird it will be priced so high that it will remain a rich man's toy just like the previous generation. The most likely senario is for a revived Tbird to compete in a four door "coupe" segment against the likes of similar models offered by Mercedes and VW. There is already a president for four door Tbirds as they were offered in the late 60's. However, people did not even buy those because they could get an LTD Broughman equipped similarly for a lower price. I would think the same thing could happen again where the Taurus would outsell a revived four door Tbird "coupe". The Lincoln MKR concept was representitive of that possible model configuration. If it is ever decided that Lincoln will actually produce the MKR concept, it will more than likely go to Lincoln. I suppose a Tbird version could be spun off as well. Any hopes at all of a Tbird revival will depend on the next generation platform for the Mustang. Ford will definitely be careful to not upset the heritage of a RWD Thunderbird and they will never again hang the name on something that does not live up to that heritage and image. They will also not embarrass themselves by putting a Thunderbird name on something that will not sell well or fall short of expectations. It's bad enough so many people think that Ford discontinued the last Thunderbird because it failed to sell when in fact from the get go it was only conceived to be limited production car for a few years. The Windsor plant shut down which built the Tbird, Lincoln LS and Town Car, plus the Ford GT. Everything now days is being built in plants that utilize flexible production. We can also expect the Mustang to be untilizing more flexible production by sharing a common platform with possible future Ford and Lincoln models. Cadillac is taking a big risk with their new CTS Coupe. If it sells, only then will Ford even consider competitive product if potential sales volumes justify it. The Thunderbird legacy has a lot of meaning to us of course, but it will be very difficult to sell a Thunderbird in these times when the lastest generation of people generally don't embrace the legacy of the Thunderbird image and name. The Mustang has been the image maker simply because it's performance roots have always been embraced by enthusiasts. The Mustang legacy has far eclipsed the Thunderbird and every other Ford model as Ford's most valuable icon. Most of the last couple of generations of four seat Tbirds and Cougars were sold to people who still embraced the image of a personal luxury coupe and not so much for the perfomance oriented Turbo Coupe and Super Coupe models. Most of those cars were sold in high volumes at affordable prices following the precedent that the 1977-79 Thunderbird set when they were moved to the Torino platform and the prices slashed by $2000 compared to the more expensive and much larger 1976 and earlier versions. That segment of sales moved to SUV's and four door cars as large coupe sales plummeted. These days most people are not conditioned so much to care whether a car has four doors or not. However I will always have a preference for a two door coupe. Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #8 – August 02, 2010, 09:13:19 AM you have to have the right attitude about it. ford will decide when to sell it but the plan is to get this idea in there heads. Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #9 – August 02, 2010, 10:48:49 AM The only idea in Ford's head right now is making money, and bringing back an obscure 80's automotive footnote is not the way to do so. You may see another Thunderbird some day (maybe even as a four-door, which has happened before), but I highly doubt you'll ever see another Turbo Coupe.Come to think of it, a four-door T-Bird would be a pretty good idea, and more likely than any new coupe or even roadster version. Based on a next-gen Mustang platform (but looking entirely different from the Mustang) it'd help amortize the Mustang's costs, and a quick scan of any mall parking lot would show the idea worked quite well for Dodge (Charger). T-Bird fans couldn't even complain about a four-door 'Bird like the Dodge guys do with the Charger, because unlike the Charger, the T-Bird was available as a four-door in its long and varied past... Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #10 – August 02, 2010, 02:08:00 PM signed. turbo 3.7 would be cool. Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #11 – August 02, 2010, 02:15:44 PM The only reason the SHO name came back is because someone at Ford thought it was a better name than "Taurus EcoBoost".Trust me you won't be seeing a new TC or even a Thunderbird any time soon. Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #13 – August 02, 2010, 03:52:55 PM I like the idea.However, if they mis-pr0nounce "Turbo Coupe" on the TV ads like they mispr0nounce S-H-O, then that would be a tragedy....Why does the guy on TV call it a "SHOW"......WTF ??? Quote Selected
ford and the new turbocoupe Reply #14 – August 02, 2010, 04:09:15 PM Quote from: 83-88T-Bird Guy;330424I like the idea.However, if they mis-pr0nounce "Turbo Coupe" on the TV ads like they mispr0nounce S-H-O, then that would be a tragedy....[FONT="Arial Black"]Why does the guy on TV call it a "SHOW[/FONT]"......WTF ???Thats what I've always called them.... :( Quote Selected
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