What had appeared feminine and sensual with its top down suddenly looked like a focused, masculine machine wearing a hardtop. With its wraparound ’screen and tapering rear wings it looked compact and elegant, clearly American yet somehow not out of place in a European environment. All I know is that they look great, my epiphany moment coming when I snatched a glimpse of an all-black example cruising through west London.
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Car and Driver even voted it one of its most embarrassing ‘car of the year’ winners.
I have only recently learned how short-lived these 11th-generation Thunderbirds were, and how the applause that greeted them 17 years ago has now turned, in some quarters, to sneers and derision. I can’t recall if I drove it, but it struck me as something that I wouldn’t be embarrassed to be seen in.Ģ002 Ford Thunderbird 3.9 2-Door Auto – road test There was later a flicker of recognition at a test day when Ford had one on hand to try. Its appeal has grown on me by stealth I didn’t take much notice of the 1999 show car by J Mays or even the late-2001 launch of the production version, where it garnered feverish interest and public approval, feeding an apparent appetite for a blue-collar glamour car that was going to come in at under $40k.
To admit to a liking for the 2002-’2005 Ford Thunderbird feels a bit like giving away a guilty secret. SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY? THUNDERBIRD: FORD’S RETRO MILLENNIAL ’Bird is the word Martin Buckley admits a guilty secret: he loves the reborn Ford Thunderbird It pays homage to its ’50s predecessor, but the Ford Thunderbird for the new millennium has an appeal all of its own.
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