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Jean B. - 19 Apr 2006 21:02 GMT

Have any of you checked this out? Egad! I wonder what the
price will be--and when it will be available. Don't like
those doors though... Here are some pics and some prose:

<http://watthead.blogspot.com/2006/01/ford-debuts-reflex-diesel-electric.html>

or

http://makeashorterlink.com/?E25E35BFC

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Bill - 20 Apr 2006 00:24 GMT

> Have any of you checked this out? Egad! I wonder what the price will
> be--and when it will be available. Don't like those doors though... Here
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> http://makeashorterlink.com/?E25E35BFC

Doors? They look like deployed thrust reversers.

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Jean B. - 20 Apr 2006 03:27 GMT

>>Have any of you checked this out? Egad! I wonder what the price will
>>be--and when it will be available. Don't like those doors though... Here
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> Doors? They look like deployed thrust reversers.

Hehe. And someone else said that may correlate with a very
low clearance. We shall see. (Actually the Prius has
slightly better clearance than the Passat, thank goodness.)

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B. Peg - 20 Apr 2006 13:23 GMT

> Have any of you checked this out? Egad! I wonder what the price will
> be--and when it will be available. Don't like those doors though... Here
> are some pics and some prose:
>
> <http://watthead.blogspot.com/2006/01/ford-debuts-reflex-diesel-electric.html>

Quote: "Now, the Reflex is quite definitely just a PR stunt that will never
make it into real production."

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Jean B. - 20 Apr 2006 16:07 GMT

>>Have any of you checked this out? Egad! I wonder what the price will
>>be--and when it will be available. Don't like those doors though... Here
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> B~

Well, that's sad. I did write to Ford about it....

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carsyoung@gmail.com - 28 Apr 2006 05:28 GMT

> Have any of you checked this out? Egad! I wonder what the
> price will be--and when it will be available. Don't like
> those doors though... Here are some pics and some prose:

You can view this *concept* vehicle at the Ford site for the 2006
Detroit auto show. Be warned, you'll need Flash to view it and some
snippets of information about it:
http://www.ford.com/en/vehicles/autoShows/detroit/2006/default.htm?Proj=AS&Locat
ion=2006_Detroit

The problem with concept vehicles is that many of them never make it to
production... (Note that the Prius was shown as a concept vehicle at
the 1995 Tokyo Motor Show, and looked outwardly like a Corolla with
hybrid innards... And wasn't available as a production vehicle until
1997 (1998 model year) in Japan.) The other problem with the listed
vehicle is that it is diesel, and it'll still be another year or two
before the US sees any clean diesel around here...

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Jean B. - 28 Apr 2006 23:49 GMT

>>Have any of you checked this out? Egad! I wonder what the
>>price will be--and when it will be available. Don't like
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> vehicle is that it is diesel, and it'll still be another year or two
> before the US sees any clean diesel around here...

I gather there is no plan at the current time to produce this
for the market, alas. If they do, I hope they will make the
doors more normal.... I guess there'll be a while to think
about that. And now with the possibility of a 90-mph Prius in
2008, I might just wait for that!

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