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- From: rogers@calamari.hi.com (Andrew Rogers)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Worst Car Award
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 09:20:40 -0000
- Organization: Hitachi Computer Products, OSSD division
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- In article <1k1svlINNd4d@uwm.edu> qazi@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Aamir Hafeez Qazi) writes:
- >>Apparently the Ford Taurus had little influence on the shape of cars today.
- >>In my opinion there is no car that has had a greater influence on the vast
- >>improvements of aerodynamics than the Taurus.
- >
- >--Why doesn't anyone give credit to the '84 Audi 5000 S??? I thought this
- > was the car that started the wave of aerosedans!!! The Taurus merely
- > copied the Audi's aerodynamic styling!
-
- Well, first of all I always thought the Taurus/Sable twins looked like
- high-tech Hudson Hornets, but that's only my opinion. But as far as the
- Taurus/Audi connection goes, I recall reading an interview with one of
- the Taurus designers in some auto rag circa '85-'86. He claimed that
- Ford and Audi independently came up with virtually the same styling, and
- since the Taurus was still on the drawing board when the Audi 5000 came
- out, Ford changed the proposed Taurus styling to avoid too obvious a
- resemblence.
-
- Andrew Rogers
-