My opinion is the nose cone is a little too aggressive. I like the suicide doors without a B pillar.

As for something more HHR like: http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/n...cus-2010-01-11

 

Not even close. It is a low roof car and would never carry anything near a HHR or CSUV. I suspect Ford will show us something int he future based on this with more utility.

 

The final will have some changes like door handles and wheels. ALso I would expect little less bling in the inside with a little more solid seat.

As for the doors GMS wants them and they do make it so one can load large cargo in the side. Two smaller doors would limit carrying and loading.

The doors would be like a Extended cab. and the front would have to open to open the rear or you can use them as a 2 door coupe and just fold the deat forward.

If I were them I would make the rear door open over center like the truck doors to more it out of the way when loading.

 

Ford is coming to North America with the Grand C-max. Based on the Focus platorm, its basically a rebadged Mazda 5 from what I can see

 

Looks a lot similar to the Fiesta, but bigger.

 

Talk about ugly X2.

 

yah ....I'm thinking this one falls smak dab in the middle of "Function over form". Pretty disappointing coming from Ford, especially when you consider the nice job done on the Fusion and new Focus.

 

Ain't that the truth!

Hope it remains somewhere close.