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Originally Posted by Adamz Ghia
Really it isn’t Fords fault at all with regards to how it looks (which to me is fine), it’s Supercars. They knew Falcon and the Aussie Commodore were on the way out, they knew the most likely replacements would be two door coupes and they still didn’t design the rules to fit this scenario. I’m betting there is no way Nissan would have raced Altimas if the rules were biased, or at least allowed for, 2 door coupes. Probably Mercedes too would have raced a 2 door rather than the E Class.
So I don’t know why so many here are directing their issues towards Ford when Ford have to work within rules and regulations set by the governing body.
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But they arent, the new commodore and Altima are 4 door sedans, its only Ford who've chosen to put a 2 door coupe body on a 4 door sedan derived control chassis, they could have run Mondeo body's, the Altima is not Nissans motorsport hero, its just the body used to promote the brand in the local catagory.
There's 3 manufacteres in the series, why would they change the rules to suit 1/3rd of them, Holden looked at the Camaro and made the correct decision to leave it off the table under current regulations.
The way i see it Ford had 3 choices, continue with the FGX in the short term and lobby for change to the chassis design, run the Mondeo in the short term and lobby for change to the chassis design or run a visually compromised Mustang.