Ford Futura

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The Ford Futura is a large passenger car that Ford Australia made. It was available as a 4-door sedan and a 5-door station wagon. The Futura belongs to the BF series of the Australian Ford Falcon but was marketed as "Ford Futura" and not as "Ford Falcon Futura". The name first appeared on a luxury XL-series sedan of the Ford Falcon that was released in 1962. In 1966 the name was dropped again on the XR series, but it reappeared on the XW series in 1969. In 1976 he disappeared again in the XC series, to reappear in 1993 in the ED series. Ford Australia has been using it since then.

The Ford Group occasionally used the model name Futura in the USA. In the 1950s there was a prototype called the Lincoln Futura that formed the basis for the Batmobile that was later used in the Batman television series . In the early 1960s, the American Ford Falcon had a higher-quality coupé under the name Futura, as did the Ford Fairmont in the 1970s.

Originally, the Ford Fusion , which appeared in the USA at the end of 2005, was to be marketed as the Futura . The model was renamed before its appearance after a court ruling on the naming rights. Futura belongs to the automotive spare parts chain Pep Boys and is used as the name for their tires.

In the 2000s, Ford of Europe offered various special models with the additional name Futura.

Picture gallery

  • Ford Futura front view

  • Ford Futura rear view

  • Ford Futura cockpit

  • Emblem of a US Futura from the 1960s

Web links

Commons : Ford Futura  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • The Australian Ford Falcon Collection, © 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ford can't use Futura name