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30-03-2011, 10:23 AM
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Ford Australia Revives Mad Max Interceptor
Ford Australia, in partnership with TopGear Australia magazine, has unveiled not one, but two spectacular new Mad Max Interceptors. The 21st century concepts have been designed by Ford's designers for TopGear Magazine Australia to help celebrate the revival of the Mad Max action movie genre. It is more than 30 years since Hollywood director, George Miller's original Mad Max movie - starring Mel Gibson and a jet black Ford XB coupe-based Interceptor - hit movie screens around the world. Ford Australia's Melbourne-based Asia, Pacific and Australia Design Director, Chris Svensson, jumped at the chance to design a new Interceptor and has since thrown the full weight of Ford Australia's Research Centre behind the project, with stunning results. "Our entire team was very excited to be involved in this after-hours project and they approached it with a great deal of enthusiasm – even those that were too young to remember the first Mad Max movie," Svensson said. "We had a special screening of the original movie so they could understand it." Led by chief designer passenger cars Asia, Pacific and Africa, Todd Willing, the team created several way-out concepts that pay homage to styling cues from the original XB Coupe Interceptor. Out of the concepts two have been chosen by the magazine to feature in the April issue of TopGear Australia magazine, on sale now, because they take body design, power sources and weaponry to a futuristic level. TopGear Australia magazine readers will be invited to vote on which design Ford should take to the next level. The winning car will be turned into a clay model, and then a scale version, which is expected to be revealed later this year. The two competing designs – by designers Nima Nourian and Simon Brook - are limitless in their imagination, technology and weaponry. Among the weaponry is an industrial-strength "taser" mounted to the bonnet to zap bad guys on bikes straight off the road. Other futuristic movie features include a titanium-lined body shell to interrupt police scanners and wheels with extendable spikes to shred enemy vehicles. Nourian said his design paid tribute to the 1970s Interceptor, but also drags the car into the future. "There are some great scenes in the first movie with high-speed chases and clashes with the bad guys, and I thought I'd take that one step further," he said. "So instead of having weapons and machine guns, we've got an industrial strength taser that'll zap cars dead and out of the way. Brook's car was equally threatening. "During high-speed pursuits, the wheel's inner spokes on my design would pop out and start ripping up other cars," Brook said. "They'd do some serious damage to other people's vehicles." Brook's design takes cues from the current FG Falcon but advances it further into Armageddon-land, while adding touches of the retro Interceptor as well. "I wanted to keep it clean and aerodynamic in its essence, but still brutal and tough." Miller has begun filming for a new Mad Max instalment, tentatively called Mad Max 4: Fury Road.
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30-03-2011, 10:29 AM
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Jeeebus
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30-03-2011, 10:33 AM
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I do like the second sketch.
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30-03-2011, 10:40 AM
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the first one doesn't look like a ford at all and the second one looks like what an 8-year-old would draw if a superhero drove a Ford Probe.
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30-03-2011, 10:55 AM
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[QUOTE]Barry, MFP Garage Mechanic: She sips nitro... with Phase 4 heads! 600 horsepower through the wheels!
She's meanness set to music and the ***** is born to run!  [QUOTE]Goose: larger than life and twice as ugly! 
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30-03-2011, 10:58 AM
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Here we go! star trekkin across the universe,only goin ford cause we can't find reserves.
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30-03-2011, 09:22 PM
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30-03-2011, 10:15 PM
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The one by Simon Brook is tough. Love it.
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30-03-2011, 10:59 AM
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OOHH I was really hoping for a Falcon GT on steroids: bash plate, big tyres, flashing police lights...
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30-03-2011, 11:03 AM
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I saw this thread and i genuinly got excited....how quickly excitment turns to dissapointment. Cant tell you how much i hate futuristic designs...
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Do Ford produce that ??? 
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30-03-2011, 11:10 AM
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Damn right, give us fat steel wheels, flared guards, stoneflectors etc, not some hairdresser's batmobile
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30-03-2011, 11:11 AM
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30-03-2011, 11:10 AM
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Where is the hardtop.
It isn't Max if theres no hardtop.
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30-03-2011, 12:53 PM
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30-03-2011, 11:14 AM
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My eyes!
Maybe the Design team should get back to adding value in designing better looking alloy wheels for the FPV range.... |
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30-03-2011, 11:15 AM
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why couldnt they adapt a current falcon into a coupe as a tribute...sheez what are these egg heads thinkin
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30-03-2011, 09:11 PM
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In the mag there is a sketch of an FG falcon based car with new styled old school charger hanging out of the bonnet and it looked pretty good wonder why they didn't go down that road its good to see the designers blowing off some steam, we don't see any concept cars from ford oz anymore so its a welcome. They don't look too bad these 2 designs but i do like a more traditional approach to the Mad Max Interceptor. I just really hope the turn them into a concept car with FPV driveline in there to make it a ripper drive kind of like the Efijy from a couple of years back |
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30-03-2011, 11:31 AM
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I thought the car was for Mad Max not Batman. It looks ****.
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30-03-2011, 01:35 PM
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Have to agree with you. Great looking cars for batman rather than that crap they had but it isn't right for MAX. No way at all. Thats something that appeals to the yanks but doesn't stick to what Mad Max was all about
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30-03-2011, 11:43 AM
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Same design team as they had on the au? Fg coupe would be a good mad max car. Or get the xa back out.
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30-03-2011, 11:44 AM
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in a world without Petrol and nothing but barren desert... technology sure has come a long way.
is it powered by pig ****?
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30-03-2011, 10:23 PM
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And stop turning coupes into Mad Max replicas. There's enough around to begin the MFP for real!!!! AAAAARrrrrrrrgggghhhh. |
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31-03-2011, 01:07 AM
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at the dinner scene where the tow trucks are,, wasn't their a blown 1980's WB ute green in colour??
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30-03-2011, 12:09 PM
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+1 to disappointing...GOLDEN opportunity to use the FG and turn it into a coupe, have it at motorshows, it would get heaps of air time...but no...nothing more than a squashed looking GT90 at best.
Or even a coupe based of the FG platform that could morph into a possible Lincoln...Jesus just something! Talk about generic. Unreal....
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I've had some great ideas in my head for an FG based mad max. If only I had Photoshop!
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30-03-2011, 12:20 PM
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I think this calls for an AFF Mad Max PS Comp...guarantee people here would do a better job.
The above reminds me of some crap out of the Tom Cruise movie which I cant even remember the name of. I tell you what would be a good base, Tocchi's FG XR8...just make it two doors and its just about done. edit...here we go..Im sure Tocchi wont mind.  
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30-03-2011, 12:22 PM
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ooooooooooooooohhhhh nooooooooooo
Looks like a big black tuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrdddd |
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30-03-2011, 12:35 PM
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Wow whoever the design director is and came up with this concept clearly has not seen Mad Max. How could they think this looks good, it has lightning in the grille ffs, this isn't a Marvel Comic movie.
That first pic of the black XR8 would be the perfect opening scene. Just imagine that with a panning camera shot just following it infront for a while, with loud as V8 roar and supercharger whine, then he just takes off in pursuit with a deafening rumble...that would be cool.
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