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Replying to: mitchflorida (Jan 24, 2009 1:12 pm) |
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Replying to: coldcranker (Jan 24, 2009 2:07 pm) you can see where the original platform was stretched in width. i have been in an edge a few times, even driven 1 for a few days, but i never thought to look for the same platform underneath.
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 24, 2009 4:01 pm)
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Replying to: akirby (Jan 25, 2009 8:32 am) |
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Replying to: coldcranker (Jan 24, 2009 2:07 pm) I think you pulled the weights from two bad examples. Ford's site says a 2008 Fusion SE FWD V6 weighs 3280 lbs while a 2008 Edge SE FWD weighs 4078 lbs. That's still a difference of 800 lbs but a lot of it is due to extra sheet metal, the aforementioned structural reinforcements/additions, more glass, more sound deadening materials, slightly heavier engine, larger wheels, etc. I'm guessing the 2010 Fusion will be a little heavier since it will have more sound deadening materials and some other enhancements that seem likely to add a small amount of weight.
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Replying to: baggs32 (Jan 26, 2009 10:03 am)
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Replying to: coldcranker (Jan 27, 2009 8:31 am) They modify it. I'm not sure it can be put any other way than that. Honda made the Pilot out of the Accord and Odyssey, Toyota made the Highlander and Sienna out of the Camry, Mazda made the CX-9 out of the Mazda6. It's not like they dropped the body of the Edge on top of the Mazda6 chassis and crossed their fingers that it would hold up. They do add structural reinforcements and bend a bunch of the chassis components to make it all work. The Edge chassis is based on, and loosely I'd wager, the Mazda6 chassis. It's not using the Mazda6 chassis intact. I'm not sure anyone short of a Ford engineer can tell you exactly what had to be modified to make it work for the Edge.
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Replying to: baggs32 (Jan 27, 2009 9:28 am) |
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I'm suprised how the 2010 Taurus almost came out of nowhere, already has a date when you can test drive them (Buy 'em?), and seemingly the facts and figures like MPG are available. So what happened to the 2010 Fusion? Lots of hype about the hybrid and I-4 MPG, and a few rumors about when we may see them in the showrooms, but that's about it. (OK, a nice bunch of pages on Ford's website, but they still don't have a V6 MPG figure yet? I heard they're already running the assembly line in Mexico for them.) Did I miss something? Are they having issues? I'm still not ready to jump into buying one, but just waiting on the news.
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Replying to: xmech (Feb 12, 2009 10:14 pm) |
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