Toyota Prius: Ford Reflex

"Jean B." <com> wrote in message
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Doors? They look like deployed thrust reversers.

Bill wrote:
 
Hehe. And someone else said that may correlate with a very
low clearance. We shall see. (Actually the Prius has
slightly better clearance than the Passat, thank goodness.)

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Jean B.

> Have any of you checked this out? Egad! I wonder what the price will 

Quote: "Now, the Reflex is quite definitely just a PR stunt that will never
make it into real production."

B~

B. Peg wrote:
 
Well, that's sad. I did write to Ford about it....

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Jean B.

Jean B. wrote: 

You can view this *concept* vehicle at the Ford site for the 2006
Detroit auto show. Be warned, you'll need Flash to view it and some
snippets of information about it:
http://www.ford.com/en/vehicles/autoShows/detroit/2006/default.htm?Proj=AS&Location=2006_Detroit

The problem with concept vehicles is that many of them never make it to
production... (Note that the Prius was shown as a concept vehicle at
the 1995 Tokyo Motor Show, and looked outwardly like a Corolla with
hybrid innards... And wasn't available as a production vehicle until
1997 (1998 model year) in Japan.) The other problem with the listed
vehicle is that it is diesel, and it'll still be another year or two
before the US sees any clean diesel around here...