The Ford Futura is a large car made by Ford Australia Ford Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Ford Motor Company and was founded in Geelong, Victoria in 1925 as an outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. At that time, Ford Canada was a separate company from Ford USA. Henry Ford had granted the manufacturing rights to Ford in British Empire countries (excepting the UK) to Canadian between 1962 and 2008. Although the last Futura was part of the BF Series Ford Falcon The Ford Falcon is a full-size car which has been manufactured by Ford Australia since 1960. Each model from the XA series of 1972 onward has been designed, developed and built in Australia, following the phasing out of the American Falcon of 1960-71 which had been re-engineered locally for the harsher Australian conditions. As a result of the range it was badged and marketed as the 'Ford Futura' rather than as the 'Ford Falcon Futura'. Ford Australia first used the Futura name on the Ford Falcon Futura which was introduced in 1962 as the new luxury sedan in the Falcon XL Series range. The name was dropped from the XR Falcon range of 1966 and re-introduced in the XW range of 1969. It was discontinued again for the XC Series of 1976 and re-appeared in the ED range of 1993. The name was used continuously by Ford Australia from that time until the replacement of the BF Series Ford Futura by the FG Series Ford G6 in 2008.

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US market

Logo plaque from 1960s US Futura

In the United States, Ford Futura may be considered an automobile model name that was never quite born. Scheduled to denote a new sedan entry for the North American market in 2005 (the 2006 model year),[1][2] the car it was destined for was renamed Ford Fusion The Ford Fusion is a mid-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company since the 2006 model year while still under development, due to a trademark A trademark or trade mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or services from those of other entities dispute. Futura proved to be owned by the Pep Boys The Pep Boys — Manny, Moe & Jack , branded as Pep Boys Auto and commonly abbreviated as Pep Boys, is a full-service automotive aftermarket chain. In 1921, Emanuel (Manny) Rosenfeld, Maurice L. (Moe) Strauss, and W. Graham (Jack) Jackson opened the first "Pep Auto Supplies" store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania auto parts chain, due to a tire line marketed by them under that brand.[3] Ford's claim failed because the company had not used the name for more than three years.

The company did use the name sporadically for several decades. In the 1950s, the Lincoln Futura show car provided the basis for the Batmobile later used in the Batman Batman, originally referred to as "the Bat-Man" and still referred to at times as "the Batman", is a fictional character, a comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger , appearing in publications by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939 television series. In the early 1960s, the Ford Falcon The Ford Falcon was an automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from 1960 to 1970. It was manufactured in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico and the USA. It was a huge sales success for Ford initially, handily outselling rival compacts from Chrysler and General Motors introduced at the same time. During its lifespan, the Falcon was had a specialty coupe submodel called Futura, and the same was true of the Ford Fairmont The 1978 Ford Fairmont was the first vehicle built on the Ford Fox platform, which would be the basis for a variety of other models, including the 1980 to 1988 Thunderbird, the 1981 to 1982 American Ford Granada, the 1979 to 2004 Mustang, and in 1982, the downsized Lincoln Continental. The Fairmont replaced the Ford Maverick, and at introduction in the late 1970s.

Dutch market

In the 2000s, Ford in the Netherlands has Futura special editions of many of its mainstream models.

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?article=5944
  2. ^ "Ford To Build All-New Futura At Hermosillo". Autointell.com. 2003-10-06. http://www.autointell.com/News-2003/October-2003/October-2003-2/October-08-03-p2.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
  3. ^ "Ford: Fusion news **Fusion Hybrid - Most Fuel Efficient Midsize (page 6)** - AcuraZine Community". Acurazine.com. http://www.acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136522. Retrieved 2009-10-02.

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Categories: Ford vehicles This category lists vehicles that have been sold by the Ford Motor Company under the Ford brand. This does not include their sub-brands, such as Jaguar and Aston Martin. See the sub-categories for vehicles sold under sub-brands | Australian cars Categories: Automobiles by country | Transport in Australia | Road transport in Australia

 

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