The Ford SYNUS (warning UGLY alert)

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Posted: 1/9/2005 8:35:54 AM EDT

And when you thought the Sision had the market on ugly vehicles, along comes Ford with this little crapper. I know it’s a concept, but they usually portend to design cues of future models…

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:36:53 AM EDT

[#1]

Looks like an armored truck

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:36:55 AM EDT

[#2]

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:37:33 AM EDT

[#3]

Looks like the Honda Element.... which I also consider ugly.

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:38:19 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Looks like an armored truck

+1 from a Sci-Fi movie.

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:38:26 AM EDT

[#5]

looks like a smaller H2

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:38:45 AM EDT

[#6]

Looks like a Brinks truck.

Does it have firing ports?

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:39:14 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Looks like a riced armored truck

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:39:25 AM EDT

[#8]

Looks like a mod of the new Bronco concept.

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:39:33 AM EDT

[#9]

WTF...

Can you say Blind Spot?

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:39:50 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Looks like the Honda Element.... which I also consider ugly.

Amen brother, except "hideous" is the word I would have used.

WTF are these knuckleheads thinking?

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:40:19 AM EDT

[#11]

Makes my sinuses flare up.

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:52:01 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Makes my sinuses flare up.

They're naming a truck after an infection??

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:54:22 AM EDT

[#13]

Looks like the "Pope mobile"!!!

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:55:03 AM EDT

[#14]

are the new car designers using too many drugs?

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:56:16 AM EDT

[#15]

I like it

Posted: 1/9/2005 8:59:59 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
I like it

Go see an eye doctor.
j/k

To each his own.

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:01:49 AM EDT

[#17]

Oh, FUCK no!

Someone was *really* high/stoned/a world class moron when they thought this abortion was good idea.

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:09:31 AM EDT

[#18]

wtf

let's just hope ford keeps that a concept and nothing more.

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:12:43 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
I like it

me too

I'm a Jeep guy, so I don't mind un-aerodynamic design. My windshield has about a .5 degree rake (when I actually have up it).

You guys think this is fugly too? It doesn't look like a bar of melted soap either.

ETA: I like this Brono too:

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:15:36 AM EDT

[#20]

Around here, most people who drive high end SUV's don't use their rear view mirrors, it's good to see that Ford now recognizes this and has removed them.

-Gator

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:16:33 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Looks like an armored truck

Thats what I thought. I would buy it if it was though.

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:16:38 AM EDT

[#22]

What is that thing on the back door?

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:17:54 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
What is that thing on the back door?

The prop

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:22:49 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
What is that thing on the back door?

Beer tap?

ETA: Full LCD on inside tailgate? Odd.

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:24:01 AM EDT

[#25]

You all are just Jealous....

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:24:14 AM EDT

[#26]

They call that thing a SYNUS?

I've blown better looking things out of my SINUSES!

CJ

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:26:20 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Looks like an armored truck

+1 from a Sci-Fi movie.

+2 A Honda Element crossed with a Brink's truck...

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:27:06 AM EDT

[#28]

It was inspired by an armored car, designed for those of us living in urban pits:

Taking its inspiration from bank vaults and armoured cars, this concept's exterior design immediately communicates that it takes security seriously.

When parked and placed in secure mode, Synus deploys protective shutters over the windshield and side glass.

Small windows on the flanks and roof are non-opening and bullet-resistant. The rear hatch has no window at all.

The Synus concept also signals security through its use of a driver-side dial operated combination lock on the B-pillar.

The rear hatch is operated via a vault-style four-spoke spinner. Flat glass in a slightly raked windshield furthers the armoured-car look of this concept.

Inviting inside

Innovative front seats are identically shaped and padded on both the front and rear faces. Each seatback can slide from back to front, allowing one or both of the front seat occupants to face rearward.

This arrangement could turn the Synus into a conversation pit, allowing for personal interaction between front and rear occupants. While the rear seat can accommodate two passengers, it also can fold flat to become a cargo area.

And to make the interior even more accommodating and spacious, the steering wheel folds away under the dash.

It also features a gigantic widescreen liquid crystal display in the tailgate. The largest flat screen LCD yet mounted in a vehicle, it offers a choice of internet surfing, movie viewing, or, via, cameras, watching what's going on outside the vehicle.

In motion, the display works with the cameras to function as the vehicle's rear window: by looking in the rearview mirror the driver can sees a high-definition closed-circuit image of the rearward view.

The powertrain of the Synus is taken from the Mondeo sedan. The engine is a turbocharged, intercooled 2.0-liter, four-cylinder Duratorq diesel engine with 98 kW.

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:28:21 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
I like it

+1

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:28:52 AM EDT

[#30]

If it had a slot in the top it would make a cute coin bank for my dresser

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:35:42 AM EDT

[#31]

Coming soon to a rap video near you.

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:35:59 AM EDT

[#32]

How much extra $ for the gun turret and the rocket pods?

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:41:34 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
And when you thought the Sision had the market on ugly vehicles, along comes Ford with this little crapper. I know it’s a concept, but they usually portend to design cues of future models…

www.blueovalnews.com/images_temp/SYNUSconcept.jpg

www.theautochannel.com/N/F/news/2005/01/07/001698.3-lg.jpg

www.theautochannel.com/N/F/news/2005/01/07/001698.1-lg.jpg

That is an awesome truck. Finally, someone designs one with a little style.

(Full disclosure: I am a Scion Xb owner)

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:42:23 AM EDT

[#34]

I hear the Philip's commercial music in the background..with some skanky tatted girl dancing in the front seat.

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:50:48 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Looks like an armored truck

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Posted: 1/9/2005 9:55:04 AM EDT

[#36]

Hang some gun racks in the back. Lock in some ARs, a JBL shottie, a couple of .45s, some ammo cans all loaded up. Paint it camo, throw some 50 cal emptys on the dash and go cruizin to your fav shootin spot. Leave lots of extra time for traffic stops and attd searches.

Posted: 1/9/2005 10:33:19 AM EDT

[#37]

Looks like a refrigerator on wheels. The spawn of a Honda Element and Pontiac Aztec

Posted: 1/9/2005 10:42:57 AM EDT

[#38]

I think that thing is fuckin awesome. Cameras all over. Shields go up to cover the windows. Fuckin bad ass.

Posted: 1/9/2005 10:43:18 AM EDT

[#39]

I dunno... put a Striker 40 on a pintle in the back, and it'd look sweet!
Hell, I'd even settle for a minigun.

Posted: 1/9/2005 10:46:36 AM EDT

[#40]

The design was for an ugly outside, and a nice warm inside. I like it. Too bad it has under 120 horses. Kind of defeats the purpose of the car.

Posted: 1/9/2005 11:28:32 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Taking its inspiration from bank vaults and armoured cars, this concept's exterior design immediately communicates that it takes security seriously.

Oh this will be THE thug-mobile if it comes out.

Are they serious?????

Posted: 1/9/2005 11:31:46 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Taking its inspiration from bank vaults and armoured cars, this concept's exterior design immediately communicates that it takes security seriously.

Oh this will be THE thug-mobile if it comes out.

Are they serious?????

50cent and Jay-Z have theirs on order.

Posted: 1/9/2005 11:32:47 AM EDT

[#43]

Bullet proof windows?

CRC

Posted: 1/9/2005 11:56:28 AM EDT

[#44]

Looks like a "Panic Room" on wheels.

Posted: 1/9/2005 12:05:16 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Around here, most people who drive high end SUV's don't use their rear view mirrors, it's good to see that Ford now recognizes this and has removed them.

-Gator

Good point.

I don't mind the over-square designs. I'm sick of the rounded look. But I drive a Jeep Cherokee.

Now the new Durango, THERE"S an ugly SUV.

Posted: 1/9/2005 12:08:21 PM EDT

[#46]

Cross between a Scion and an H2....both of which are hideous and driven by assholes who can't park.

ETA: Just saw this...

Around here, most people who drive high end SUV's don't use their rear view mirrors, it's good to see that Ford now recognizes this and has removed them.

-Gator

Posted: 1/9/2005 12:08:22 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Looks like a "Panic Room" on wheels.

Sign of the times.

We used to drive around in big assed convertibles and now it's gonna be enviromentally friendly armored cars to keep the big-bad world from hurting us.