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Unfortunately, unlike GM, Stellantis, or 99% of the Asian competitors, the Ford Motor Company doesn't have a four-door sedan left in the family, neither at Lincoln nor at the namesake Ford brand. However, there are virtually zero chances of one coming back to America from the defunct Mercury division, right? "Well, hold my beer," said one member of the imaginative realm of digital car content creators.
General Motors still has the affordable $25k Chevrolet Malibu mid-size sedan in the range. At the same time, Dodge prepares to start production of the full-size eighth-generation 2025 Charger Daytona and Sixpack four-door saloon alongside the traditional fastback coupe body style. As for the Asians, do we need to go past the best-selling Toyota Camry, new for the 2025 model year, or the Honda Accord runner-up into Nissan Altima, Subaru Legacy, Kia K5 (and others) territory?
Anyway, it has been a while since Ford completely ditched the passenger car format in North America, leaving the S550 and now its S650 follow-up Ford Mustang as the sole survivor. The Ford Fusion, for example, was discontinued after the 2020MY of the second generation, and the Blue Oval never looked back. At least at home in the United States because the fifth-generation Ford Mondeo cousin still thrives in China, and the Ford Taurus is also marketed in the Middle East.
As such, some Americans might feel robbed of the occasion to drive a FoMoCo sedan in 2024. No worries, at least across Imagination Land, there's a new-old chance to change that. Meet Jim, a virtual artist better known as jlord8 on social media, who loves messing around with all things CGI from the automotive realm; and now he dreams of a Ford Mystique based on the Fusion that was sold in the States. So, while the front fascia Mercury-style treatment and the large alloy wheels feel like they were created during the 2020s, the rest of the car and the general atmosphere make us believe the 1990s are all over us, again, complete with buddy cop TV movies featuring these sedans chasing bad guys all over town.
While it's pretty obvious that Ford would never reinstate a model that was created more than a decade ago, and there's an even higher improbability that the brand would bring it back to revive a defunct brand that has been dormant since 2011 like Mercury, the pixel master's fans aren't bothered with the old school looks of his creation. Instead, they lament the fact that Ford Motor Company completely abandoned the passenger car segment of mid-to-large family sedans. In fact, someone even worked out the best powertrain for such an unlikely revival – a V6 EcoBoost coupled with one or two electric motors from the Mustang Mach-E to create a powerful PHEV arrangement.
Anyway, it has been a while since Ford completely ditched the passenger car format in North America, leaving the S550 and now its S650 follow-up Ford Mustang as the sole survivor. The Ford Fusion, for example, was discontinued after the 2020MY of the second generation, and the Blue Oval never looked back. At least at home in the United States because the fifth-generation Ford Mondeo cousin still thrives in China, and the Ford Taurus is also marketed in the Middle East.
As such, some Americans might feel robbed of the occasion to drive a FoMoCo sedan in 2024. No worries, at least across Imagination Land, there's a new-old chance to change that. Meet Jim, a virtual artist better known as jlord8 on social media, who loves messing around with all things CGI from the automotive realm; and now he dreams of a Ford Mystique based on the Fusion that was sold in the States. So, while the front fascia Mercury-style treatment and the large alloy wheels feel like they were created during the 2020s, the rest of the car and the general atmosphere make us believe the 1990s are all over us, again, complete with buddy cop TV movies featuring these sedans chasing bad guys all over town.
While it's pretty obvious that Ford would never reinstate a model that was created more than a decade ago, and there's an even higher improbability that the brand would bring it back to revive a defunct brand that has been dormant since 2011 like Mercury, the pixel master's fans aren't bothered with the old school looks of his creation. Instead, they lament the fact that Ford Motor Company completely abandoned the passenger car segment of mid-to-large family sedans. In fact, someone even worked out the best powertrain for such an unlikely revival – a V6 EcoBoost coupled with one or two electric motors from the Mustang Mach-E to create a powerful PHEV arrangement.
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