I'm saving up to buy one. :3 Just awesome.

I'm trying to like it but I can't :( Its just a Lincoln LS with some slight upgrades. I miss the 10th gen (1989-97)Thunderbird for some reason lol Also, you need to remember that the GTO was just a rebadged Holden Monaro. The 2 problems with that car was it took to long to import to the US so it looked dated and conservative and the slated price of 25K ballooned to almost 34K due to a strong Aus dollar. But hey, it later returned as the G8, which was a awesome car and now it's coming back once again as the Chevrolet SS (Should have been a new Monte Carlo) :P

Why The Neo THunderbird died:
*Tiny: a marque that for decades was a reliable, sporty five-seater coupe' with a big-ass trunk was reintroduced as a boutique two-seat roadster with lux-car manners--which was what the First-Gen T-Birds actually were, but the two-plus-two option was put in during Gen 2 and Ford never looked back.
*SUVs: much more profitable to produce, the trucks-in-station-wagon-drag needed the assembly lines that the the lux coupe's were taking up. T-Bird, Cougar and Lincoln's Continental Mark; Buick's Riviera; Chrysler's leBaron lineup: all these small and relatively useless cars were impeding the Big Three from cranking out more of the do-all and carry-all SUVs that were outselling everything else by easy double-digits. The ax had to fall.
*Price and Boutique Status: Ford wanted this final T-Bird to be bought up by collectors and chic folks. As metioned above, the marque went from being a popular and sporty family coupe' with a V8 to a ritzy toymobile with the lofty price to match.

Non-sposrts-car Coupe's are a dying breed nowadays. Indeed, out of the Big Three only Chrysler still offers a convertible two-door. Even Toyota ceased production on their scrumptous Solara coupe', and Nissan's Altima two-door will not be coming back.

I had a 1995 V-8 T-Bird for 4 years, it was a good car, but I tried to sit in one of these new T-birds and I couldn't fit! It was too small.

I also remember it getting lots of disappointing reviews too.

That's a very nice car.

So this was what my Dad and i saw one afternoon last summer... followed a few cars later by a 1950-something T-Bird! Now how unlikely was that?!

Oh, and another time last summer we saw an old Ford Mustang (1960s) followed immediately by a brand-new Mustang! Or maybe the old one was following the new one. But it was one right after the other. Talk about coincidence, eh?

How about a 1959 and two 1960 Cadillac Eldorado convertables one after the other?

Wow, that's something!

And yesterday I saw a 1958 Cadillac while driving home from work and a bunch of Ford Model As & Ts in a motel carpark in town.

This is the time of year when all of the classic cars are out and about.

You're Australian, aren't you? Because here in the northern hemisphere (especially as far north as Wisconsin, USA), nobody has their classic cars out now. It's winter here.

New Zealand.

Classic cars are a reasonably common sight in the Bay of Plenty year round due to the mild winters here but this is the time of year when most of the shows are on so a lot of the rarer cars start getting out and about at this time of year.

This is about as close as snow gets to us each year.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2363049/

I loved it when Cheryl showed it to me last week :)

People keep talking about how the retro-bird "died off" or that "Ford could have saved it if they did X to it" or whatnot."

The fact of the matter is, it was supposed to be an instant classic, limited run collector car. They ran it for 3 years, an ended it on the 50th anniversary of the first T-bird. They didn't want it to become too mass market, to be honest. It was their halo car. It wasn't made to be sold and make a profit. It was made to be a shiny "spokes-car" for Ford to bring you into the dealership so you'd buy something else.

When they stopped making it, it was also because they brought out the Ford GT to be the halo car. Then when they stopped making the very desirable and limited production GT, they brought out the GT500 as the halo car.



Did it work as an instant collector car? A classic car before it's legally called such?

Heck yeah it did. Have you seen the price these things go for nowadays? A car that is 8-10 years old, and still selling for half original MSRP or more! That is an unheard of retention of value, at the low point of any "investment car" price by age.

I love them, and I can't wait for Ford to resurrect the nameplate. I used to own an 87 turbo bird and it was brilliant. Best car I drove until I got my Miata.

Actually everything I ever read about it, they intended on running it for much longer and through the production of the GT. Sales declined so sharply in 2004 they decided it was time to end production before it they started losing money. Probably the smartest thing Ford could have done considering so many times companies did lose money on failing models.

You're right it was an instant classic because they meant it to be. But you can't mask the decline in sales that was at least a major factor in its ultimate demise earlier than they had wanted.

there okay but they were kinda ugly when they first came out i think if they worked on the look and the stuff they made them out of i think it would have been a better car.

this was a nice even though it lacked good handling.

i want to see the back

Unfortunately I couldn't get a decent shot of it because of the old Studebaker directly behind it. But I can assure you that had you seen it from the back first you would have thought it was an old 55.

thats why i wanted to see the back , looks like its a nice custom design

One of my favorite cars, I saw one parking and it was so pretty iRl, was a red one,