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Old Nov 26, 2012 | 12:05 PM
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Hello everyone I saw a commercial last night of the new ford Fusion,and it looks and have soo many clues like our XJ and XF.. :
 
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Old Nov 26, 2012 | 12:58 PM
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The current chief designer for Ford vehicles used to work for Aston Martin as well, like Ian Callum.
They are just carrying their history over.
 
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Old Nov 27, 2012 | 03:12 PM
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His twin brother must work at Hyundai..
 
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Old Nov 27, 2012 | 07:44 PM
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Frank M.?
 
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Old Dec 2, 2012 | 06:35 PM
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I believe the Fusion share the same floor pan.

2013 Ford Fusion First Look - Motor Trend

""If you look at the back of a Jaguar XF, which has a similar area, it does not have this panel," Hamilton says. You'll see an offset here of about 60mm. Jaguar used to be our sister company. We know they wanted to do this for the XF, and they couldn't afford to do it."

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https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...tent-xr-67920/
 
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