I was recently invited down to Ford of Canada's Oakville headquarters to take a closer look at their 2009 Ford Flex, a vehicle which will be manufactured in their Oakville assembly plant, and should be available sometime in the summer of 2008.
Yes, the vehicle which started out life as the Ford Fairlane concept model and wowed visitors to the 2005 Detroit auto show has now been declared a future production vehicle.
Ford is calling this vehicle their new "crossover". This appears to be the buzz word of the industry today, which is why I decided to look the word up in Webster's online dictionary and find out exactly what it means.
This is what I discovered...
Crossover:
Noun: The interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.
Now, I don't know about you, but that makes things as clear as mud to me.
There had to be a better definition, and so I consulted the Oxford English Dictionary
Crossover:
Noun: 1. a point or place of crossing. 2. the production of work or achieving of success in a new field or style, especially in popular music.
Ah yes, "Achieving of success in a new field or style", that starts to make more sense. Although, as every new model brought to market differs in style from its predecessors, are all new models therefore "crossovers"?
Or, only if they're "successful"?
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| The Ford Flex is based on the Ford Fairlane concept that was unveiled at the 2005 Detroit Auto Show. |
Yes, the vehicle which started out life as the Ford Fairlane concept model and wowed visitors to the 2005 Detroit auto show has now been declared a future production vehicle.
Ford is calling this vehicle their new "crossover". This appears to be the buzz word of the industry today, which is why I decided to look the word up in Webster's online dictionary and find out exactly what it means.
This is what I discovered...
Crossover:
Noun: The interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.
Now, I don't know about you, but that makes things as clear as mud to me.
There had to be a better definition, and so I consulted the Oxford English Dictionary
Crossover:
Noun: 1. a point or place of crossing. 2. the production of work or achieving of success in a new field or style, especially in popular music.
Ah yes, "Achieving of success in a new field or style", that starts to make more sense. Although, as every new model brought to market differs in style from its predecessors, are all new models therefore "crossovers"?
Or, only if they're "successful"?
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| The rear glass roof allows for extra light and adds to the roomy feel of the vehicle. |