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Old 07-06-2009, 01:58 AM   #1
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Default Yanks stole our Barra taillights..

2009 USDM Focus. These look familiar?





Look like a mix of BA/BF taillights with the clear FG highlights. Can't ford US come up with their own taillight designs, instead of copying a 6 yr old Aussie design : Pity the rest of the car looks crap.

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Old 07-06-2009, 02:01 AM   #2
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haha, am i seeing things or can you see the wires in the light?
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Old 07-06-2009, 02:46 AM   #3
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Yeah they look familiar.

Mate they have been doing it for years.

They copied our WB Statesman too.

It was called a Cadillac over there.

Only heaps bigger.

And 5 years earlier.
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Old 07-06-2009, 03:17 AM   #4
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Yeah they look familiar.

Mate they have been doing it for years.

They copied our WB Statesman too.

It was called a Cadillac over there.

Only heaps bigger.

And 5 years earlier.
they coppied us 5 years before or car was released
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Old 07-06-2009, 10:16 AM   #5
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Mate they have been doing it for years.

They copied our WB Statesman too.

It was called a Cadillac over there.

Only heaps bigger.

And 5 years earlier.

they coppied us 5 years before or car was released
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they coppied us 5 years before or car was released
I think he was being sarcastic as most of our cars are yank or euro rip-offs.
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Old 08-06-2009, 01:19 AM   #6
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haha, am i seeing things or can you see the wires in the light?

Yes, you are seeing things.


Last year Ford sold 196,000 of those "hideous" cars. It has a love it or hate it reception. It was designed on the previous US Focus chassis so redesign was limited. It was done to get a different looking Focus from the previous model, an outdated American revamp of an older Euro one.

Next model will be the lastest global redesign. Should be much better then.


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Old 07-06-2009, 04:06 AM   #7
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well guys it is ford usa thay can do what thay want thay do own ford aust then
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well guys it is ford usa thay can do what thay want thay do own ford aust then

They shouldnt have just stopped with copying the taillights, that american excuse of a front end should have looked like this: :

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Old 07-06-2009, 09:53 AM   #9
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Sorry, but the Audi A6 had those lights first

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God damn that Focus is ugly, or is it me. Then again our Focus aint much better.

And XR6Martin is dead right, the BA is a rip off from Audi.
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Old 07-06-2009, 11:09 AM   #11
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God damn that Focus is ugly, or is it me. Then again our Focus aint much better.

And XR6Martin is dead right, the BA is a rip off from Audi.
Our BA looks 10x better than that Audi. And yes, the Focus is an absolutely terrible looking car with half decent BA taillight copies.
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Old 07-06-2009, 10:00 AM   #12
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the audi lights look totally different.

anyone else realise the ba lights are ptetty much the au lights without the corners? more noticable at night

so the lights have been with the falcon for about 11 years now
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Old 07-06-2009, 06:17 PM   #13
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anyone else realise the ba lights are ptetty much the au lights without the corners? more noticable at night
Well the BA was a facelift of the AU so that makes sense to me.
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Old 07-06-2009, 10:31 AM   #14
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That puts the Chinese to shame. What appalls me is that it looks horrible too.

XR6 Martin, you're right, BA's designer's did say they wanted an "Audi" look. But I must agree with Ross-b as well, the BA's rear lights do have some of the AU's rear lights in them. A bit of both I suppose, but importantly it looks coherent, unlike the US Focus.
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Old 07-06-2009, 11:24 AM   #15
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2009 USDM Focus. These look familiar?





Look like a mix of BA/BF taillights with the clear FG highlights. Can't ford US come up with their own taillight designs, instead of copying a 6 yr old Aussie design : Pity the rest of the car looks crap.
i does look a bit strange ...the design room must have been out of idea`s, i can hear them "hey fred look at this aussie car... we can tac the rear end on to our new focus"
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Old 07-06-2009, 12:02 PM   #16
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Im all for supporting ford...but thats on terribad looking car.
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Old 07-06-2009, 06:43 PM   #17
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

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anyone else realise the ba lights are ptetty much the au lights without the corners?
The BA is the opposite of the AU - everything square on the AU has been rounded, everything round on the AU has been squared. Thats why the BA looks so pleasingly generically boring and the AU difficult to take by the straight-and-narrow person. As they say, only dead fish follow the stream.
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Old 07-06-2009, 10:38 PM   #18
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

The BA is the opposite of the AU - everything square on the AU has been rounded, everything round on the AU has been squared. Thats why the BA looks so pleasingly generically boring and the AU difficult to take by the straight-and-narrow person. As they say, only dead fish follow the stream.

i was defiantly talking about tail lights not the car, agreed tho.


i dont see the point of ur comment?

if you dont believe me get an au and a bf of the same dark colour at night turn on lights and try and spot the difference.

or as you pointed out (sorta) square up the round part of the au lights and u have ba. and there you have it the same basic tail light, 1 sound with a corner and one thats more square
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Can't believe the amount of cry babies on this forum. It's a whinge-fest.
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Old 08-06-2009, 02:46 PM   #20
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we have been using F series tail lights in our utes for years so cant see the issue with lending them a set of sedan lights.
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