Whats everyones thoughts regarding the BA XR8 bonnet? Is it just me or does it look like a ugly swollen prostate on the front of the car? I think if they made the hump go all the way back to the windscreen it would look much better, anyone agree? From the front it looks good, but from the side it makes me wanna puke.
i love it. i think it looks great. Really they had no choice either, they had to put it on. I thought maybe a bigger one would have looked better but this just looks pure horn, espcially on the GT. Thats my opinion.
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donuts i think it is just you i think it looks great
not to big & not to small
when you drive a V8 the bulge is not to obtrusive if it came all the way to the rear edge of the bonnet it would impead your vision & if it was any smaller it would look like a 6cyl cortina
Whats everyones thoughts regarding the BA XR8 bonnet? Is it just me or does it look like a ugly swollen prostate on the front of the car? I think if they made the hump go all the way back to the windscreen it would look much better, anyone agree? From the front it looks good, but from the side it makes me wanna puke.
Be happy they changed it from the small bump they had orginally planned...
If you went to the motor show and picked up brochures or signed up with ford to recieve information regarding the then "upcomming" XR8, you'd see that the bump was narrow and just over the inlet manifold... wasnt like a V that it is now... looked really crappy...!!
As for me, every time I look out the windscreen, its like a friendly reminder, I'm in a MUSCLE CAR!!
Whats everyones thoughts regarding the BA XR8 bonnet? Is it just me or does it look like a ugly swollen prostate on the front of the car? I think if they made the hump go all the way back to the windscreen it would look much better, anyone agree? From the front it looks good, but from the side it makes me wanna puke.
After only ever driving a 1.3 ltr Daihatsu Charade, I also get a lump in my pants every time I put my foot down in our new BA XR6, but being a girl, probably not the same one you get!
After only ever driving a 1.3 ltr Daihatsu Charade, I also get a lump in my pants every time I put my foot down in our new BA XR6, but being a girl, probably not the same one you get!
as a holden owner I'd have to say this
from outside the car, I don't know what all the fuss is about.
BUT from inside, looking out over the bulge, I love it....
(this from a test drive I took one on,, went pretty good, over 140k around a left hand up hill sweeper with t/c going off with only 60 odd on the clock,,hehehe.. I wonder who the eventual owner of that one will be.
Okay boys it looks like I need to provide some proof of my claims because I have a lot of critics so I've done a 5 second fix of the XR8 bonnet in paintshop. Here is the original... fordheads XR8... a beaut car and all.. but still with that ugly looking piece of lump at the front.
Whats everyones thoughts regarding the BA XR8 bonnet? Is it just me or does it look like a ugly swollen prostate on the front of the car? I think if they made the hump go all the way back to the windscreen it would look much better, anyone agree? From the front it looks good, but from the side it makes me wanna puke.
I think the bulge looks great on the XR8. I would like to see some differentiation between XR8 / GT bonnet though.
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