Filed under:Ford, American, Coupes, Two concept studies for a modern day Interceptor were revealed by Ford's local division in partnership with Top Gear Australia magazine. This presentation comes thirty years after the movie Mad Max in which Mel Gibson gave all his best and transformed the jet-black Ford Falcon XB GT351 coupe-based Interceptor into movie icons. Todd Willing was the chief designer of passenger cars for the Asia, Pacific and Africa region, who led the group of designers formed by the company. The team's task was not easy as they had to create several studies that were aimed to pay a tribute to the styling cues from the original XB Coupe Interceptor. In the ned, only two of them managed to make the cut and were penned by Simon Brook and Nima Nourian. Chris Svensson, who is Ford's Australia Melbourne-based Asia, Pacific and Australia Design Director, stated that the entire team could not be more pleased to get involved in the project and they had approached it with great enthusiasm. He added that even those who were too young to remember the Mad Max movie, were extremely delighted. A special screening of the original movie was necessary so that they could understand it and the next phase of the project implies the readers of the Top Gear Australia magazine who will have the chance to vote the design that they would like to be turned into a scale model, which will make its world debut later this year. Nima Nourian commented on his design and confessed that he did his best to pay a tribute to the original 1979 Interceptor while looking into the future. Hard task, one might say. His wish was to take one step further some great scenes from the first movie with high-speed chases and clashes with the bad guys. Thus, an industrial strength taser that will zap cars dead and out of the way, replaced the weapons and the machine guns. Simon Brook's intentions were to take styling cues from today's FG Falcon series, featuring touches from the original Interceptor, willing to maintain it aerodynamic and clean in its essence, but, at the same time, tough and brutal. Brook also stated that the wheel's inner spokes on his design would pop out and start ripping up other cars during high-speed pursuits. There is a fair chance that we might see the winning concept on the big screen as George Miller is preparing a fourth installment of the Mad Max franchise called "Mad Max 4: Fury Road".
Two concept studies for a modern day Interceptor were revealed by Ford's local division in partnership with Top Gear Australia magazine. This presentation comes thirty years after the movie Mad Max in which Mel Gibson gave all his best and transformed the jet-black Ford Falcon XB GT351 coupe-based Interceptor into movie icons. Todd Willing was the chief designer of passenger cars for the Asia, Pacific and Africa region, who led the group of designers formed by the company. The team's task was not easy as they had to create several studies that were aimed to pay a tribute to the styling cues from the original XB Coupe Interceptor. In the ned, only two of them managed to make the cut and were penned by Simon Brook and Nima Nourian. Chris Svensson, who is Ford's Australia Melbourne-based Asia, Pacific and Australia Design Director, stated that the entire team could not be more pleased to get involved in the project and they had approached it with great enthusiasm. He added that even those who were too young to remember the Mad Max movie, were extremely delighted. A special screening of the original movie was necessary so that they could understand it and the next phase of the project implies the readers of the Top Gear Australia magazine who will have the chance to vote the design that they would like to be turned into a scale model, which will make its world debut later this year. Nima Nourian commented on his design and confessed that he did his best to pay a tribute to the original 1979 Interceptor while looking into the future. Hard task, one might say. His wish was to take one step further some great scenes from the first movie with high-speed chases and clashes with the bad guys. Thus, an industrial strength taser that will zap cars dead and out of the way, replaced the weapons and the machine guns. Simon Brook's intentions were to take styling cues from today's FG Falcon series, featuring touches from the original Interceptor, willing to maintain it aerodynamic and clean in its essence, but, at the same time, tough and brutal.