No passenger car, light truck, or SUV manufactured or imported into the USA should weigh over 3,800 lbs or get less than 24 MPG city and 30 MPG HWY. Special commercial vehicle permits and driver licenses should be required to get heavier, less efficient work vehicles.

I would be redesign the Flex and all Ford vehicles to meet these targets. The Flex would need improved aerodynamics(looks like a brick), lighter materials, and either a turbo diesel or direct-inject gas engine…small engines with big transmissions. The Flex functionality looks great for a family, but it is old tech cast at $2/gal gas.

Also, if Ford keeps putting chrome and sparkle on their new designs they way they are doing, I think we are headed for a chrome shortage in 2010, you might not see any chrome on any other cars/trucks because there won’t be enough. I guess the best way to disguise an ugly hooker is with makeup, right? Forget quality, just baffle them with looks, some chrome, keep the ugly-ass blue oval with the Model T logo from 100 years ago while your at it, makes for a wonderful combination. Do these design guys at Ford have a pulse???

Definitely aimed at the xB…. maybe a little too directly. Ford arrives to the party, late as usual.

I really don’t think you can call the Flex a crossover. It’s simply too big. Crossovers tend to be based on car platforms. Take the new VW Tiguan for example, it’s bred from a GTI and performs more like a car than an SUV.

Eric, focus on the grille and front lights…you WILL see a Range Rover Sport, not surprising since Ford owned Land Rover until recently.

How the hell would that remind you of a RANGE ROVER SPORT! it looks nothing like it, that has to be the most retarded comment on here! thats why you dont evaluate cars for a living. That thing doesnt look like any other vehicle at all, especially an XB are you guys sure were looking at the same vehicle. It looks like its own GOOFY design!

Did someone say BMW Mini Clubman?

08 xB (toyota rumion) and land rover had a kid! I think this odd offspring is also my xB’s bigger cousin. To top it all off (literally) the white roof is very FJ’ish.

that thing sucks
ford needs to get a life