Een Lincoln neus.
Met neme een deel van de Ford Super Duty en mixt dit met een deel van een Ford Focus Sedan (US-model één), en een een heuse Lincoln neus, wat krijg je dan? Iets wat er voor ons ‘raar’ uit ziet en niemand hier (waarschijnlijk) op zit te wachten totdat dit in de showrooms staat.
Het zijn het meestal de Chinezen die een eigen gezicht geven aan bepaalde modellen, nu valt de beurt aan een Braziliaans bedrijf wat zich ‘Tropical Cabines’ noemt en al meer ‘vreemde ontwerpen’ heeft rondrijden.
In dit geval gaat het om een Ford F-250 Super Duty. Bekijk de video (aan het eind van dit item) van deze creatie en lees er alles over hoe het tot stand gekomen is, want het is nogal een ingrijpende operatie. Het bedrijf is inmiddels gestopt met het maken van dit soort ‘vreemde creaties’.
2007 Ford F-250 Exterior Front Three Quarters Tropiclassic Sedan
Ford Super Duty Sedan Blends An F-250 With A Ford Focus: Video
Pickup truck owners generally understand that there is a compromise involved with owning a vehicle featuring an exposed bed. A bed cap or a tonneau cover can alleviate some of the burden of the body style, but for the most part, there is no true substitute for a factory-enclosed area like a trunk. But as The Drive recently found, a Brazilian company called Tropical Cabines once offered the Ford Super Duty as a sedan by splicing together a Ford F-250 with the rear end of a Ford Focus.
2007 Ford F-250 Exterior Front Three Quarters Tropiclassic Sedan
The extraordinarily bizarre vehicle was called the “Tropiclassic,” and it appears that the company didn’t limit itself to simply converting vehicles like the Ford Super Duty into a sedan. It also transformed pickups into three-row SUVs and also offered custom cab extensions too.
2007 Ford F-250 Exterior Front Three Quarters Tropiclassic Sedan
Overall, the conversions were pretty extensive, as the company apparently stripped the trucks down to a chassis-cab like configuration, then built its own in-house components for the sedan-shaped bodies, presumably using fiberglass.
The customized C and D pillars, along with the rear end surrounding the trunk, actually look quite similar to something like in early 90s Lincoln Continental, if that really specific section is viewed in isolation. Unsurprisingly, the rest of the Tropiclassic looks like a regular Ford Super Duty.
New Ford Explorer Sedan Rendering
De video is uit 2008
That said, the Tropiclassic at least makes sense when once considers its origins. Like most South American countries, Brazil isn’t known for having the highest-quality roads, making body-on-frame trucks and SUVs well-suited for the conditions. However, neither one of those vehicles comes with the elegance of a three-box sedan.
So we imagine that the idea for the Topiclassic was born when someone though to combine the durability and ruggedness of a full-size, body-on-frame pickup truck with the looks of a sedan.
Either way, the above advertisement confirms that the Tropiclassic Ford Super Duty conversion operated like a sedan, with a fully functioning trunk from the first generation Ford Focus. Unfortunately, it seems like the company stopped making them some time ago, but they’ll definitely live on as some of the strangest vehicles to ever exist.
Source | Fordauthority.com
