Thread: Porsche 928
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Porkie
Interesting fact.... you know the nasty wank extra bit of metal in the rear window of an XR4i... well I seem to remember hearing somewhere that the Ford designers added that to ape the shape of the 928 and add some glamour to the Dagenham jellymold shape that is the Sierra.

I of course may have dreamt that.... or could have been halucinating even!
Totally true. Ford had an ex Porsche designer, who also did the clover leaf alloys a-la porsche, and the propshaft design on the RS1700t which was almost an exact copy of a Porsche one ( cant remember model )
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