Build It, Ford. Build It Now.

Behold, Ford's rear-wheel drive concept car from 2007: the Ford Interceptor.

Now, I'll admit, it's not the most beautiful car in the world. Actually, it looks like someone may have dropped the clay model on its nose and they decided that they liked the squashed look.

Even still, this is a design that just works. It's not a rolling piece of sculpture like an old Jag, or even a new, modern, angled design like what Cadillac's doing. It's a new interpretation on the muscle cars of the '60s.

It's power, stamped in metal.
The front end is like a locomotive: blunt, wide, and terrifying to see bearing down on you at around a 100mph. However, if it looks somewhat familiar it's because almost all Ford cars have a very similar grill.

They're just much, much shinier.

The rear end is actually one of the nicest parts of the car.
The rear is just as sawed off as the front. But, it's cleaner. There's just a chrome line running the width of the car, and two large, but simple, taillights.

The interior's simple too. But that doesn't mean it's not a nice place.
It's black leather, with metal trim. Real metal, mind you, not the face plastic junk that used to be in a lot of cars. Granted, if they ever built it (which they should) that would change. But it just looks so nice.

And yes, the headrests are mounted to the roof.

Now, in case you didn't notice it, that is a manual shifter sitting in the console. To go with the Interceptor's 5.0L V8, Ford put in a 6-speed manual transmission. Why?

Because the RWD sport sedan is a very popular market segment. All the German companies, even Porsche now, have sport sedans. The British have them. The Japanese (except Honda) have have them with their luxury marques.

Ford doesn't.

Well, technically, they do. But the Crown Victoria and its multiple offshoots don't count. The chassis that they're built on is 30 years old, and the car hasn't been updated since 1998. It's ancient and valuable only to cabbies.

Ford needs to build this, they need a RWD sedan. This is a viable option, if they could just find the time and money. But mostly the money.
Make a Lincoln version of this and all will be well in the world.

All they have to do is just tweak the design a little, and make it a little prettier, a little curvier, for the average consumer.

But they have to keep the engine. It has 400hp on tap. That definitely makes overdrive necessary.