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    Ford Focus Coupé-Cabriolet Ice Sculpture

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    FORD UNVEILS COOLEST CAR AT THE SHOW


    ExCeL, London Docklands, 18 July, 2006 – Ford today celebrates the success of the Ford Focus – the UK's most popular car – with the unveiling of a unique new model sure to melt the hearts of show goers.

    Roelant de Waard, chairman and managing director of Ford of Britain, will today reveal a life-size six-and-a-half-ton sculpture of the new Ford Focus Coupé-Cabriolet – made entirely of ice.

    The ice sculpture, already dubbed the coolest car at the show, has been crafted for the last two weeks by a team of sculptors in a giant freezer – set at a chilly minus 10 deg C. The work took a total of 160 hours, but each shift was limited to just 40 minutes because of the severe cold.

    Specialist carving tools from Japan and North America, including a highly advanced, computer-driven cutting machine, have been used to create the sculpture, which is finely detailed to reflect all the elegance and style of the original.

    The Focus Coupe-Cabriolet sculpture, which is made from 120 separate pieces of crafted ice, was dismantled and then reconstructed on the Ford stand – which was specially reinforced to bear the weight – by a team of 12 specialists.

    Although it weighs more than five real Focus models – it will gradually melt and the 6,500 litres of recycled water will drain away naturally. For those people who can't see the life-size car at the opening of the show, ice-sculpting continues daily on the Ford stand throughout the event, with two sculptors working on models at the S-MAX ice bar.
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    i'd chip the left mirror off and stick it in my drink.
    I'm dropping out to create a company that starts with motorcycles, then cars, and forty years later signs a legendary Brazilian driver who has a public and expensive feud with his French teammate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McLareN
    it will gradually melt
    At the moment it will probably met "gradually" over a period of about 5mins...
    Thanks for all the fish

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    how do you suppose they got the ford badge on the car?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gt4forever
    how do you suppose they got the ford badge on the car?
    sticker. or it could be a real logo with the pointy partswrapped around something that can handle ice.
    fortunatly for the craftsman, the logo guy didn't say, ok just one little tap, SLAM! oops, think i cracked the sculpture.
    I'm dropping out to create a company that starts with motorcycles, then cars, and forty years later signs a legendary Brazilian driver who has a public and expensive feud with his French teammate.

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    how on earth is that gonna stay intact

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    Quote Originally Posted by kingofthering
    sticker. or it could be a real logo with the pointy partswrapped around something that can handle ice.
    fortunatly for the craftsman, the logo guy didn't say, ok just one little tap, SLAM! oops, think i cracked the sculpture.
    lol, you're a character.

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    I bet the platform its sitting on is some type of cooling unit.

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    A piece of garbage to me is still a piece of garbage no matter what alternate form it is for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NSXType-R
    A piece of garbage to me is still a piece of garbage no matter what alternate form it is for me.
    Maybe some melting will solve that by making it look like a kind of squashed Maserati Spyder... sort of...
    Lack of charisma can be fatal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by baddabang
    I bet the platform its sitting on is some type of cooling unit.
    you don't say

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