The new Thunderbird features design aspects of the original 1955 car, the 1962 car, and some other, earlier Thunderbirds, but Ford doesn't talk about this car in terms of "retro" design because it has so much modern equipment in it, on it and underneath it.The exterior design is extremely smooth, to the eye at least, but the wind tunnel says it has a drag coefficient of 0.38, which is quite high these days when a Mercedes sedan cheats the wind with a rating of 0.28.
The trunk is big enough, despite the small numbers (6.9 cubic feet) to carry two golf bags, but that's about it. This car is made for what Ford calls "relaxed sportiness," a term we translate into "cruising." It's sporty looking, it's rear-wheel drive, but it is not a sports car by any stretch of the imagination.
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