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Were it not for a few obviously addled Ford engineers in the late'60s, North America might have two sports car icons instead of one. After all, the early Thunderbird was every bit as curvaceous and sexy - some would say more so - as Chevy's Corvette. Neither, in their original guise, was a roadburner, and if the movie American Graffiti is any indication, the Thunderbird actually had more cachet than the `Vette.
Unfortunately, somebody at Ford decided that bloated, porky and slow was what America wanted in an automobile and we got a four-door Thunderbird. Chevrolet got a free ride to sports car immortality.
Almost half a century later, Ford is trying to set things straight. The Thunderbird is back, and even if it is based on the Lincoln LS sedan, this one looks much more like the lithe original. It's a two-door, has only two...