While car buffs bemoan the shutdown of automakers around the world to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, there's not much news of future models rolling out. That ain't happening anytime soon, so a lot of gearhead minds are wandering elsewhere. And what better place to look then in the past at some of the wildest concept cars to ever come out of Detroit. Case in point is this 2007 Ford Interceptor Concept. Let's check it out.

One Mean-Looking Sedan

2007 Ford Interceptor concept car promotion image
Car Connection

One direction that has aficionados pining are towards concept cars that made sense at the design stage, but for one reason or another didn't make it into production. In particular, the 2007 Ford Interceptor is on the list of many folks who would have loved to have seen this machine hit the street.

Halfway through the first decade of this century, sedans were the top-selling vehicles, at a time when sports cars were deemed unaffordable and trucks and SUVs weren't worth the gas mileage to consider buying. The Interceptor's design was inspired by the muscle cars of the past but was more rounded in design with a sleek wraparound grille with headlights tucked into horizontal slits.

Like A Marine In Dress Uniform

2007 Ford Interceptor concept car passing through sign museum in Las Vegas
Cnet

Ford Design Director, Peter Horbury, had the muscle car idea in mind but wanted to roll out something that also had a classier appearance.

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“The Interceptor concept is much like a Marine in dress uniform,” said Horbury when the car made its appearance at the Detroit Motor Show in 2007. “He looks smart and elegant but you can see the raw power that lies beneath.”

That Marine look also had a take-no-prisoners approach to power, especially when the five-liter, 400 horsepower engine revved up with a six-speed automatic designed to leave other sedans in the dust.

Intercepted By The Likes Of Taurus

2007 Ford Interceptor concept car rear view
Via Cnet

But eventually, the Interceptor hit the dust even before it made it out of the factory. It's been suggested that Ford wanted to play it safe and not stick its neck out too far when it came to building sedans. One of Ford's most popular sedans, the Taurus, ironically stopped production in March 2019 so the company could move further into building more trucks.

Source: CNet, The Car Connection, USA Today

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