Ford SYNus

The Ford SYNus was a concept car produced by Ford, with exterior design by the Spanish designer Jose Paris and interior design by Joe Baker, that debuted at the 2005 North American International Auto Show. Its name, pronounced sin you ehs, joins synthesis of a tough exterior and a soft interior with US for Urban Sanctuary, and also sounds like sinuous. The design mimicked an armadillo and drew on modern bank vaults, with bullet resistant windows and frame, no rear window and a video feed on a large LCD monitor, and a lockdown mode that closed steel shutters over the glass and lights and let the seats turn rearward. It shared its powertrain design with the Ford Mondeo, a turbocharged 2.0 litre Duratorq TDCi diesel making 134 horsepower with a five speed manual gearbox, and it carried a wireless LAN hub.