American Statue finalists group with Ford designers to emanate their own Fiestas
In box you hadn’t beheld, Fox’s hit show American Statue is back in full swing, as well as this is a first week that the competition has been narrowed down to a top 12 finalists. As you might design, afterwards, it’s tall time that the annual Ford sponsorship of AI goes into high rigging as well.
Each of a Top 12 Idolists teamed up with four of Ford’s brightest up-and-coming designers to come up with their own singular take on the Blue Oval’s well-regarded Fiesta hatchback. Fans of a uncover (or fans of a car, you suppose) can enter a Ford Music Video Challenge once per week from March 17 through May 21, 2010, for a possibility to win asingle of the vehicles you see here and the outing to a set of a Ford Song Video fire. The grand prize winner gets the package that includes a Fiesta with their preference of one of a Tip 12 designs and tickets to a AI finale.
We’ve gallerized the front-three-quarter shot of any contestant’s Ford Fiesta design below. You know, any one of them is only so…. singular… which you can’t utterly impel ourselves into picking a winner. Therefore, we’ve only placed them in alphabetical order by a Idolists’ first names. Feel free to rank them yourselves in the Comments. Full sum upon the Ford Song Video Challenge can be found here, and you can find the central press release after a burst.
Gallery:American Statue Ford Fiesta designs
[Source: Ford]Show full PR textFORD FIESTA, TOP 12 ‘AMERICAN IDOLS’ GET PERSONAL
Ford is adding an sparkling new component to the sponsorship of “American Idol” by giving any of the tip 12 contestants a singular event to work with Ford designers and create their own customized 2011 Ford Fiesta graphicsThis brandnew component will be featured in the video shred in tonight’s episode of “American Idol,” which front at 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET live/PT tape-delayed on FOX; fans will be able to see the Idols’ customized Fiesta designs at www.americanidol.comWith a help of 4 up-and-coming Ford designers, a Top 12 Idols created their own personalized Fiesta theme, regulating tone, custom body graphics, wheel treatments and alterna tive accessories to make a vehicle an expression of any contestant’s personalityMore than 100,000 people have already voiced an seductiveness in a all-new 2011 Ford Fiesta due to the success of the Fiesta Transformation amicable media initiative
DEARBORN, Mich., March 17, 2010 – Ford Engine Association is adding an exciting brandnew element to its sponsorship of the hit radio series “American Statue,” giving the top 12 Idols the unique opportunity to work with Ford designers and create their own personalized 2011 Ford Fiesta.
Tonight’s episode of “American Idol,” which front at 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET live/PT tape-delayed on FOX, will underline this new element in a video segment.
“Ford has been a unite of ‘American Idol’ given the uncover premiered in 2002, and any season you try to take the attribute with a show to the next level in a fun and meaningful approach,” said Connie Fontaine, manager, Ford Brand Calm and Alliances. “This year, the Idols will get the closer knowledge with our vehicles as they correlate with our designers and customize a Fiesta design which reflects their own personality.”
All of the Idols’ Fiestas will be upon arrangement during www.americanidol.com. From March 17 through Might 21, 2010 fans 18 and older can enter a Ford Song Video Challenge weekly for the chance to win asingle of a vehicles and the outing to a set of the Ford Song Video shoot or a grand prize, which includes a Fiesta with their choice of asingle of the Tip 12 designs as well as tickets to the finale. Central rules as well as entrance details have been available at www.americanidol.com/ford/challenge.
“Ford has good young designers who have been bringing fresh thinking to the pr oduct lineup,” pronounced Fontaine. “You hope a pattern integration with ‘American Idol’ will shine the light on the conspicuous bent that is working tirelessly to deliver good products to market.”
“Idolizing” the Ford Fiesta
Ford began the design process by giving any of the top 12 contestants a palette of 9 Fiesta colors to choose from, togetherwith colourful shade s like Orange Fist, Blue Flame and Bright Magenta. So a design group could get to know any contestant on the some-more personal level, the Idols also were given a celebrity consult to fill out with questions like, “What have been a 3 things you have been most ardent about?” and “What do you want your automobile to contend about you?”
Four up-and-coming Ford designers – Dillon Blanski, Gustavo Bizyk, Lesli Ann Agcaoili and Vanguard Carbis – reviewed the questionnaires, traveled to Hollywood to encounter with a Idols, as well as then helped each contestant develop a judgment for his or her personalized Fiesta, regulating t one, law body graphics, circle treatments as well as alternative access ories to transform a vehicle into an expression of each contestant’s individuality.
“You explained to a Idols that a graphics they design will essentially be a pitch of them as well as their life practice,” pronounced Carbis, who many recently served as lead exterior designer for the 2010 Ford Taurus. “They were really vehement to work with us.”
According to Carbis, Tuxedo Black was a popular color preference between the masculine contestants while the girls seemed to favor more clear shades similarto Splendid Magenta as well as Orange Fist. Alittle of the contestants even opted to accessorize their Fiesta with a four-piece 3dCarbon physique pack.
“Some of the Idols have been familiar with striking tuning so they wanted to get a body kit and create some-more of a sports tuner package,” he said.
Not surprisingly, song was a common thesis among a contestants.
“Many of a Idols have been obviously very music-oriented, so you talked a bout receiving an instrument they foolaround or a lyrics to their favorite song and somehow incorporating that into the graphics,” prono unced Blanski, 26, the youngest member of a Ford design team.
Both Carbis and Blanski say they are thrilled to participate in a “American Idol” plan.
“Typically I’m expressing myself by the vehicles I design. Trying to appreciate somebody else’s passion and ideas as well as then assistance them put which into striking form is totally dissimilar from anything I’ve done before,” said Blanski. “It’s the challenge, but it’s also fun.”
2011 Ford Fiesta: A strike before leaving the embankment
Interjection to a success of the Fiesta Movement social media beginning – which has generated more than 6.2 million YouTube views, more than 750,000 Flickr views as well as nearly 4 million Twitter impressions – more than 100,000 people have already expressed an interest in the 2011 Ford Fiesta.
Starting on sale this su mmer, the all-new Fiesta facilities an expressive, colourful pattern, sharp reflexes, as well as a global track record that will redefine U.S. small automobile customers’ expectations. With 15 class-exclusive technologies and a projected best-in-class mainroad fuel economy of 40 mpg, Fiesta brings efficiency as well as preference together in asingle package.
It’s additionally designed to be versatile, personal as well as variable. In actuality, Fiesta is approaching to broach best-in-class convenience as well as connectivity with a segment-exclusive SYNC® voice-activated communications complement, as good as an fluent tone palette as well as accessible graphics.
Ford is formulation most coming as well as functional accessories for a Fiesta, including a lower physique pack by 3dCarbon, a large, sporty back hatchback spoiler brought over from Europe, multiform dissimilar change knobs, and innovative body-side graphics by Original Wraps. A preview of these offerings and some-more is accessible during www.fordvehicles.com/fiesta whilst the graphics can be explored at www.fordfiestagraphics.com. A full Fiesta accessories charity will be available to review as well as squeeze during www.fordaccessories.com when a Fiesta launches this summer.
Already, some-more than 7,000 consumers have done reservations for the Ford Fiesta – half of them from non-Ford customers. Business can begin fixation their order for a new Fiesta today by their local Ford dealer.
