CORPORATE HOT ROD; Ford 427 show car reveals a glimpse of Detroit's new direction.(Product/Service Evaluation)

Byline: DUTCH MANDEL Take a look at the Ford 427 concept and ask yourself whether this can be considered the ultimate tuner car. Though it is a clean sheet of computer drafting screen attached to a thick corporate wallet and a bigmuthamotor for a sound so incredibly seductive it makes your legs quake, there is more to 427 than that. Underneath its massive, hydraulically actuated hood, saturated in its every slab-sided molecule, lies the essence of Detroit Big Iron, tuned and polished to a stark cultural glow. If this doesn't represent an expression of what's right with America, ...