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Judy Zik @ Nov 23rd 2007 4:27PM
Blah Blah Blah bring it to the US and I will buy a thousand personally oh and Ford sucks. Did I miss anything. Same posts over and over.
Seriously. Get a life folks. I am so sick of reading the same crap. Ford has said they are going to go global with the next Focus and Fusion and they are working on bringing other products over. So they are going to bring a lot of these products over here it just takes time. A company that is struggling for it's survival can't afford to just dump all it's current products and get the modifications and certifications done to bring a whole new line over from Europe overnight.
The reality of the situation is when they do you will all probably be bitching that they are not roomy enough or the engines are not powerful enough since the rest of the world tends to go for smaller more efficient cars. Personally I would love to test drive one of these with a diesel engine.
KnightRider @ Nov 23rd 2007 5:44PM
Is there a sane explanation why they cant bring euro spec Mondeo here? It outsells BMW thr; we are stuck with taurus/five hundred (drives like a hovercraft -ive driven it for 200 miles).
I am not saying they should bring all vehicles over right now, but when they do design new ones, design with US market in mind as well. I don't have any bias towards imports - they sell a lot of common models right? then why cant ford? esp when people want fuel efficient vehicles.
Personally I like the looks of this, lets see how it compares with VW Tiguan.
spacegravity4me @ Nov 23rd 2007 6:52PM
Get bent!
zamafir @ Nov 23rd 2007 7:14PM
@KnightRider, I'm with you, the Tiguan is getting much better reviews then I expected, and it's standard engine and 6 speed options combined with a competent chassis will mean a fun drive. Hopefully Ford will bring this over with a diesel mil as VW has confirmed for the Tiguan so american buyers have more then one choice - at least those looking for a small suv with diesel.
Judy Zik @ Nov 24th 2007 12:19PM
1)The Fusion is the North American equivlent to the Mondeo not the Taurus/500.
2) The Fusion is currently in production in a plant in Mexico as is tools and dies paid for etc. It will cost major $$$ to retool that plant to build a completely different model which is why they only do that every so many years. I would doubt that the European Modeo factory has the capacity to supply North America as well.
3) For all the bitching around here the Fusion has been a big sucess for Ford and is competitive in it's segment. So why would Ford spend money fixing something that isn't broken when there are other products that are not selling that desperately need attention. Best possible outcome is likely that after spending all that money they end up with a vehicle that sells as well or a bit better than the Fusion. Hardly an outcome worth the investment.
4) Both the Fusion and Focus are due for a major platform change in a couple of years. At which time they have told us the global platform (euro Focus and Mondeo) would be adopted. So they are on there way.
Like it or not Ford is making the right buisness decision. Leveraging the most profit out of the investment it has in the existing and sucessful Fusion while preparing to switch to the Mondeo platform with the next platform change.
That said the Focus is not doing as well. I would expect to see it switched over first.