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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.]]>Nov 24th 2007 12:19PM