Getting away from the personal battles here, as a Ford Motor Company fan, who has owned several products from this corporation, I believe that it is asinine to continue to develop different platforms for different markets. The differences in European/American/Australian crash test requirements, and the FACT that buyer preferences have shifted globally as a consequence of the real change in the price of oil today and in the future mean that global platforms make much more sense than they did 10, 15, 30, or 50 years ago. This is less reflected in sales in the midwest or open portions of Australia, but on the coasts Ford needs to bring the Europeans Fords over soon, and I don't care if they call them Pluto's in copying GM. The car markets on the coasts demand this product.
