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In keeping with above.. http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...G/70507011/1170

Back in July ford decided to drop reference to Mark except on the Mark LT - http://tinyurl.com/zxpqg

I don't think so! View the gauges in this link: http://tinyurl.com/zkxr6

No CVT for any model after 2007MY Ford is dropping the continuously variable transmission offered in the Ford Freestyle, Five Hundred and Mercury Montego at the end of the 2007 model year. Reasons: (1) the 3.5 produces to much torque for the current CVT to handle (2) The CVT is made by Ford at its Batavia Ohio plant which is scheduled to close in 2008

Richie, don't take this as a challenge but more of an inquiry what is your basis for price differential? Using what you perceive to be the top out price of the MKZ - vs - MKS (knowing of course both are unannounced) do I understand you to believe the MKS starts where the MKZ tops out or do you anticipate some overlaping. While pricing is still to come I would have thought the MKS would exceed by thousands in seperation.

Funny you should say that, there was this ahh never mind!

The photo in this artcle seems to either exaggerate the side impressions or i'm seeing things http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic.../608090407/1148

That 99% is correct when it comes to the Edge - Oakville, Canada is home to the Edge but you'll have to travel a few thousand miles south to Hermosillo, Mexico to find the assembly plant for the MKZ.

Ford to put 600,000 Fusion toys in cereal boxes 7/30/2006, 9:08 a.m. ET The Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co., in an effort to keep promoting its Fusion mid-sized car, plans to put 600,000 toy cars into Kellogg Co. cereal boxes starting Sunday. The boxes, each containing a Fusion Hot Wheels car, will be distributed out of discount retailer Target Corp.'s stores nationwide. Fusion photos will appear on each box, the nation's second-largest automaker said. The Fusion toys will be inserted in boxes of Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Frosted Flakes and Cocoa Krispies. Ford said one red model with the Target logo will be among them, and whoever gets that box will win a real Fusion. Continued promotion of the Fusion, one of Ford's better-selling models, is a priority for Mark Fields, Ford's president of the Americas. In a recent interview, he said Ford used to roll out a vehicle, then stop promoting it. "We used to do the launch and abandon, which means advertise it for three or four months and then move onto the next product," he said. "In the case of the Fusion, it's a new nameplate. We need to make sure we continually have the right care and feeding of that nameplate so that the awareness builds over time," Fields said. Fusion sales have grown in most months since its introduction last October, peaking 14,940 in May and dropping slightly to 13,691 in June. Dearborn-based Ford sold 71,089 Fusions during the first half of this year, still far short of its main competitors, the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord. Toyota sold 211,131 Camrys during the first half of 2006, while Honda sold 174,871 Accords

Disregard!!

http://wardsauto.com/home/interior_winners_announced/

I believe you will find the specifications list it as having 265HP http://tinyurl.com/zv2qy

I was under the belief that Cleveland Engine Plant#1 was also going to make the Duratec35 Cyclone!

New April 2006 MKZ Review: http://carreviewsonline.auto123.com/en/inf...oln&artid=60587

http://carreviewsonline.auto123.com/en/inf...oln&artid=60587