Agree and in the late twenty teens, the tide was definitely going against sedan sales for Ford, it’s doubtful whether any amount of refresh/new platform would have lifted sales. So switching to other products like Bronco Sport and Maverick
The thing that gets me is why was Fusion so much more expensive to build in the same Mexican plant compared to Maverick and Bronco Sport?
Prices are starting to come back down on these things, keep an eye out on marketplace and you can probably find a pretty good one for a decent price. Things got out of hand during covid.
I am looking at buying a 2000 f250 super cab 7.3 with 185k on it. I’m in Wisconsin and wondering what people think a food price would be? It has minimal to rust but drivers seat is cracked up. Pretty stock truck
Thats my point. Camry and Accord were the best of the best yet their sales still dropped. The sales numbers show that lack of refreshes didn’t hurt at all in 2011.
Saying it would have been higher sales and more profitable with more regular refreshes is simply ignoring facts and common sense. And I’m all for more regular refreshes, I just do t believe it had anything to do with the demise of sedans.
Camry and Accord got refreshes quite regularly...the original Fusion (2006) got one refresh in its original sheet metal (had one and loved it, traded for a 2012 with the refresh and loved it too) then a redesign in 2013 that was never refreshed until its demise.
Not necessarily a bad thing
You can label anything you want, it makes no difference
Socialist creeps always piss me off....the irony is, here in NY State, the Dems and their "progressive liberals" have left the union members in the dust and the GOP endears themselves to the union members.
But in that case, it was a European company buying out an American one, so that puts them in charge. They have every right to make that choice as if they didn't buy them, Chrysler would have probably been liquidated.
Correct but also, the reason that head office is taking a more active role in European operations is exactly because
Ford Europe has mismanaged itself into a corner with vehicles that are now perceived as over priced by
many former buyers.