It's possible. January and February production were within a few units of each other and pretty close to a monthly average of last year......I don't know what December production figures were like, but last November was only 2k units.
By that time, Ford was pushing the Escape more than Focus,
it seems that North America was glad to shed the Focus as soon
as it wasn’t needed as a CAFE offset for Ford’s larger cars.
They always had this idea that if the Escape was more of a
crossover, it could pick up Focus buyers…..
If you ignore Explorer's 23% drop....
Expedition gets a bit of a pass because it's transitioning to the new model (maybe it'll arrive sometime this year? lol)....
Not to mention some the products with major drops are in the middle of refreshed product launches like the Maverick and Expedition
The Mustang is in a three month rut of sales shrinking but who really buys a Mustang in the middle of the winter north of the mason Dixon line too.
The S197 is very distantly similar to the Lincoln LS platform and keep in mind that same platform was found under the Thunderbird of that era.
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to make the current Mustang platform into a sedan and who knows, maybe future impact standards are going to require a redesign effort to the Mustang platform to meet those standards, so adding sedan will hopefully offset the costs of that.