I can change the cabin filter in a cd3 fusion in 90 seconds with no tools.  Cd4 fusion takes a screwdriver and 15 minutes.   cd4 had to be beefed up to support ecoboost 2.7 and 3.0 power and it supported plug in hybrids.  Build quality suffered a lot starting with the headlights before cd4 fusion even launched.  They were shipping cars to flat rock to fix them then shipping them back to hermosillo.  Hermosillo went from #1 in quality to nowhere near that overnight.  And it wasn't the workers.   C2 was built to only support I4s.  As such it has more in common with C1 than CD4.

Yeah.  The Fusion never went away; it moved to C2, just like the Taurus, Edge, MKz, and the Nautilus.  These vehicles are still in production. 

Did you expect CD4 to be less complex than a 10-year-old platform? How is C2 superior? 

You might want to reread my post...

Again, CD4 included more than the fusion.

I agree,  Gen 2 2011-2018 ” One-Ford” Had 26 nameplates, 22 were Ford, including five from D3 and D4 (I should have added to the original post) Gen 3 2018-present Has 12 Nameplates With the discontinuation of the Focus by 2026, Ford will have 11 vehicles. Only 4 Vehicles are being sold in NA, and only two are being built here. Compared to 2014, when 15 Vehicles were sold in NA, and 15 were being built in NA. 

Ok we got it.

I'll be visiting the PEC in the spring.  I'd rather beat up their cars on the track than mine.

As the owner of a cd3 and cd4 fusion and a cd3 and cd4 edge and nautilus I disagree.  Cd4 had far more issues and was a much more complex vehicle in addition to being overweight.  C2 is far superior to both.

Absolutely not because it's the most important vehicle and platform that Ford has and it's been that way for 60+ years.  You can't discuss Ford's investment in other products without it because it gets top priority on resources.  Why do the Koreans have so many cars and crossovers?  Because that's essentially all they sell so they don't have to share resources with trucks and large SUVs and commercial vans.     Unless you have the cash or you're willing to mortgage the future to expand the business by adding tens of thousands of employees and open new factories, corporate resources are a zero sum game.  When Ford introduced maverick and bronco sport they financed it by killing fusion and mkz.  All of the people and factory and other resources were just shifted to new products.  Didn't have to hire people or build new factories.