[VOA]

There already is a superior Focus, in the European market.

You get the feeling the Ford managers don't read any automotive magazines.
Because those mags (and anybody with an IQ over room temp, including
myself) has been telling them:
"Just build the cars you make in Europe, Australia and Japan here
and sell them here, ya morons!"

[ARA]

That is so true... Ford Europe is so much better... I think the Irony is that most of the Ford built around the world are actually designed here in the states... Correct me if I am wrong..

[dirtbiker]

You get the feeling the Ford managers don't read any automotive magazines.
Because those mags (and anybody with an IQ over room temp, including myself) has been telling them:
"Just build the cars you make in Europe, Australia and Japan here and sell them here, ya morons!"

The BIGGEST problem with that is usually the EPA or the NHTSA, citing some obscure rule or law that because such and such a test wasn't done, the car can't be sold here (Never mind the fact it is probably a safer and cleaner running design that what is sold domestically)

That is also another reason for higher cost for vehicles, because manufacturers have to make several different versions of a car for several different markets, each subject to whatever "ruling authority's" whims concerning emissions and safety...