NO NO NO NO NO to bringing over the Mondeo.

And Yes yes yes yes yes to a World Car for Everyone at Ford- Same Great car all over the world.

Mondeo does not exist here.

The World car theme Ford will be throughout the World moving forward so everyone all over the globe will have the same car- just that the steering wheel will be on opposites sides will be the only difference.

This is the way it should be. Build the best of everything and offer it to everyone. I agree 100% with Mulally’s Philosophy on this.

Would you pay 10000 Euro for a Fiesta with 75 HP? That’s $15000 these days.
No? Why? This is how much it costs in Europe, and it’s a promotion. http://www.ford.ro front page.

It’s not a bad car, it’s reliable, does not guzzle gas.

But no, you want to have at least 250 HP to go to the supermarket.

The new Mondeo with a 1.6 liter engine 110 HP is around $28500 (VAT included), and that’s the entry-level Mondeo with the least options.

Perhaps you’d like to know the price for a Mondeo suited to you taste: a 2.5 litre Turbo 220 HP (that’s the most powerful gas engine on the European Mondeo) and with better options, but not the max. That would be a mere $37000. Would you like full options? $41394

These cars are made in Germany, they are not taxed extra in all the European Union. So these are just regular European prices, VAT included.

So, what are you going to say now? Do you want the European Ford or not?

Zo6 blow it out your ass. Who cares what you think. The Taurus nameplate is still synonomous with success.
#1 Selling car in America- and was essentially at the Top with Accord and Camry – and no other car can claim that for almost 2 decades. Certainly not GM trash.

You only wish Ford would dump the name fat chance.
And you may not think the Taurus is sporty but it sure man handled GM pony cars whenever they were too foolish enough to challenge me in the moving lane.
And therefore I did’nt need an SHO Taurus to blow the doors off many Camaro’s and Firebird who hated Ford’s guts too. Courtesy Taurus SES

The World car Ford Focus was the world best selling car.
The Verve promises to be the same kind of deal. so keep your pants on. And Mulally said future models will be sold worldwide. So shut up.

New Surprises – Edge is doing well.-you don’t change that. Verdict is out on Flex ok.

Large car needs to go or total redesign.

Ford has a good blend of Hybrid / Eco-boost cars and Trucks, but I feel the only area they are weak in is Electrics. Ford get to work with that area everyone else will have one by 2010 or 2012. Where is your Electric at? Hmmm you need a Triad offense with Gasoline prices that will never come down.

Ford is bringing over the Verve/Fiesta and that is also another good move. So don’t complain your getting a Euro-Ford ok dolts. The Edge is selling well. You don’t replace things that are selling well. And you don’t replace the entire US lineup are you insane.

Ford does need to replace the Escape ok- and before you say Kuga your already hap hazzardly replacing stuff with Names no one knows about. Ford would lose more billions and go out of business if they took your suggestions. But on the Escape let us not forget a New Escape I feel to be even more eye catching than the Kuga should be the Ford Iosis X Concept. That’s what Ford needs!!!

The Ford Explorer America will be Super for the Explorer- You don’t delete Vehicles that were #1 and people know what they are you really do a number on the New Model carrying the name forward. Ford has to be consistent. And you stupid Hodge Podge people would put Ford out of business fast with names like Mondeo people have no clue what that is.

And if Ford eventually wants to take the Mustang to the extreme Mustang Giugiaro concept that would be great too.

Let us not forget the Crown Vic and the Ranger have to go to. alright we can’t have overlapping product people.

You are the very same people that ask Ford to build stupid cars like the Go-Kart T-Bird-(no usable Trunk),
Ford GT, 500, Crossover Trainer that have almost Bankrupted the company. Please changing names and bringing over vehicles that don’t fit won’t help.

Mulally knows what he is doing.

THe Iosis Concept with the Escape name hey that would keep that brand. Mondeo is half baked and it looks European. So I guess some of you would’nt mind giving Ford half baked results either. meaning they bring it over and fold- half the people hate it and computer nerds like you tell Ford you’ll buy it and then after further review you pussyfoot and don’t buy it anyway so shut up. Your idiots

Also the S-Max is great with the 2.5 I5 Turbo like the Focus ST has… He’s right – google it!

jumpoffit, Aussie – Even in the UK I’m a fan of Falcons… FPV F6 Typhoon R Spec looks tasty, and the Cobra GT Boss 302 one is particulary beefy… I would love to see them in the UK but at £1.06 a litre average here it would be expensive to fill up… Oh, that’s $2.30 Aussie dollars to you

- “The Mondeo won’t make it in its current form, which suck because it is a new car, because it was not designed to American Safety standards but European standards. It would cost too much to bring the car up to US spec.”

Stupid and lame considering the First Focus was brought over largely as is. Further US and Euro safety Spec is largely the same, Heck Germany and GB have been selling their cars in the US for eons and they are nearly mechanically identical to those sold in Europe. Just another weak excuse by FORD, to not sell the good stuff here.

- “We [FORD] have no plans to ship the the Focus to the US. However as part of our plan to increase our focus on smaller more fuel efficient vehicles, the third generation Focus will be shipped to the US and Europe.”

What IS the hold up? The current Euro Focus is a Mazda3 with more attractive lines and powertrain options. Further, FORD is only shipping the new Focus because “that is where the market is going in the coming years.” Duh! it’s been headed that way for decades for different reasons, not merely the obvious, “to save money on gas”. The EURO Focus has had it across the board to compete in very much the same way as the Mitsubishi Lancer, from eco-box commuter car, to fire-breathing compact sports car, but we only get the boring end. Not even the good engine, but for one or two years of US Focus. Now we get a redressed version of the old car and they call it “all new”…

Bring over the Fiesta as well, the Focus may NOT small enough for some anymore, and include availability of both the Focus WRC and the Fiesta JWRC.

I have nothing on the KUGA except FORD has not said what they are going to do. Looks good sounds like a winner.

Also what ever happened to the FALCON? You know that car from Australia that is supposed to also underpin the 2012 Mustang and completely replace the Panther Platform cars?

Ford needs to follow through. If they ship just the newest Focus, they need to follow up with the entire line up and everything else they can ship or have built over here as quickly as possible. No dragging their feet to see how it turns out. We know how it will turn out: a strong and steady, not instant, return to prominence.

The Mondeo is derided in the UK as a “salesman’s car” even though it is generations ahead of the decrepit Taurus and the clunky, slab-sided Fusion.

I would happily drive a Mondeo or Kuga. Send ‘em over. (But FoMoCo always has 100 reasons why it would never work.)

Allan Mullaly is still too new at his post to see any real results of his leadership, but he’s certainly had enough time to have put a few “irons in the fire”. I wonder if he has, and what they look like?

SoLoveLA—I have an ‘06 Fusion SEL that I bought used just a couple of months ago with 25K miles on it. I traded in an ‘03 VW Passat on it. So far, so good. In many ways, it’s easily the equal of the Passat (which I had very high regard for). The feel of the steering and the ride quality are actually better than the Passat. The one glaring shortcoming on it is the prop rod that they put on the hood; prop rods are for entry level cars only, in my opinion.

By the way, they don’t need to import them at a loss but rather just build them here at a profit. Rather than waste time redesigning the Taurus (and then retooling to build it) just retool to build a Mondeo as is. You dont even need to design and refine the manufacturing. The same could have occured with the Focus (although the new one is not too bad). And about the Explorer, offer the Kuga as the new Explorer and redefine the vehicle, the segment, and your sagging image.

How such blindness can run a $100,000,000,000 north american operation I will never know, but if they continue the $ sales will soon shrink to that of the donut shop they should be running.