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darkpuppet,Oct 17 2007, 04:37 PM Wrote:doubt it'll make it to north america, what with Ford's insistence to kill sport compact enthusiasm here.
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Corrected for truth, with added emphasis.

I COULD have bought a SVT Focus, but I wanted something newer and rear-drive. I wasn't buying a SVT just to throw away the drivetrain and do the Kugel swap.

I was also THIS close to a used 2005-06 GTI with a DSG. However, I feel I made the right choice.

Boourns to Mullaly - he'll create one giant rental car company out of Ford yet. They'll be profitable, but they'll have no personal customers under the age of 50 in 5 years at this rate. Watch Chrysler now that Cerberus owns them... this onslaught of "horsepower in everything but the minivan" is a final hurrah for Chrysler.

Mark my words. The only ones left doing high-performance will be the Japanese, the Germans and maybe GM.

Porsche is already fighting the new emissions laws overseas because they favour a lot of companies that make cars which have no performance potential. Porsche is calling it an automobile "'war".

Sorry, kinda got off on a tangent there.