[bluetoy]

NefCanuck,Nov 16 2006, 12:36 AM Wrote:

bluetoy,Nov 15 2006, 10:15 PM Wrote:

meford4u,Nov 15 2006, 09:19 PM Wrote:We have never had to "live" up to the higher standards of a Lincoln.  It's a big change.

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Why should there be different standards? If all Ford's cars were built with higher standards we'd have better cars. Better cars=more sales. More sales=more profits.

Here is an example of another problem with NA car companies.


BTW My blood runs Ford blue.
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Um, you do realize that Honda does the same thing with the Civic and the bottom rung Acura right? (The CSX?) they're structurally the same car, just a different grade of interior materials and some mechanical differences and there's a nasty price gap between them.

All Ford is doing is what any good mainstream car company should do when they have an "upmarket" brand. Make sure that the upmarket version is different enough to warrant the price premium and not just "badge engineer between brands (Hello GM)

NefCAnuck
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The trim and materials has nothing to do with the build quality. I wasn't talking about using leather instead of vinyl. I thought that was clear. The issues with these things have nothing to do with using hard plastic versus soft plastic...