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Focus man, Focus.,Mar 30 2007, 05:41 PM Wrote:In economy cars like the Focus, people in North America are more concerned with price rather than options like VSC.  In Europe cars are smaller due to the narrow roads and they are used to driving smaller cars.  Also their dollar is stronger so they can get more options in their cars at a somewhat reasonable price.  When you are competing directly with major european makes you need to build more options into the cars to remain competitive in the marketplace. 

This is only my $0.02, take it as you will.
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I agree with you, but it still phases me a little that they have alienated a few people. I mean I was in India over a few weeks in Dec 2007. Their cars are more up to date than ours, at least from Ford/Honda/Toyota. The models in India are more upscale i.e. chrome accents, sportier exteriors etc. Canada maybe even the US needs to see some of this aesthetic upgrades, the Ka or Focus, etc.

2001 ZTS, if you are English or Indian, you will soon realize that changing over from Regular to Decaf is like telling a SMOKER to smoke Popeye candy cigarettes, it's just not going to happen. Anyways, thanks for taking this topic off topic 2001ZTS ... So back to Focus'..

in terms of VSC, at least Ford should offer it on competing models to midsize/luxury models. As for the Focus, they should have switched over to a more competitive Euro Focus to compete with the new Civic/Cobalt/Sentra etc. It just seems that Ford takes something and sits on their laurels; they just can't be doing that in their home country otherwise they are going to be in a worse situation than Chrysler was in the 1980's and then some foreign company will buy out your already Mexicanized Ford and we will all be driving Toyotas with even more domestic content than a Ford.

YAWN for 2001 ZTS attention span :lol: let's see Ford make a turn around and build some cool cars and keep North America competitive.