Ford knew Focus, Fiesta models had flawed transmission, sold them anyway

[Smirnoff]

And Ford blamed it was the customers fault & not the transmission.....really?

[Zacha341]

You'd think they'd have learned from Chrysler's former woes ala junk models; those oil-n-water mixing jinxed ticking engines, the Concordes, etc.? Does Ford want to go back to the days of the disposable Ford Contour----?

I really liked the MKM Lincoln boss sedan - had a chance to drive while back. Nice. Put that quality a bit in the sub-compacts as others have done.

And Ford blamed it was the customers fault & not the transmission.....really?

[Richard]

You'd think they'd have learned from Chrysler's former woes ala junk models; those oil-n-water mixing jinxed ticking engines, the Concordes, etc.? Does Ford want to go back to the days of the disposable Ford Contour----?

I really liked the MKM Lincoln boss sedan - had a chance to drive while back. Nice. Put that quality a bit in the sub-compacts as others have done.

They cannot do that without eliminating half of the lineup,if they put the luxury options in a base model then people would buy the base model and not the luxury.

Honda got away with it with the accord,base,LX then EX. But they only had two cars,the civic and accord.

The Suzuki Samurai was the honest one,they placed a sticker under the hood that clearly read ... The manufacturers life expectancy of this vehicle does not exceed 50,000 miles.


Remember the Chevrolet caviler and Cadillac Cimarron,they took a Caviler body and made it well appointed and called it a Cadillac.

The public figured out real quick you could order a fully optioned Cavalier and have the same thing as the Cadillac version at half the price.