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(11-03-2011, 02:43 PM)adamzx5 Wrote: Fords decision to bring some of there euro line up over here will help them greatly. They way I look at it people there make alot less then us , so in order to sell them cars they have to be reliable or else they will loose alot of money in Europe. Imo

You're wrong, people in Europe don't make less money than us; on average they make more or the same, with much more time off. Also, much of the workforce is unionized. Almost every German one is.

Where the difference lies is the availability of an established, reliable means of mass transit; because of this a car becomes a LUXURY which means they can charge more money, which in turn means that they can make a higher quality product. Part of the reason we didn't get the Euro Focus earlier is because people wanted the Focus to stay cheap, the tooling for ours was already paid for. Ford didn't want to invest the money at the time because the ROI wasn't there yet.

Example: A Focus RS, is about $50,000 in Canadian dollars. Most people here would not pay $50,000 for any Ford, let alone a Focus. You get the average Focus tire kicker into a showroom (ie many here) and you hear waaawaaawaaa $30,000 for a Focus. Well, if you want a $15,000 car, that's what you get. That's why early NA Focii had issues, because people whined about the price so they had to make it cheaper in order to sell.