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Ford will miss the mark forever. They screwed up on marketing the Xr4Ti by giving it a dumb name (Mekur), they insist thst the US market wants flying, sneering bricks (Lincoln), giant SUV's or boring mobiles (Focus, Fusion and Taurus).

Ford would kick the collective booties of Honda, Nissan, Toyota/Scion and VW if they built this vehilce in North America.

I wish that Bill Ford would spend about a year in Europe and Australia and drive the Fords there and then be forced to drive what we call Fords in the US. hen (if he had any brains or ambition) would fire Mullaly and the small minds in Dearborn and bring designers and executive over from Germany and Australia.

Also, the Mondeo wagon would be a Subaru/VW/Audi/Mercedes-Benz killer but I guess that it doesn't look anything like a 5,000 pound crossover...

bring it to U.S. market asap this what we need in are recovery.I,m a proud ford worker 4 about 13 yrs !!!!I loves this car.

you know, having looked at Chrysler and GM's website, Ford definitely has better styling. Those other 2 makes some ugly ass cars, except some Chevys are stylish. At the risk of redundancy, bring cool European cars to the US, it seems like your US designers or people that choose what designs to sell here, underestimate the US consumer's taste. Go Ford!

This car is very very sexy. I would love to own this car and that color is pretty awesome too. I don't know, it just seems european styling is better, I think Americans are moving more towards this notion. We now like real cheese like Brie instead of processed American cheese. Same thing with clothes. Ford, bring you cool European cars to your homeland!

Well, yet another post wondering why ford cant produce a beautiful car like that for America? I mean c'mon, Ford is an AMERICAN made car, and if they were to bring something like to the US market, they would make a killing! im a member on a focus forum, i drive a 2009 foucs and love it, but why ford? Sure they did great with the 09 NA focus. but 9/1- people would rather have this...... Even in that color!

Ford vehicles are what I have been driving for twenty years. My latest cars are a 04 SVT Focus and 03 Mach 1. European Ford vehicles are more appealing than what North American Ford is offering. It frustrates me enough to buy a foreign car in three years. I wouldn't think of it, if they brought back SVT Focus or from Europe the Focus RS/ST.

They need to make there hybrid vehicles more attractive than a vanilla wafer. They offer ugly colors and not very eye apealing. i.e. The Hybrid Escape - great engineering but ugly colors and lack premium wheels.

As an European person I can tell you: Ford is doing fine in Europe, although because of the economic crisis affecting the total car sales, it affects Ford in Europe as well.
I am curious about the American consumer: why do American cars have such a poor quality and poor plastic materials inside and why do consumers accept that?
As an European person I hope that the design of Ford vehicles will not deteriorate when American engineers/ marketing execs help the engineers in Cologne to design European Ford vehicles.
It is already a problem in Europe: German and Swiss people demand higher quality cars and materials than English people. I am in favour of the former party and put some extra quality in a car and I am prepared to pay for that.

i have escape
but i fall in love to focus
i just want to know how is the focus price

After following the big 3 auto execs performance in the Senate and House and hearing mostly BS comments, would it not have been nice if Ford et al had disclosed that some of these European fuel efficient cars would be available in the USA? I am buying Ford stock and praying!

This looks like yet another great car that we will not see in the states. For some reason Ford as well as GM and Chrysler have this idea that we all want to buy huge trucks and SUVs. My daily driver is a Contour SVT and I love it. It is getting some miles on it and I would gladly trade ot for that Focus, but that won't happen because Ford keeps trying to sell us bland styled cars with mediocre performance.

This carr is better than tha american Focus, have more style, the american focus is like a Kia carr, i love European Focus

Why don't ford bring these european vehicles over here to the states. They are way better looking than what we drive here. Ford is hurting right now, this could help them out of it. Everone I've talk to agrees with me, how great they look

FORD MAN DAN

Awesome!!!

For the life of me can not understand why Ford NA can not take European designs and use them here in the states. How incredibly difficult is that? I'm not asking you to ship Euro. cars here, It's been stated by Ford the costs would exceed profits etc. etc.. But use European designs they share cues from other luxury brands. Stop following statistics and start following the consumer's wants, not just needs. I swear they believe NA buyers are dumb that's far from the truth. the 50's generation is starting to turn over to the Camry's while first time buyers are going for that VW or Civic because they notice these companies put higher quality materials, smoother better designed vehicles for the same price.

It's really all about opinion and that is mine, thinking 1 person doesn't matter is wrong because I'm sure many like me feel the same way, and is evident by Ford's sales. They had that web-special where they would document fords efforts in turning the company around. I followed closely and read so many comments and opinions. All desired better from ford, more specifically from their European cars. When I think of Ford, 3 things come to mind. Trucks, Volvo, Mazda. Nothing else from this brand interests me. I'll be car shopping mid 2009. I'll most likely buy a Mazda, you can make money from me that way I suppose ~

-Huge fan of ford. I just wish they would wake up and start making change -FASTER-

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The car in these pics is the new Ford Focus RS which will be on sale in Europe from mid 2009. The car has the same 2.5L 5 Cylinder 20V Turbo engine from the current European Ford Focus ST, but in RS form it will be modified to produce 300PS/296BHP and over 320FT/LB torque. Over 1000 orders have been placed in the UK alone with over 40% of those requesting the Green color as shown in these photos. The car looks the part (Maybe in Sea Grey metallic) and I will be part exchanging my 2007 UK Focus ST for an RS when it is released next year.
The car can be viewed on the Ford UK website and is regularly updated.
Hopefully Ford US will follow suit as this is an affordable performance car and would sell well on the NOrth American market.

Last spring I drove a Ford Focus through Ireland. It was a new car and drove wonderfully. If this car is made available in the States I will buy one. Please don't modify it to death, it is great as it is.

Please bring the RS/ST to the US and rebuild Ford's reputation as great car manufacturer and to give that awesome car a chance to make history like the mustang. Make it in a four door version too because I love my 4-door SVT focus.. it only lacks a turbo!

Not to sound Cynical, But This apears to be another atempt to get our hopes up that AMERICA could make a car Worthy of competing with the rest of the world. That the average person could purchase, AND Enjoy Driving knowing that made in USA STOOD for and STILL Stands For something. {Refferencing Harley D-------, and Tuner Markets being dominated By The Rising Sun}. I Believe it or not Love America Just Tired Of The False Hope... Hey How about kicking the OIL Company Executives Of the Board And Then we will all see how great American Car Companies Car Be....