They sold 160,000 units in 2019. According to Wiki “In 2019, the Fusion was the seventh-best selling car in the United States.” It’s not *not* popular.

I wonder what it would have sold if Ford had bothered to update this platform instead of letting it exist basically unchanged since 2013. 

Just read through the twitter exchange. As a child of a Ford employee, I’ve been brand loyal the entire 16 years I’ve been driving. But with Ford doing away with a segment that suits me better than any other, I’m looking elsewhere. It’s painful for me as the son of a man who worked his ass off for 36 years for that…

Ford sold 3.2 million of these things, and somehow those customers don’t matter anymore. Let the Koreans have the sedan market. Ford doesn’t deserve them anymore.

Ecosport SE is more than a base Fusion. They aren’t as far apart in price as you might think. 

As I told Mike on Twitter, the article absolutely does not omit the Escape Hybrid. It’s also not my job to advertise for Ford. If someone is shopping for a mid-sized sedan, why should they be forced into a CUV? Ford is trying to make customers fit its cars, rather than make cars fit its customers.

Ford sold 3.2…

Not every car is targeted to driving enthusiasts and has to have 500+ hp. The Crosstrek is one of them. Most buyers are happy with a car that is reliable, serviceable, and meets their transportation needs without asking too much in return.

Selling badly? Where? I live in the PNW and you can’t swing the proverbial dead cat without hitting a Crosstrek.  If you live anywhere with snow or have modest offroad intentions, none of the competition measures up (literally, the Subie has the best ground clearance of all).

Chevy Spark lives, somehow. There is also the Hyundai Accent, Kia Rio, Mitsubishi Mirage and Nissan Versa off the top of my head.

Also, I was out the door with a brand new Sonic with the turbo and the 6 speed stick, sunroof, and touchscreen stereo for about $14k.

The interior materials are garbage (hardest plastics ever) but the packaging is not horrible. There is actually more interior space in the Sonic than there in a first gen Mazda 3 even though the Sonic is 17 inches shorter than the Mazda 3.

So the Toyota Yaris and Prius C are dead. The Chevy Sonic and Cruze are dead. The Ford Fiesta is dead and the Focus has been deported. The VW Beetle is dead. The Fiat 500 is dead. North America isn’t getting the new Fit.

Side note: the Sonic is built in Michigan, the only US made car in the segment. Yes, I know the design has roots in Korea.

RIP any hopes I had of a Yaris GR. If only they’d sell it here I’d trade in my Abarth on it it tomorrow. But we Americans can’t have nice things.

God, if ever there was a time to just combine our safety standards with Europe’s we could bring back the grey market and we could have fun things again that aren’t another…

You aren’t driving a new Toyota for less than twenty grand now. How did that happen?

RIP to every pirate’s favorite car.

“I’ll be damned if a twenty grand starting price is considered cheap.”

He also refers to the public health officer as “unelected”, which is something only Republicans tend to do. In their world, it’s better to have an elected idiot over a unelected expert.

It’s scary that X is probably the most mature person in the Musk household.

Wah wah wah!! Trump is still the most immature crybaby on earth but Elon is closing the gap quickly...