Ford Europe makes $1Bn proft

[tentacles]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsAr...llCars/237455/

Ford sold more Focuses in Europe than Honda sells Civics in the US. The Focus alone almost outsells all of Honda Europe combined.

[Redlyne_mr2]

Good for them.. Ford Europe has their act together for sure.

[treg50]

Originally posted by tentacles

Don't quite know what you're rolling on the floor about. But this is good news by Ford.

Also, the article mentions NOTHING of the Ford Focus or Honda Civic soooo wtf are you going on about, lol?

[ZorroAMG]

Treg, do you work for honda? Did you design the civic?

Why the hell are you getting so defensive?

[treg50]

Originally posted by ZorroAMG
Treg, do you work for honda? Did you design the civic?

Why the hell are you getting so defensive?

Do you work for Dell? Did you design their warranty policy? You're the one calling the gestapo on some OP in a thread in Electronics.

Note the "lol" at the end of my post, I wasn't being overly serious. I'm just wondering why a good article about Ford is a platform form "focus rulez, civic sux" when the link says nothing about that. And also I was just curious about the figures (which are referred to but not given).

[ZorroAMG]

Whatever, man. You know as well as I do that your "lol" was sarcastic.

The dell situation is a LIIIIIITLE different, Kimosabe.

[BigMass]

Genius business concept. Sell good cars that people want = make money. I wonder if they teach that at Harvard business school

[A790]

Bring that ethic to North America. Maybe Ford will dig itself out of this mess?

[kevie88]

we need this:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsGa...L=-1&IM=211007

I'd buy one!

[A790]

Don't they want $39,000 EUR for that?

[kevie88]

Originally posted by A790
Don't they want $39,000 EUR for that?

It'd be a lot less here.. prolly in the mid to high thirties.

[dino_martini]

Originally posted by kevie88
we need this:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsGa...&IM=211007

I'd buy one!

Focus RS is sick. I'd love one.

[tentacles]

Also, the article mentions NOTHING of the Ford Focus or Honda Civic soooo wtf are you going on about, lol?

Yeah, I just made that shit up out of the blue right now.

Every car company publishes sales figures every month on their website, you'd think people on a car board would know that. Go check if you want.

[Nissanaddict]

Congrats to Ford of Europe. Keep in mind, the Civic is one of the rare cars where we probably get a better version than Europe. Looks and hatchback option aside, we get independant rear suspension. The Hatch didn't have room (or rather, they wanted more room) so they fit a torsion beam suspension to the back of that instead. From what I've heard, it really does a number on the handling.

Also, by all accounts that I've heard, RS or not, the euro Focus rocks. Stupid UAW blocked its arrival here.

[01RedDX]

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[Graham_A_M]

Originally posted by A790
Don't they want $39,000 EUR for that?

All cars in Europe are stupidly expensive in comparison to what were used to I find.

I'd definitely sport a Focus RS too, that thing was pretty damn cool

[Team_Mclaren]

give me the damn Mondeo!!!

PS: fuck UAW
PSS: cars are more expensive in europe due to tax iirc

[Xtrema]

I would drive a Ford if this is the line up in America.

[Team_Mclaren]

^^ we are getting the fiesta

[Destinova403]

^^ And the Focus in a couple years.