Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope
by rhinoceraptor on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:48AM
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Ford isn't making the Focus, Fiesta or the Taurus for North America anymore. The only passenger vehicles people are buying are pickups, SUVs and crossovers.
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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope
by magduf on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:25PM
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That's not quite true. What is true is that the only Fords people in North America were buying were pickups, SUVs, and crossovers, so Ford stopped bothering with cars in North America.
However, there's still people buying cars, but usually they're foreign makes. The American carmakers have spent decades trying to prove to people that they suck at making cars and only put their effort into trucks/SUVs, and American car buyers are finally getting the message.