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Originally Posted by CaysE
Like everybody on this forum did?  |
Pretty much. Allot of the original focus owners from the early days of this forum moved on to other cars, a few kept buying them, but the character of people who bought a focus new in the last few years is a bit different than back in say 2002.
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Originally Posted by jinstall
Ford has one, the Kuga', and it is coming to the US. I said that already. The Focus will not have AWD. Not in the C170 nor in the C307.
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the Kuga is a "crossover" though, more as an escape replacement, it is not a CAR. Ford found a good number of sales gains in the Fusion and taurus CARS by adding AWD. It may not be a big selling point in the EU, but it has been a big selling point in the northern US. Just like Subaru was ALL AWD in the US, and Audi is almost always sold as AWD in the northeast. Trucks are almost universially stocked and sold with AWD up here too, unlike the south where it is just 2wd. Try and find ANY suv on the lot in new england without awd. Even though people here are downsizeing to smaller cars, I think they still want the AWD option.
Again this is getting into global marketing, and making cars so they can fit any market. In florida and the south AWD is not a selling point at all ford a ford, since they sell it as a "safety" or "convenance" feature in the north for snow, not for handeling peformance.
VW, Audi, Merc, etc... all tend to offer AWD...
BMW is finally coming around to offering AWD on their cars too, not just the SUV's.