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Originally Posted by bluesport
The 2 litre ecoboost 4 cylinder has been getting rave reviews and is arguably the best petrol engine in the Ford range with 74kg less weight, more power and comparable torque to the old venerable SOHC 4 litre six cylinder.
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Yes I know but rave reviews have not translated to rave sales and hence the market has spoken.
Ford missed the boat years ago first dropping the V8 after the XE they lost a generation of potential buyers for kids having an interest in Australian cars followed HDT/HSV....later they lost it again with no replacement for the Laser and relying on the Falcon....sure a few years there the XR6 Turbo was the ducks guts but the market moved again and Ford was reading from another book
As for the finance package luxury brands like Mercedes have been doing this for sometime...now trickling down to mainstream cars will put a further nail in the coffin of big Aussie 6.