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Old 09-05-2008, 09:37 AM
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Default The 65 mpg Ford, but the carmaker can't afford to sell it in the U.S.A.?

You gotta read it & see it to believe it.....

Story here

Ford plans to make a gas-powered version of the Fiesta in Mexico for the U.S. So why not manufacture diesel engines there, too? Building a plant would cost at least $350 million at a time when Ford has been burning through more than $1 billion a month in cash reserves. Besides, the automaker would have to produce at least 350,000 engines a year to make such a venture profitable. "We just don't think North and South America would buy that many diesel cars," says Fields.

OK, I don't know about you but it's time Mark goes to work somewhere else. We have many idle or 1/2 used engine plants that could make this motor. What a bunch of BS
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