Brust wrote:As to the Focus vs Forester debate- I know you've got your bias toward the Focus- we all think our babies are the brightest, best looking kids in school, but the Focus never had the utility and sportiness combined (real sport-utility). I concede that the PZEV Focus was the first and longest running, but fact is the Forester is there too and does it with AWD, better interior room, more towing capacity.... and if you want to be a dirty speedster you can pick up the turbo and beat baby Porsches in the stoplight grand prix.
And had all of that been realsitically important, it would have sold in greater numbers. Alas, it's but a small blip on the automotive radar.
But then again, we did the Escape Hybrid, which was also PZEV, and great FE, great utility, great interior room, etc etc etc. I wonder if that outsold the Forrester (I don't have numbers in front of me).
Side note- I find it pretty amusing how " the car of the decade" is being mostly nomiated as tiny, insignificant sales cars. One would think that if the car was so great, they would sell. Right now, outside of my very biased Eric Car of the Decade, the winner based on sales comes out to the Pious. The rest of the cars you all mention don't really mean much more than image- either too few could afford them, or not enough people cared about them.
All in all, I think the Car of the Decade is still the F150- it showed both sides of the automotive equation- great excess- selling in huge numbers, being more luxo every model, yet it was also the poster child for waste. Kind of in the headlines for both the good and bad economy of the decade.
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: MINI?
I kid. I'm sure the engines are great.
