« Reply #16 on: 21 November 2010, 18:57 »
Sorry to veer off the thread topic, but there is one thing I didn't really get about Ford.
They build powerful European cars such as the Focus ST, RS etc, but in the states their Ford models have larger engines but not a lot of BHP/performance etc.
Why is that?
Just a different market. The US traditionally likes its torquey big capacity low-revving understressed engines. You'd also be surpised how many new US cars still have 1960's-style suspension.
Yeah, take the new Jetta as an example, in Europe it has the indie rear suspension like the Golf and Passat, but stateside they're knocking them out with low rent interiors and beam suspension like on mk1 Golfs. Yet they're all built in the same Mexican factory.
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