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Originally Posted by au2000
I think its more than just the powershift auto itself... it's fords behaviour to its customers over it that's left the bad taste in peoples mouths... just look at the comments on Ford's Facebook page whenever there is a comment re focus & powershift (I prefer to call it power****)
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Exactly, they tried to be smart with customers and avoided doing the right
thing until forced to do so. As far as I know they have never really admitted
that there was no permanent fix for powershift, they can make it better for
longer but eventually it will cause trouble again...
For all of that, I believe the market is fairly forgiving, just start delivering great
vehicles and treat customers with respect an most of that" bad air" will stay in
the past thanks to moving to a proper 6AT in the Focus back in 2015,
I think Fiesta with 1.5 had powershift too but the 1.0 EB has the 6F15 auto.
We are pretty much stuck with meh products until Ford reconfigures products
coming out of Europe which is pretty much the home room for most global
products - I like the look of new Escape and the Puma is a knock off of CX-3.
The other issue of course is Ford's pricing, great to have premium products but
don't expect sales to be al that good.. dealers must be wondering if they are
ever going to get anything they can sell in decent numbers.....
Ranger was really needed for our market and that's why Ford Aust had so
much say in what they wanted for our market back in 2011 but what they
need to do now is take that knowledge and apply it to Europe's coming
vehicles before they get here.