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Old 10-14-2008, 08:48 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: Ford of Europe designing future Mercury model

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Originally Posted by nadepalma View Post
However, one area that probably will NOT match up exactly are the interiors. While I have no doubt that Ford of NA will step up their game in the area of interior design, materials fit, and finish - I doubt that they'll be as rich as their Ford of Europe in this respect.
Interiors will be the same. It costs MUCH less to simply have a common interior of soft-touch foam-plastic than it is to engineer both a soft-touch foamy plastic dash, and an injection-molded Tupperware dash.

The main difference will be suspension tuning and feature content. HIDs on a Fiesta? Probably not, at least not for the Ford version. The Euro suspension tune will still be available (think Sport model or trim), but the normal models will be somewhat looser.
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