While You Were Sleeping: April 9th, 2015
Published: April 10th, 2015
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Alex Dykes, the hardest working man at TTAC, will be late with his review this week. He will return to his regularly scheduled timeslot next week.
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- Ford will extend the Taurus for the Chinese market – whether we get it is another matter.
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The 2 hatch is at the top of my list for next "new-to-me" dd in a few years.
I'm excited to see what comes of Mazda's styling and tech resurgence as their design language seems to translate so well from top to bottom of the range. The 2 should be a success, and even more profitable with the volumes allowed by its Scion/Toyota twin being essentially the same car.
I'd like to see a Mazda2 with the tuned 1.5L from the new MX-5 that makes ~130hp. As it is, 106hp is pretty lame for a new 1.5L engine. It may be slow enough that I'll be convinced to drop the extra $3,000 or so to get into a Mazda3/Golf/2016 Civic.
Ok Ford, here's what I don't get. If you're going to need a new version of the Explorer platform at some point - and I assume you're going to release a new MKS at some point, how much would it cost to do a Taurus for the American market? It isn't like the current Taurus (or future one) is on some exclusive platform.