Ford today announced it will phase out most cars it sells in North America. According to its latest financial release, the auto giant will "will transition to two vehicles" being the Mustang and an unannounced vehicle, the Focus Active, as the only traditional cars it sells in the region.

Ford currently sells six sedans and coupes in North America - the Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, C-Max, Mustang and Taurus. Only the Mustang will be retained from that lineup. It is also believed that Lincoln will be phased out.

Ford will still maintain it's truck lineup which make up 90% of the company's North American sales.


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Almost seems like an April Fools release. The first two of my car news bookmarks didn't have it but the next two did. Maybe it's because the economy standards for 2025 and later were relaxed, the new diesel F-150 will hit 30 mpg freeway.

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By 2020, Ford also aims to have high-performance SUVs in market, including five with hybrid powertrains and one fully battery-electric model.

With this big hybrid push on the SUV side, Ford expects to go from second to first-place in the U.S. hybrid vehicles market by sales, surpassing current leader Toyota by 2021, thanks also to the forthcoming hybrid Mustang and F-150.

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SUVs are taking over. Want one myself.

... and then something in the economy will change and they'll be caught with their pants down, like *ahem* Chrysler *ahem* betting the fort on (large) minivans.

... but if you have cars sitting on lots not moving even with fire sales, whatcha gonna do

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I would have thought that they might keep the Taurus in the lineup for Police duty, but I suppose that if a Ford Explorer is good enough for the CHP it should be OK for most Police Departments.

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Police departments around here have been buying SUVs

we'll miss those classic Ford lines

Wonder if they will keep the police interceptor...

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After making the switch to an SUV almost 20 years ago, I can't see myself going back to a car/sedan. I drive a minivan now (Odyssey). Wife drives a Suburban. And we have an F-250 as well. Love the bigger bed on the F-250, but next time I'll probably get an F-150.

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As you age, getting down into a car loses its appeal - we have 2 SUVs and an Explorer SportTrac truck - all nice and high - easy in and out

The local PD, SO, and CHP all have a ton of Explorer/Interceptors. I've yet to see one Taurus/Interceptor, ever. I've seen a few Impala as police vehicles.

A fleet or service vehicle lineup is different from the consumer lineup mentioned in the article.

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The Crown Vic can't carry all the heavy weapons the modern peace officer hauls around, hence the SUV...

Gotta be tankful that gasoline is still relatively cheap.

This is already changing…

The Crown Vic can't carry all the heavy weapons the modern peace officer hauls around, hence the SUV...

What Crown Vic. It hasn't been in production since around 2011. Vics in service have been run out long before now. Hence the SUV.

Heavy weapons, LOL. If only.

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We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody matters or nobody matters.

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You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

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We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

Interesting. One of my old college roommates is a Ford dealer, I'll have to harass him about this.

Most cars that aren't trucks, will be the smaller suv's, Honda CRV, Toyota Rav 4, size.

They's smaller than a big truck, easier to get in and out of and haul 5 people easily.

I just got a CRV and like it a lot. 34 mpg combined, driving with a light foot.

CAFE ratings rolled back to the 1960’s ? Or course they will max profit.

GM is sure to follow Ford's lead.

I bought a Chevy Impala in 2015 because I was sick of the mind-numbingly boring Toyota Prius. I'm happy with it--very comfortable, drives well, plenty of pep for my purposes--but few others are willing to buy one. It has the biggest trunk in the industry but only holds a fraction of what I can put into the back of a Rav-4. It looks like they have already phased it out; they just haven't stated it officially.

My wife has an SUV--a Sorento--, so I don't see a need for an SUV. They are so practical. I just don't like they way they handle.

......if you watch 'Law & Order: SUV'......that is why most don't want an SUV.....

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True story - I was reading this story on my iPhone, and the in-line ad was for a Ford that was being discontinued...

Seriously, Ford thinks car ownership in the US is going to be in the past. They made the transition to hybrids before all but Toyota.

Moving to electric vehicles is next, rapidly by autonomous vehicles.

Our next purchase is a plug-in hybrid SUV because we need one in the next year or so, and we are not quite ready to buy a Tesla Model 3



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Looks like it's time to sell the F stock.

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We're down to our 2002 Tahoe Z71 and 2018 Toyota Corolla iM hatchback. I prefer our car over the SUV. The iM is averaging 35 mpg too.

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GM is sure to follow Ford's lead.

I bought a Chevy Impala in 2015 because I was sick of the mind-numbingly boring Toyota Prius.

H8ter!

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... and then something in the economy will change and they'll be caught with their pants down, like *ahem* Chrysler *ahem* betting the fort on (large) minivans.

Yep, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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... but if you have cars sitting on lots not moving even with fire sales, whatcha gonna do

Short-term, you're up cookie creek (barring any sudden changes in the economy in which case, as in 2008, smaller cars will suddenly sell like hotcakes and larger, high-margin pickups and SUVs will gather dust on dealer lots). Long-term, better styling would help a lot beginning with stronger differentiation between individual model lines. I'm a car guy and I have to really look to tell the difference between a Taurus and a Fusion and to a lesser extent between a Focus and a Fiesta.

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SUVs are taking over. Want one myself.

Watch an hour or so of the YouTube dash cam car crash videos to see how quickly and easily SUVs, particularly the smaller ones, roll over in relatively minor accidents before buying one. The various "World's Worst Drivers…" series of videos are compilations that skip the minor scrapes and fender-benders and only show the serious accidents.

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The question is how many variants of the as yet non-existent "Focus Active" will they have? I could see them even making different sizes of the Focus Active (their non-sports-car car).

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