Wow, before callingout Motor1 being trash , did you check all my posts and the sources? I clearly linked the source of the Motor1 article which is the FORD 2018 Brochure for sales, but I will link it again:
https://media.ford.com/content/dam/...S/product/2018/2017-18-ford-vehicle-guide.pdf
Maybe you can show it to your super duper awsome sales guys, to check if their inside word is that good?
Your motortrend link doesn't even work. And about your article from the Drive; all it states is that the next gen model won't come to America (and even then, as I mentioned before:
it's still not clear as the only intel came from European director and since he surely has no power over the decision taken this side of the ocean, he probably has solid information about it.. There's nothing about the current gen being or not for sale in 2018 in this article. Plus there is no publication date nor source link.
As for the fact that dealers are still ordering 2017, I find that really hard to believe. May be for US, but I made 3 dealers locally and they all said that 2017 orders are closed and that I had to wait for the 2018 models.
All add this article as well:
https://www.autoblog.com/2017/09/28/ford-ditching-three-cylinder-ecoboost-fiesta/