I'm not going to sell my FiST if I can help it for a long time.
Otherwise, I'm really disappointed that Ford did this. I'm pretty sure that the transmission is the very reason why Ford was forced to discontinue their cars in North America. People who made the mistake of buying a Fiesta or a Focus (including my sister) quickly learned that it was a lemon and told everyone to avoid Ford cars, and even the Taurus (or whatever it's called now) gets a hit in popularity because most people don't make the distinction enough to realize they are fine.
I sincerely believe that if Ford had owned up to their shit transmissions and fixed them long ago or avoided them entirely they would still be selling cars here. And the thing is, the Fiesta is a good car. I'll be happy running this thing into the ground.
Article is old news gone over many times and there were lawsuits none the less Ford sold a shit ton of Focuses and averaged 50k a year on Fiesta’s.
I had a 2012 Focus with that trans and knowing what it was and how to drive it was half the battle. It was Dual clutch trans mission with electronic actuators for the clutches. Most people that drove expected it to act like a torque converter trans and that was the downfall. Yes their were glitches in the software but I used one for almost two years driving Lyft and Uber and racked up 40k on the car and it drove great.
I am not trying to apologize for Ford its just for everyone that complained there were probably ten that did not complain and had no real issues that the warranty would not take care and shit because of all that crap Ford extended the drivetrain warranty to 150k lol.
Ford stopped selling cars because even though they were not losing the margins were not nearly as high as the hand over fist margins on truck and SUV’S . The shareholders wanted results Ford was already weathering the storm over the transmission.
I do not know if you were around for the exploding Pinto’s era. Yup they put gas tanks too close to the rear bumper and when the cars got rear ended they went boom..
Car companies always have shit like this happen. I did make a comment about covering the legal fees earlier but truth is they could also write those off as cost of doing business. Lol
In the end its America’s love affair with all things big when gas is cheap that made Ford decided to kill the car line.