Comments on: 2010 Ford Fusion & Mercury Milan Pricings

By: chrisis

chrisis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:20:08 +0000

Lovely car. I think it really competes well with the Camry and Accord BUT…

The damage has been done to the brand. No one trusts Ford over Toyota or Honda now a days.

By: net40

net40 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:49:06 +0000

Any foreign car can get 38mpg already. I was expecting a Ford hybrid could do much better, after all its been under development for nigh on 40 years now. Other people are hooked to the Ford logo like its a church I guess. I just want fuel efficiency … this century.

By: Attagirl

Attagirl — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:01:05 +0000

You know that even with a tax break at the end of the year, is this incentive enough to go ahead and take the risk buying a new car. I think not, as the unemployement rate continues to increase, there is not enough incentive to buy and the banks have pretty much halted loans for anyone with less than perfect credit even though some debt might be old and the people still need to get to work.

I have yet to see that spending the money on a hybrid would be beneficial enough. For example, I would love to go with an electric car, but here in this state I live in electricity prices have increased so much, I am not sure that it is any different than paying the arm and leg we do for gas.

Give me a better incentive and I would make a consideration, but until some of the costs that have been markups for years (for no reason)come down, then I cannot do it.

By: tongyun

tongyun — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:41:02 +0000

Attagirl, what you say about the prices makes sense. Since everyone is tightening their personal budgets, why haven’t car prices come down? Isn’t that a simple law of economics? Because demand is down, supply increases and prices should drop. But consumers haven’t seen that. What’s happening?

By: tongyun

tongyun — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:58:40 +0000

According to the article, the Fusion and the Milan deliver 41 miles per gallon in the city but 36 on the highway. Are these numbers backwards? I love the idea of a tax credit to entice people to buy green technology but given the economy, I’ll stay with my current gas powered car which gets 30 in the city and 42 on the highway.

By: attagirl

attagirl — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:15:37 +0000

It really disappoints me to see that the automakers are struggling, and get a bail out but yet you do not see any decrease in car prices. I believe that they jump to high and for the mere profit factor and that if they lowered the prices on these cars that they would find more sales.

The car is sharp but I cannot see anytime soon the ability to go and buy one.