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Old 02-21-2013, 09:01 PM   #2
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I got an email several years ago about a Ford that was going to be announced at the November European auto show that they were predicting would get 80mpg. I remembered the email the next December, so I went online to see if it really was true. Turns out by November it was getting closer to 85mpg and they were for sale in Europe but not the US. The the VP of Marketing for Ford in the US determined that there wouldn't be a big enough demand to bother importing them. I went to the Ford UK website and configured one with every option available and it came to just over $22k.
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