[Osiris]

Originally posted by Egz:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Rob G:
Didn't Ford call it their first "world car" anyways?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I think there was something before that, maybe the Mondeo.

I think our Focus is an American version of a European designed and Mexican built car. Well, the hatches at least. As for the 4-doors...

</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">The first world car was the Escort. We got it in 1982.I think Europe had it a year or so before us.

The Contour/Mystique/Mondeo followed, but technically you could say the XR4Ti from merkur was before that one since its essentially a Sierra to the Europeans.