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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
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I can see why Ford dropped the Aluminum Taurus/Sable. At the time, there was no pressing need to shed the pounds and the added cost wouldn't have made sense. But, because of this project, aluminum use increased significantly in Ford's products even without having an aluminum bodied car.
But keep in mind, this isn't just an aluminum Fusion. It's high strength steels, carbon fiber wheels and oil pan, composite and hollow-steel springs, plastic windows, etc. While I don't expect to see this Fusion in production, I would guess elements of it will show up in Ford's product line when they work out the bugs in manufacturing them.