Realiability, marque ownership ...

[Todd Young]

Some serious NAC, but what the heck.....
Ford and Mazda co-ventures:
Explorer - Navajo
Probe - MX6
Escort - 323/Protege (look underneath the rear-end and be amazed at the 
similarities)
Ranger - B2300
Courier - B2000
Escape - Tribute (from what I understand, mostly Mazda design)
Next-gen Focus - Mazda 3 - Volvo S40

I'm a serious Mazda fan, but not a Ford fan. Mazda may be using some 
Ford engines in their vehicles, but they don't sound like Ford engines. 
All of my wife's Mazda products purr along, an old friend of hers had a 
newer Ford Focus with an automatic and waiting at a light I thought the 
damn car was going to shake itself to death. Acceleration seem to be 
quite the effort accompanied by a LOT of engine noise (and not the 
reassuring type of noise either).

Frederick Smith wrote:
> Think MX6 and Probe, a product of the venture a few years ago.
> 
> Smitty
> 

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Todd Young
7079 Dawn Ave. E.
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076