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Article: Chicago Tribune Auto Notebook Column.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- April 18, 2004
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Byline: Jim Mateja
Apr. 18--NEW YORK -- The reason Ford Motor Co. is going to offer a small, entry-level luxury sedan for '06 is simple -- it wants to stop the migration into foreign cars.
"Every year 50,000 consumers leave the domestics for an entry-level luxury model from the Asians or Europeans," said Jim Padilla, executive vice president of Ford.
"With Zephyr, we hope to get some of those 50,000 to stay as well as some of those in Asian or European cars to move over," he said in an interview at the unveiling of the '06 Lincoln Zephyr at the New York Auto Show.
Padilla also noted that sales in the entry-level luxury segment where ...
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