Fords marketing department needs a complete cleanout, not saying that the Car isnt good but imagine if it had been marketed by the Expensive Daewoo PR machine. Holdens people are worth twice what their payed, how else can you explain 2 Cars, so closely matched, buy price, by quality, by dynamics, bang for your buck, blah blah blah, yet one outsells the other by nearly 2 to 1. How do you think Holdens people will handle telling their 40 something buyers of the Statesman that their gonna make it in China soon, I dont know either but I bet they will make it slide down like an Oyster Ah La Natural, FFS!!!!! Ford couldnt even get them to keep buying the Fairlane/LTD locally, basically because of how they were marketed, Ford wanted semi retired Bowls Club members and Expensive Daewoo wanted 40 something self employed / managment stock whos perception was that they had "made it" and owning this car was a statment about that, yes the death of Fords LWB models can rest soley in the hands of their marketing people! Sack em, sack em all, and then go and poach half of Holdens people. End rant. Oh by the way, HTF do they get away with marketing cars like that in the land of Litigation???????????????