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The cars all look the same (like lozenges) these days because of fuel efficiency requirements. The lozenge is the slipperiest.

A Corolla or Civic will generally be more reliable than a Focus, and have greater resale value. Compare a used Focus and Civic in the same model year, condition, mileage, trim level, and price. The Civic sells for $3k more than the Focus.

Exactly: these cars don't sell because they're unreliable; both the Ford Focus and Fiesta are on Consumer Reports worst car list of 2017. Unfortunately there are a few American SUVs on that list as well. So caveat emptor.

Ironically, they've probably ended up there for their persistently terrible automatic transmissions. Silly mistake for an American company to be making...

It seems like car safety standards have led

Don't forget about aerodynamics.