Why Ford would be comfortable killing the Fusion

A 2014 Fusion on the production line at Ford's Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Flat Rock, Mich., on Aug. 29, 2013. (BLOOMBERG)

Michael Martinez

December 19, 2017 05:00 AM

DETROIT -- Read between the lines of last week's news about the Ford Fusion, and it becomes tough to see a post-2020 future for the car in the U.S.

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