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BY DANIEL PUND
August 2012
C&D
It was during his hair-earmuff period, circa 1980, that soft-rock belter Neil Diamond, in his paean to immigration, America, growled:
Freedom’s light burning warm!
Oh, actually forget that. That’s just our favorite part but not, strictly speaking, pertinent in any way to the 2013 Dodge Dart and 2012 Ford Focus. (A ’13 Focus was unavailable.) It was more that whole—
They’re coming to America
Today!
That’s the part where ol’ spangled-shirt Diamond has something meaningful to say about the state of the compact-sedan market in the United States. Each such entrant from what we now call the Domestic Three (Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors) has its roots elsewhere in the world. GM’s entrant in the class, the Chevrolet Cruze, has already made it big in America. Sadly, though, it also lost to the Focus in an earlier comparison test, so it was not invited back for this round.
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August 2012
C&D
It was during his hair-earmuff period, circa 1980, that soft-rock belter Neil Diamond, in his paean to immigration, America, growled:
Freedom’s light burning warm!
Oh, actually forget that. That’s just our favorite part but not, strictly speaking, pertinent in any way to the 2013 Dodge Dart and 2012 Ford Focus. (A ’13 Focus was unavailable.) It was more that whole—
They’re coming to America
Today!
That’s the part where ol’ spangled-shirt Diamond has something meaningful to say about the state of the compact-sedan market in the United States. Each such entrant from what we now call the Domestic Three (Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors) has its roots elsewhere in the world. GM’s entrant in the class, the Chevrolet Cruze, has already made it big in America. Sadly, though, it also lost to the Focus in an earlier comparison test, so it was not invited back for this round.
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