Eh, well I applaud your sense of morals but a company is a company and they're not always going to follow their promises to the letter. In the end Ford is doing what they think is best for the car to succeed, I genuinely believe that, not because of some conspiracy to keep those Yuropee-an furrin cars out of our country as some here have proposed.
That means some region-specific changes, like bigger seats and a lower price to make it appeal to a wider audience, which will unfortunately ultimately include people who only buy the car because they can't afford something bigger. Enthusiasts like us who are willing to spend 20 grand on a subcompact don't make up a very large segment of the population and trying to appeal to us as vehemently as you think Ford should would limit their customer base and cause the program to lose money, more likely than not. Ford is being realistic in their decisions and I think you need to realize that life is, as the cliche goes, full of compromises.
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