Hooniverse Asks- Acknowledging Edsel, What Tainted Car Name Will Never Again be Used?

..but we all have the awesome new Focus RS, surely the spiritual succsesor tot the big winged 4WD Escort Cosworth of the 90s? (it was really a sierra cosworth in an escort lookalike shell ,there were FWD Escort RSs too but that’s another story, they even toyed with a MK5 RWD RS2000 variant using a Cosworth shell and NA 150bhp 2 litre which the now defunct but awesome CCC magazine tested favorably, but it never saw production as it would have been too expensive). OK, the Focus, it’s not RWD, I’m just pointing out the Escort was at it heart an average bread and butter car for Mr. Average with some go-faster versions and there and the Focus is actually the continuation of that unbroken bloodline. To European eyes, the Focus IS the new Escort, in all but name, it hard to see where an Escort would fit in to a current ford line up, except perhaps as a move upmarket, not as a cheap saloon, but a retro FR-S/Nissan IDX sort of sub mustang coupe, but that idea was knocked around on here previous. Nice, but what platform would you stick it on, and does it make sense when the ecoboost ‘stang exists? It sort of makes sense that a modern escort RS successor should be 4WD too because all the modern WRC cars are 4WD, but they’re also usually a class down nowadays (like the VW Polo) and 1600cc, so really they should be making a 4WD Fiesta RS too, but that’s another story.