This car was designed to fill a 500-dollar price gap in the Ford lineup.
And given the huge price gap, they have increasingly become the machines of choice.
But those price gaps and disparities are shrinking, market data shows.
"Historically, we have had a huge price gap," she said.
But utility executives say the price gap is still too wide.
Within a year of a project's completion, the study found, the price gap narrowed to only 2 percent.
That could help narrow its price gap with American models.
But the executive said that the price gap would not necessarily continue.
Those kinds of price gaps can turn a profit to a loss in an instant.
If the price gap closed, the fund would make money on both trades.