Originally Posted by
rotarykidd
ford didnt, kia made that car and mazda made the drive train (kia pride and mazda 121). it says "made in korea" on the firewall and on the aspire it says "made by kia motors" on the hatch, that should explain alot. and LOL cuz i still have a ton of the 14mm lug studs for a festy or aspire.
theres nothing really wrong with lug studs, my fb rx7 had them too and i never had problems with them.
You sound like a wikipedia. If I could buy it at a Ford car lot, Ford ok'd it to be sold under their name.. but if a lesser brand of kia wants to take credit for engineering the lug studs , so be it. Either way it was 80's engineering and on a ford.. which goes to show not only "high end" European cars are subject to the lamness of the design.