The Fiesta cane out in the 70s, ford have had 40 years to perfect their production lines to be fair...
I'm not a big fan of the subsidies as the do end up transferring money to the your middle classes, like subsidies for solar power for homeowners. What would be a better option though? Without Tesla we probably wouldn't have the leaf, bolt, or others.
I wish I had a spare 100k the model s is the fastest accelerating production car in the world, and does so silently and with no emissions. That's what does it for me.