They weren't done for cost variation reasons. Ford Motor Company as a global organisation is in the toilet financially. Imagine justifying that you want to make mold and paint spray pattern changes to an inflight model upgrade, which as it stands has been your best selling car in 10 - 15 years.
Basically Ford Australia needs to deliver as much cash profit to Ford global to keep the parent company afloat.
Basically "if it ain't broke". I doesn't matter how 'little' it would have cost, it would have been a variation to be signed off on.
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