i think the 9 will come back in a few years. if it does it would probrably be a all mazda design. its gonna have to because big rwd cars are making a comeback. But mazda/ford/volvo will be sharing alot more platforms in the future, to save money. because the mondeo was gonna be brought to the US but it changed when they decided to do liuke most companies are doing now, and use the same platform with all its models. But the good ews is we will get alot more european styled cars, fords euro cars are alot better soem of the cars we have now. i think they should bring the probe/mx6 back tho..ford/mazda needs another compact to feel the gap.