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It’s fair to say that at the Ford Motor Company, they’re obsessed with the Toyota Camry. It was far and away the most-mentioned competitor at the launch of the latest Fusion—and of the previous model. The Toyota Camry, after all, has been the bestselling car in America for years—even the tsunami in Japan couldn’t keep it out of the top spot—but those with long memories will recall that the Camry toppled the Ford Taurus to take that top spot. Maybe that has something to do with it. You might expect that in redesigning the Fusion, Ford’s Camry competitor, Ford would hew closely to the number-one rival’s playbook. But Ford did not. Instead, the new Fusion very much follows Ford’s own playbook.