Ford Valencia couldn't live off the (successful) Kuga alone. Ford Valencia will retire early at the age of 53 in the heat of the fight for pensions.
An era, by the way, in which just the car with which Almussafes started in 1976 will no longer be there, according to Jaime Hernández. The ideal would be an SUV with hybridization, which is exactly the scheme offered by the current Kuga and which is the technology (adding hybrids with and without a plug) preferred by Europeans.