==Slowing Sales== 
 This text seems a bit subjective and has little to do with the Freestar... 
 "It was no longer competitive when Japanese makes had finally adopted the layout and size of the class-defining Chrysler minivans, and its early retirement also contributed to Ford's financial problems, as they had also discontinued the Taurus, Thunderbird, Ford GT and renamed the Ford Five Hundred back to a name more familiar to the buying public, reversing the "F" naming strategy which had failed."