There were 2,000 ways to configure a Ford Fusion. Now there are 36

While its long-term future remains uncertain, Ford signaled that it isn’t giving up yet on its best-selling car when it unveiled the 2019 Fusion on Tuesday. But the refreshed midsize sedan, along with the 2018 EcoSport compact crossover before it, also illustrate the first attempts by the company to limit complexity by drastically lowering the number of buildable configurations.