the Mazda sales guy tried to argue that Ford owned Mazda at the time and my 06 had a lot of Ford parts, and ever since 2008, Ford got out and it's been 100% Mazda. short of admitting it had flawed parts
My 2010 has FoMoCo stamped on all sorts of parts.
Sorry to hear about your issue, good luck with the Forester. I hope you got a good deal on it.