Posted on 01/07/2007 7:50:16 AM PST by Flavius
Too late! I've already bought my last Ford.
Every time you buy a Ford, you're subsidizing the UAW.
I think I'll pass.
You drop built in market share Taurus for the Five Hundred and now this revelation?
You need to 6-sigma white collar brains.
Liar. He's scared spitless.
Steward: "Captain Smith! We've struck an iceberg. The forward decks are filling with water!"
Smith: "Hmmmmm. Get a crew together and rearrange the deck chairs on the fantail."
I tend to agree with you giving money to the Unions is funding and empowering the dems.
I will stick with my Vette. :-)
Trying to spin "playing catchup" into "innovative"...
they have no hope
Braggert.
I just looked at the "spy" photos of these on edmunds.com. More of the same, in my opinion. They'll be offering rebates within a couple of months of rolling them out...
You probably service it yourself, also. Nerd.
"Don't change their basic frames and footprints, but make them look and feel new"
Shades of Packard, Studebaker, Hudson and AMC. And we all know where they ended up. There already is a superior Focus, in the European market. Why Ford doesn't just bring that model here is something of a mystery to me. Why Ford chose to allow the Taurus, once the top-selling sedan in the country, to grow long in the tooth, be relegated to almost exclusively fleet sales, and eventually fade away, is yet another mystery.
Sorry Ford but I bought a Hyundai last week. It was because of the excellent quality, extended bumper to bumper warranty and mileage.
There's a formula for you. I'll keep my truck!
If Ford goes a lot of leftist causes are going to lose a significant contributor.
Fords strategy has worked for volkswagen/toyota/nissan/honda/mercedes
etc...
Take a reasonable car (insert one here, say VW bug/corona/510/civic/Bclass)
and continue to improve it, eventually it gets to be RELIABLE,
and people will invest in it...that becomes your HALO car,
and then you can build off of that...the idea of introducing
reliable,new cars at once although interesting, doesn't get
the bulk of buyers, housemarms, students, and work-a-daddies.
Corvette is cool cause they took the basic same model, and
constantly tweaked, and twaddled till they got the Z06 which
is almost as super as any car....I hope the UAW, and Ford
is learning that the unions know nothing about creating jobs that
will be successful in the market place....hopefully the UAW
is realizing that it is "striking" itself out of existence.
21st Century Edsel!
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