[Flavius]

[SmithL]

Too late! I've already bought my last Ford.

[PGalt]

Take an old car and a bland one and make them better.

You drop built in market share Taurus for the Five Hundred and now this revelation?

You need to 6-sigma white collar brains.

[IronJack]

"I don't feel any anxiety about it at all because I think we've done a terrific job."

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."

[ErnBatavia]

Trying to spin "playing catchup" into "innovative"...

[Pukin Dog]

Sort of like a new bikini on a fat chick.....

[zacharycole]

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...

[RegulatorCountry]

"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.

[SIDENET]

[proudofthesouth]

Sorry Ford but I bought a Hyundai last week. It was because of the excellent quality, extended bumper to bumper warranty and mileage.

[n230099]

"Ford said they made the car more powerful while reducing its weight by about 100 pounds..."

There's a formula for you. I'll keep my truck!

[weegee]

If Ford goes a lot of leftist causes are going to lose a significant contributor.

[flada]

Ford isn't quite as bad as GM, but they do seem to be in the business of creating one debacle after another. I have an 1997 F150 with a 4.2L. Look up "Ford 4.2L Hydro-locking" on google--there are literally thousands of people with this engine problem. And it's just one of many for Ford. They can redesign the exterior until they're blue in the face and it won't fix the problems under the hood.

[dirtbiker]

I tend to buy a vehicle and then procede to drive the wheels off of it. I also tend to buy used vehicles (my last new purchase was a Subaru Forester, and I made the ex take the payment book along with the car when she left)

My Ford is a 1988 F-250 diesel, with 180,000 miles on it. Only my "new" 2002 Jeep has fewer, with 52,000.

Others include:
'93 Geo Metro with 215,000
'95 Chevy S-10 Blazer with 220,000
'87 P-30 Chevy/Grummon stepvan with 500,000 miles on the chassis (300,000 on the motor)
'80 Chevy Malibu with 200,000+ (converted to right-hand drive for mail delivery)
'66 International M-800 Metro-Mite with over 200-300,000 miles on it (I have no idea how many times the odometer has rolled over, only that I've put 130,000 of those miles on it)
Last but not least, a '80 Mercedes 240 diesel with 450,000 miles, only thing that's been changed is the clutch (3 times)

Personally, I like the Ford trucks more than their cars....

[blastdad51]

The American car industry has the same mindset it had in the mid 70s. They're building crap the consumer doesn't want and they don't know it yet. Their biggest problem is to cut cost they let all their engineers go. All that is left is a bunch of CAD design people who are trying to shoehorn a little sparkle into an old boot! Good luck.

[VOA]

Too late, Ford.

If you'd only pulled your heads back into the light a couple of
years earlier, you might of sold my mom a new car last week.

She liked the new Fusion. She doesn't like the instability of the
company that makes it.
And since she doesn't like the current Malibu...

she got a 2007 Toyota Corrolla.

[BW2221]

Meanwhile, across town for GM, the Chevrolet Silverado was selected as Truck of the Year and Saturn Aura was selected as Car of the Year by automotive journalists. Last year Honda took honors in both categories.

[RightWhale]

Picture your automotive product sitting in -40 temperature all weekend and then starting it and finding the heater is adequate. If the automotive product is a Ford, then you have chosen something practical. If Ford cars are not in this picture, perhaps a Toyota or GM SUV is.

[JoeSixPack1]

I hope all you morons that buy vehicles according to your belief of the manufacturers politics and not vehicle quality enjoy your free roadside assistance programs.

[Just Lori]

I heard a rumor that Toyota is thinking of buying Ford. Anybody else hear that?

[martin_fierro]

2008 Ford Focus concept pix

Yawn. They're doomed.