Back in the day, Ford made airplanes, too:
Posted on 03/26/2024 3:00:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Following the arrival of the all-new Ford Ranger in several international markets, the redesigned pickup debuted for North America way back in May 2023.
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In January, a grand total of 2,644 2024 Ford Ranger pickups were built at MAP, which represented an increase of 2,242 units, or 558 percent, compared to December 2023. That number grew to 2,871 units in February – an increase of 227 units, or around 8.6 percent. More surprising, Ford sold precisely zero Rangers last month, meaning that the supply of 2023 models seems to be depleted, and there simply aren’t any new 2024 models on lots as of yet.
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Some clever guy posted this on another site:
Old Ford motto: Quality is Job One.
New Ford motto: Recalls are Job One.
Sad to see how far a great American company has fallen.
DEI
Ford, Boeing, United Airlines, etc., they all have one common trait, liberalism kills....
It’s probably a little bit of everything, including the economy.
Fix Or Repair Daily.
I have a 2020 Ranger. It’s been great, moves out, looks sharp. Can’t complain. Who really knows what this delay is all about.
Accounting (and, I guess now DEI) trumps engineering.
I haven’t had a new car since the 1980’s. Way to expensive, quality sucks, all brands.
Back in the day, Ford made airplanes, too:
Union contracts are viewed against production numbers, not sales figures.
New contract = new production levels.
It’s up to Ford to sell them and recoup the payroll expenditures.
Ford is in business to make vehicles.
The union contract forces them to make jobs.
It's the entire US auto industry. It used to be the envy of the world. Now, it can't even compete in its home market.
We can rule out American labor, because American labor builds the Camry and Tundra. That leaves the corporations or the UAW, or maybe both.
“Sad to see how far a great American company has fallen.”
It’s a shame, really. A formerly great brand dying this way...
Big Auto got in bed with Deep State.
> Accounting (and, I guess now DEI) trumps engineering. <
I think that’s the bottom line.
That’s a Ford Trimotor. I’ve ridden on one a few times. Very basic transportation!
At one time a Ford Trimotor provided passenger service between islands off the northern Ohio coastline. We’d take it when visiting relatives in the area. This was in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
And many “American” car are not even made in America.
I looked around Buicks and Chevies recently.
“Made in Mexico, Korea, even China!!!”
None of the smaller, cheaper models, I was interested in, were made in the USA.
I think, only the trucks and the very upscale models, are still made in America.
Cars today are so much better than 80s cars it’s not funny. Manufacturers in the 80s were struggling with emissions requirements largely using analog controls that simply weren’t up to the task. Today we have modern engine management that’s all digital. Output and mileage are up and emissions are down.
Fix Or Repair Daily.
Found On Road, Dead.
Good looking mid sized truck. Owner of the company I work for has one and got behind me on the way home one day. I spent way too much time looking in the rear view mirror.
I spent a good part of my life not far from Willow Run Airport (by Detroit/Ann Arbor) watching the various air shows over the years there, many featured WWII aircraft of various kinds. One I’ll never forget is the bombers, there were about six that did various stunts as they all landed in a row on the main strip. Across the field a couple hundred yards you can see the old Ford plant where these bombers will built so many decades before, it was possibly the most haunting thing I’ve ever seen...in a good way though.
My house was about 15 miles north of the airport - and for a couple of days before the event the bombers flew over my house at a real low level carrying people for paid rides as this is how the owners paid to keep the bombers going.
You can hear the engines of the planes many miles away, they flew bizarrely low and at a very slow speed and you can’t see them coming until they are right over you - the faces of passengers were quite visible, that’s how low. The sound of those engines is something you’ll never forget (especially many of them) and not knowing which direction they were coming from. As a victim in those days knowing you might get bombed to smithereens and had a matter of seconds of life left had to be terrifying.
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