Muscle Cars > Chevy > Regular Japanese cars > ricers (i hate them, so much.) > Ford
and motorcycles are in there close to the top as well.
and motorcycles are in there close to the top as well.
Damn good points, and this is a lot of the reason why I'm anti-union in general.jonsimon wrote:
There are two reasons ford is doing poorly. Pension agreements they never had a hope of supporting, and the UAW. The UAW is not inherently detrimental, but negotiations have been abused to create trust-like restrictions on competition between the big three. As long as the UAW exists in its current state the big three will continue to flounder under self-imposed non-competition restrictions which foreign auto-makers are exempt from. Plus the only intelligent Ford was Henry.CameronPoe wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6298463.stm
Ford made a loss of $12.7bn in 2006 alone!!!!! Holy fucking shit...
How has Ford - the pioneer of modern mass production techniques - gotten into such a dire situation while Japanese companies go from strength to strength? How does debt like that even get financed!?
Japan has also surged ahead with cleaner, more efficient cars too. Did Ford not see that the only country that will be buying oil-hungry emission-monsters would be USA (who don't sign up to any emissions legislation)? The rest of the world is emission-conscious and most modern nations have laws against using certain types of vehicles - will this be the death knell for Ford, who didn't really do enough forward-thinking with repsect to this issue?
Damn stryyker, we have to take this all the way back to the factory now.stryyker wrote:
Muscle Cars > Chevy > Regular Japanese cars > ricers (i hate them, so much.) > Ford
and motorcycles are in there close to the top as well.
Doesn't mean we won't have a job for you, invent some kind of gutter which stops all the leaves falling into them (which is a serious fire risk), you'll be rolling in the cash.ATG wrote:
Thanks bro.
The only problem is, lol, my business is rain gutters!
Mayby I should move to Scotland
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Ford make one of the best selling cars in the UK
A true classic. Stand at any street corner for 5 minutes and you'll probably see about 50 of them.
Apparently they've sold over 10 million worldwide, but barely any were sold in the US.
A true classic. Stand at any street corner for 5 minutes and you'll probably see about 50 of them.
Apparently they've sold over 10 million worldwide, but barely any were sold in the US.
The Focus is alright, not exactly what I'd call a gas guzzler!
Apparently Ford Motor Co. already found a solution for their problems: according to automobilwoche, Ford is going to export European cars to the US (sorry, text is in German).
Could be a good thing: smaller cars, cleaner so less pollution, competitive with the Japanese models. And the Ford S-max was voted European car of the year 2007.
So, would you like to drive one of these cars?
Could be a good thing: smaller cars, cleaner so less pollution, competitive with the Japanese models. And the Ford S-max was voted European car of the year 2007.
So, would you like to drive one of these cars?