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  1. Why is it that we have to choose sides on every issue and the only 2 choices are the extreme left or extreme right? I think it's a combination of fake news and confirmation bias perpetuated by social media. If you think the states should reopen with precautions you don't care if people die. If you think we should take a vaccine you're just trying to track me. It's ridiculous and needs to stop. Somewhere in the middle is all the common sense we seem to have lost along the way.
    7 points
  2. I don't identify with either party. If anything I consider myself libertarian.
    4 points
  3. Maybe they should switch to quarterly reporting.... everyone else is doing it lol.
    4 points
  4. Michigan has turned into a Democratic-Socialist Utopia! {sarcasm}
    3 points
  5. yes, and now the world is full of subject matter experts on every topic....even if that expert may have just discovered said topic
    2 points
  6. agree....remember when there wasn't social media and instant rush to judgement knee jerk reaction (judge/jury/executioner mentality) within 2 minutes of story going public. Seems like eons ago.
    2 points
  7. you spelled dystopia wrong
    2 points
  8. A $22K Fusion wouldn't even generate enough profit to pay for the electric bill at the factory. All this talk about needing cheaper vehicles now. If you just lost your job or are in fear of losing your job you're not going to buy any new vehicle at all. You'll keep what you have and if you have to buy something it will be a very cheap used vehicle.
    2 points
  9. Any time we are on company property we are required to wear a mask, even when walking from the car into a building. Overkill for sure but rules are rules.
    2 points
  10. Yeah, I’m not sure what happened because I feel like they used to be better about this. I think it is a major issue that needs to be dealt with. You can get away with not implementing major changes to the frame like Toyota has, but you must change the sheet metal and interiors.
    2 points
  11. Uh....clickbate article...they've been talking about this for YEARS
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  12. Wow! Ford spends money on the Chinese Fusion where it makes no money, only big losses, and has to share 50% of profits if it does make any. But in North America where Ford makes all its money they give up on a very competitive sedan that still sells in decent numbers. So Fusion customers have to go to GM, Fiat, Subaru, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Mercedes, Audi, and BMW to find a midsized sedan. Oh, I forgot there is no market for a great looking sedan fairly priced that offers AWD option. Oh Ford dealers want the Fusion? Who cares what dealers want. Bean counters at Ford know more what customers want. And all 11 other auto companies building mid sizers just don't get it. Sure. Right.
    1 point
  13. Sometimes it's just a way for alpha types to hijack threads and turn them into them and us battlefields. It normally takes a page or two for the masks to come off and the insults to really get going. We need some new vehicle releases to get everyone's minds back on why we're here on BON.
    1 point
  14. Autoweek was my favorite car mag back in the day. Always interesting and weekly, a great combo. Plus I liked looking at the pic of "Corvette Vicky" in the classifieds.
    1 point
  15. A lot of sites do that over GDPR laws outside of the US. They don't want to deal with user-protection laws. Many of my clients do the same thing.
    1 point
  16. Seems crazy now that we used to have to wait for the monthly magazines to see new models or get automotive news.
    1 point
  17. Nope, they stopped paper printing. And I had let my subscription lapse before that. I agree, it used to be really good. Over the last few years it went way downhill though. Like you said, biweekly, and when it did show up, 75% of it would be ads, and of that remaining 25%, 90% was motorsports stuff which I could care less about Literally out of a 100 page issue (or whatever it was), I'd have 3-4 pages of the whole thing I'd read/be interested in.
    1 point
  18. Well Toyota has also rapidly moved everything over to TNGA to get massive economies of scale. Ford meanwhile just lets things in each vehicle kingdom carry on for extended periods of time. Ford should have just cancelled the MCE of the 2019 Edge and moved to a new one in 2020 on C2.
    1 point
  19. A lot more people will me moving out of state soon if they haven't started already. I would love to but I can't right now.
    1 point
  20. Today’s Democratic and Republican parties are not the same old parties they use to be. The Democrats are now a Socialist party. In days of old they really promoted the unions, things were good and a lot of folks (us) got good paying jobs. After we (us) have worked our butts off for years they now want to redistribute our tax monies, take away our private health insurance and put everybody (and I mean everybody) on government run insurance. Now don’t forget that countries that didn’t fare so well during covid had government run hospitals. They also have a hard on right now for mail in ballots. I’m sure you can figure that one out. Although the Republicans are against unions they don’t seem to be as bad since Trump has been in and I look at what the alternative is to voting Republican so I vote Republican. If JFK were alive today I don’t believe he would be a Democrat. So don’t feel bad about identifying with the Republican Party because it’s no longer the party your parents warned you about when you were growing up. Oh, I forgot to mention about the Democrats being the PC police. So now if you fuck up and say hell, damn, or shit instead of being brought up front to the hot seat you get fired.
    1 point
  21. I apologize if too inappropriate but your comment reminded me of this:
    1 point
  22. Thanks, I hate it. Actually nah, that's kinda sharp. This thing might do pretty well for itself!
    1 point
  23. Commercially available foamy engine degreaser, or Simple Green and water, or even dish soap like Dawn mixed kind of strong with water. If you use the canned stuff, make sure it is cleaned off and *dry* before you start the truck when you are done. Diesels will run on any flammable fume they can get ahold of and you don't want the degreaser propellant or cleaner itself to get sucked in and have a backfire through the intake from the glowplugs, or runaway.
    1 point
  24. Ford actually has 4 sub-brands if you include Mustang and Bronco. F-Series and Transit are both sub-brands that consist of multiple vehicles marketed under the same umbrella nameplate. F-Series: F-150, F-250, Superduty (250/350/450/550) Transit: Transit, Transit Custom, Transit Connect, Transit Courier (and their related Tourneo twins) Mustang: Mustang, Mustang Mach-E Bronco: Bronco, Bronco Sport Transit is by far the most successful sub-brand in the car business right now. It's a family of 4 vehicles, 15 (at least by my count) bodystyles, and sold on all 6 continents and a key reason why Ford is still in business. If not for the fact that 4 door sedan market has collapsed around the world (with notable exception of China), I would have expected a Mustang sedan. And I think if Bronco Sport is a success, we will see more members of Bronco family by next generation.
    1 point
  25. Oh the outliers, this is what makes statistics so much fun. Depending on your interpretation, the data can mean different things to different people which can be misleading.
    1 point
  26. It's nice to get these tidbits but for the love of god just release this already. I know, I know...the dead horse is being beaten. Every other automaker is releasing new product information now, yet Ford is still on the pre Covid teaser plan that got a two and a half month pause. Out of all the new product roll outs from Ford in the last 10 years, from the stupid Bronco graphic rolled out by Fields to now this is getting ridiculous. We are at NSX level of tease. Sorry to rant
    1 point
  27. And it looks pretty dang good in that picture!
    1 point
  28. That's the most stupid post I've read in a forum for a long time. It takes not even 2 second to google this. Ford competed in Japan just fine for some 20 odd years when it was the top selling non-luxury foreign brand. The reason things ended the way it did has something to do with a guy named Mark Fields (yea whatever happened to that guy eh?) From the time Ford rescued Mazda the first time in 1979 until Ford sold it in 2010, Ford models were sold in a Mazda dealer network called Autorama. The rebadged Mazda and imported Ford together was regularly the best selling foreign brand. In 1995, Ford increased its investment in Mazda to 33.4% enough to gain control of the board. From that point on until 2010 when Ford sold the company, Mazda was basically a Ford division with Ford appointed senior management. Ford was essentially the 5th largest car company in Japan after Toyota, Suzuki, Honda, and Nissan from 1995 to 2010. Mazda ran into financial trouble in early 1990s when it had grand vision of competing with Toyota by launching a whole bunch of quasi luxury brands (some never got off the ground like Amati in the US). By 1995, Mazda needed another rescue so Ford stepped in with cash, increased its investment to 33.4% and took management control. Henry Wallace was the first Ford appointed CEO of Mazda. Mazda was floundering in Japan after the economic bubble melted in Japan and it had too many domestic brands: Mazda, Ford, efini, Eunos, and Autozam. Wallace decided to streamline the operation and focus on the Mazda and Ford brands and cut efini, Eunos, and Autozam. Mark Fields took over as Mazda CEO in 1999 and he made a couple more changes. He got rid of the commercial truck and pickup business and decided it made more sense to focus on singular Mazda brand in Japan so he ended the rebadged Ford models. At the time, that made sense because Mazda was basically a Ford division and no one envisioned Ford selling Mazda. It was the crown jewel of Ford's international portfolio. Until that point, Ford had a full line up of both domestically produced and imported cars for sale in Japan. Import: Mondeo, Taurus, Mustang, Explorer Domestic: Festiva (Aspire), Laser, Telstar, Econovan, Freda (Escape was in final development and would come later in 2001 but the decision to gut the Ford brand was already made) After Fields decision to gut the domestic Ford line up, Fiesta and Focus were brought in but they were never as popular. And so overtime, the Ford brand withered and became somewhat irrelevant in Japan. And unlike the Germans, Ford was and still is a mainstream brand in Japan. So unlike VW, which can subsidize selling Golf from profit generated by Porsche and Audi, Ford was sink or swim on selling Fiesta and Focus. It was more or less achieve similar level of success as PSA which was in the same boat.
    1 point
  29. The Bronco Nation forum is definitely corporate, they actually region-locked the website to US-only lol
    0 points
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