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  1. Exactly, the only way I can see ford reentering the sedan market in North America is if they make something like a mustang sedan. Something that's seen as a more aspirational product with a higher price point and more substantial profit margin. Even if they sell fewer mustang sedans, it makes more sense than bringing back the fusion or tarus.
    3 points
  2. People with 2 strikes probably shouldn’t poke the bear….
    3 points
  3. Michigan Assembly, where the Bronco and Ranger are made, is expected to produce 1 billion dollars in profit for Ford. Not bad for low-margin vehicles. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2019/04/17/ranger-bronco-expected-drive-billion-dollar-profit-michigan-assembly/3495804002/
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  4. We don't really have a history section on this forum, so I'll stick this here. Detroit area guys will find it interesting. https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-case-of-the-misplaced-auto-plant/?fbclid=IwAR3U6C-xNCrV77o5cd4CrKwHvCOBJuFch9PGnywEV03eAv55YiQdZLw77s4
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  5. The crossover market will be commoditized just like the small and mid-size sedan market - hopefully Bronco and Bronco Sport give Ford an edge. I expect Corolla and Camry sedans to be around for at least 20 more years, as they have monopolized the market for practical sedans.
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  6. "bad for the environment", "wasteful", etc Boils down to trying to turn everything into a "rental society" that only really benefits producers of items since you can't acquire wealth (i.e. through real estate, etc) by purchasing things, your only renting them. How deep you wanna go depends on how big your tinfoil hat is.
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  7. I noticed one article stating the US electrical infrastructure is not up to date to handle all this potential demand increase. I am for going electric, but how will the apartment renters, people in trailer courts etc, be able to have EV? I know it's many years down the road, but if world will eventually be most of not all EV, these things needed to be addressed. The way my house is laid out, power coming in on one end and the garage on the other, with drywall ceilings and a patio out back and driveway and water/gas coming in the front, I don't see an easy, not terribly expensive, solution.
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  8. No-They are getting out of shrinking market that has almost no profit margin on it because its become commoditized. Sedan sales keep shrinking year after year
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  9. Even rental companies have switched to more utilities, they’re following the vehicles that most people now want to rent.
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  10. They replaced Fusion/MKZ with Maverick and Bronco Sport. They replaced Focus with Ranger and Bronco. Ecosport and Edge will be replaced with BEVs. If you don’t think Bronco and Ranger will bring in big profit on big sales you’re living in some alternate reality. They don’t have to outsell Tacoma and Wrangler to be highly successful.
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  11. This is great! Thanks for the share.
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  12. OK, let's look at just what Ford has accomplished with this transition- They killed off a bunch of low to medium margin cars and replaced them with low to medium margin crossovers, SUVs, and pickups... After spending a few billion on that transaction, what's that accomplish?
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  13. 7M No doubt the Louisville was a good vocational truck. While you say it had a reputation of being a "cheap fleet truck", I thought of them as "best bang for the buck". And your comment on the O/O market is right on. I remember an ad featuring some O/O who was 6 ft-6, and he was extolling the room in his new Ford. I thought .."great, how many 6-6 guys are there but you will never win over the majority whose ultimate goal is to some day have a new Pete or KW." When the new HN-80 was on the drawing board, I think had Ford concentrated on what they did best-vocational-they might have survived. then again with "Jac the Knife" Nasser in charge, the only thing that mattered was the financial return and a broad product mix with varying returns was the last thing on his mind and the heavy truck faction at Ford lost the battle.
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  14. Yes sir ehaase. Actually, it already is commoditized. It's an ever expanding sea of boring and/or ugly transportation appliances. Hatchbacks and wagons/estates are fusing with the crossover market. Examples include Focus Active and Corolla Cross.
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  15. Having spent a fair amount of time at Costco, I can report that most Costco shopping carts aren't even full to "water level", never mind heaped like mine. This is especially true in coastal areas where homes are small- At the Naples Costco it's common to see customers carrying their whole purchase! Yet the lot is full of jacked up four wheel drive SUVs and pickups that the owners supposedly bought for Costco runs and northern winter driving when they haven't spent a winter up north in years! Meanwhile I drive down in January from up north in my Golf hatch, fold the back seats down, load the heaped contents of a Costco cart, then continue to Home Depot to top off the lead...
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  16. Exactly and the Bronco can handle pretty much the same thing as Wrangler can off road and have a better on road driving experience.
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  17. I doubt the new Escape is much more profitable than the old (before the chip shortage screwed every thing up). Production is still heavily biased to the SE models and the 2020 models had $3K to $5K rebates.
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  18. Unfortunately, no one's going to address that issue until we're way too far down the road to turn around, I'm afraid. At that point, it's going to be a true cluster-#!!)
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  19. My employer didn't own many Louisville's, but did have few interesting ones. Early on we had an LT900 with a 534 in it. We also had a number of 1995 L8000 5 yd. dumps with the 'Ford 1460' Cummins 8.3 in them. I was told at the time we bought them they were some of the last Louisville's built. For that application we usually bought International severe service S series with DT466's, but Ford won the bid that year, probably because Louisville production was winding down. I remember in the late 80's-early 90's Ford tried hard to get a bigger slice of the O/O market with dolled up LTL's and Aeromax's. Lots of custom paint, chrome, and large Able Body sleepers, some splashy ads, and a pretty good slogan: 'Together We Will Run The Country'. It really didn't work, the Louisville had a rep. for being a cheap fleet truck. Which it pretty much was. However, the effort continued with the HN80 project, and believe it or not at least one long-nose LTL style HN80 prototype was built. It was shown at a couple of trucking trade shows very briefly before the Freightliner sell-out. When Freightliner bought Ford's heavy truck operation their vision was that it be strictly a vocational line, and there was no place for a Sterling long nose O/O style tractor. Always wondered what happened to that special HN80.
    1 point
  20. So basically Ford is giving the car buyers to the Japanese and Korean manufacturers and replacing them with Jeep buyers...
    1 point
  21. Once the Ford or Lincoln vehicle tracking site shows your vehicle has shipped, you can track it more accurately via this website. You don't need to sign up. You just need your VIN. https://www.palsapp.com/
    1 point
  22. I guess mine was pretty accurate up until the delivery oh, mine showed up was supposed to be delivered the following week but the dealer called me up and said he had it sitting there. Which didn't matter to me because for me it was like Christmas came early.
    1 point
  23. He ignores anything that disagrees with his preconceived notions. 30 days went by way too quickly……
    1 point
  24. SCHEDULING TOOLBOX - SCHEDULING PLAN This is the tentative scheduling plan for the production period. This is just a guide for scheduling. This information is tentative and may change at any time. THIS INFORMATION APPLIES TO UNSCHEDULED ORDERS ONLY. Blue Oval Forums_Production Week Scheduling_2021-10-18.pdf
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  25. Price Level Code 215 is simply the identifier for the first 2022 Model Year Price List.
    1 point
  26. Looks like somebody at Toyota took this BMW meme too seriously. I can't believe somebody in Toyota's styling department signed off on that.
    1 point
  27. Can you take the doors and roof off the 4Runner?
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  29. Trust me Paintguy. There are enough sheeple in the UAW that will vote for what ever the union tells them to vote. They are to lazy to do any research. If the vaccine works so well then why are the VACCINATED so afraid of the people who choose not to be sheep ?
    1 point
  30. This illegal mandate ( NOT LAW ) will be stuck down by the courts as soon as they try to implement it. Its called the 14th Amendment of the United States constitution. Equal protection clause. All rules, mandates, laws MUST be equal to every citizen of the United States. By making companies with more then 100 people force the vaccination they are in violation of the Equal protection clause. Look at it this way.....If you tell Jewish people they are MANDATED to get the vaccination, but other religions do NOT have to be vaccinated, that would be against the law. It is not being enforced equally between ALL religions. I really dont see how they can discriminate against people based on where they work. Also by trying to use OSHA they have to prove an IMMINENT threat to life to be able to use a workplace mandate. Since we are NO LONGER in a pandemic and have treatments and medications to treat the China Flu, I don't see how they can say we are in imminent danger.
    1 point
  31. 2018 when the plant that builds a magnesium dash reinforcement bar caught fire. I can't remember what it was specifically but they air lifted what good machinery they could salvage to England to keep some production running. I was working on the f-series dash line at the time so I had some shorter hours for a few weeks while all that got sorted.
    1 point
  32. It won't happen right away and usually happens due to removal of the lug nut with an impact wrench that damages the cover and then water gets in there and causes the steel nut to begin to rust. The rust begins to build up which causes the chromed cover to begin to swell. Two remedies come to mind; A.) Don't use an impact gun B.) Buy full chrome lug nuts and replace them when they begin to swell.
    1 point
  33. Nothing CR says about vehicles is a reason to buy or not buy them.
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  34. Subassemblies. That is the fatal flaw with this "American Made" index. It completely screws up the calculation and allows OEM's to manipulate the data. The domestic automakers have lobbied for years to fix this loophole in the AALA but they haven't gotten it done. (Southern legislators who cater to foreign automakers fight it, warning everyone that if they get rid of the loophole foreign companies like to exploit so much it'll be harder to get future investment from them.) Here is how it works. Traditionally, suppliers ship parts to a final assembly plant and the value of those parts is binned into foreign or domestic content, accordingly. Simple, right? Then some of the foreign automakers learned how to exploit the loophole in the system: Subassemblies. Here is how it works: - They can ship a hundred foreign parts to a building across the street from their assembly plant. (Think of things like instrument panels, wheel and tire assemblies, seats, under-hood components, etc.) - Those parts are then assembled "offsite" into a complete module, like an instrument panel. - So instead of a 100 individual foreign parts being shipped into the final assembly plant, the single instrument panel, with it's own unique "end-item" part number, is shipped into that plant. - Because that "end-item" part was assembled on US soil, the entire value of that part can be considered 100% domestic, even though none of the parts that make it up actually come from North America. It's a complete joke. The Tundra, in particular, is one model that does exactly that. The "real" domestic content was closer to 25% on that vehicle. They inflated the heck out of it with subassemblies. (I know this because I was a program manager on F-150 at one time, and was involved in vehicle teardowns of the Tundra and others so we knew EXACTLY where those parts came from.) Look at the attached photo. Note how the Ford plant is basically one big plant with skyways to the paint and body buildings. That's all you have there. Conversely, look at the Toyota plant and all the buildings surrounding that plant. Those are subassembly parks and they ship all kinds of foreign parts into those buildings and get subassemblies built there. Not only does that help trick the system in regards to domestic content percentages, but they also save a little labor because Tier 2 subassemblers make less than factory OEM line workers. Here is a link to one of those subassemblers in San Antonio: About - Avanzar Ford Toyota Plant Comparison.pdf
    1 point
  35. You say that about anything electric and/or autonomous regardless of feasibility.
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