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Obviously, J-150, you must be one of the smart managers at Ford.....Keep up with that mentality and you'll be on the unemployment line with many of your co-workers. Now, its clearer to me why the Company can't get out of its tail spin with rocket scientists like you working there. Please shed more of your wisdom on the buying public. You'll only make Ford's stock drop closer to zero.

Many Many Great and Valid Points on this thread. I agree whole heartedly. FORD MGT NEEDS TO START PAYING ATTENTION TO THE CUSTOMER - No wonder why their market share is tanking. The mass produce boring underperforming cars and can't understand why the don't sell and they only selectively build hi po cars for the "select few" Common sense says - If you can sell 20,000, 30,000 or 50,000 GT500's - build em. By only building 10,000 units, the only people they are hurting is themselves - the dealers are the ones putting the ADM in their pockets, not Ford...Who's driving the bus over there? The NADA? And all the while they are pissing off their dwindling customer base....Ford - go to history class....look at what happened to Nissan after the 300Z went bye bye - they tanked....You need a halo car to pull the masses to the showroom....a very limited production hot product don't cut it. I am a longtime Ford customer who has the $$$ to buy a GT500 and pay the ADM - BUT I WON'T - I am not a fool. I was planning on buying a GT500 but I will NOT pay anything over sticker. If I end up having to wait 2 years until all the fools have left the building with empty wallets, then I will consider a GT500, BUT by that time Dodge will be rolling out the gorgeous Hemi Challenger and the new Camaro will probably by ready to go....I will probably need to reconsider - the not so new styling of the GT500 or a hot new Chrysler or Camaro...tough choice.....I may well go to Mopar. Ford needs to hit while the iron is hot.....build build build and it will sell sell sell...as well as reacquaint buyers to other Ford products... FORD MGT - Go back to Marketing 101 and maybe this time you'll learn something Furthermore, I watched portions of the interview of Jim Owen, the Mustang Brand Manager. I am totally unimpressed with him and what he had to say. If he is towing the company line and Ford is full of managers like him, the company is DOOMED. If he worked for me, I'd fire him in a second. He answered questions more like a politician than what I would expect from upper management. Its very sad. ....time to get out the life preservers....this boat is sinking

I've been a subscriber to Motor Trend since the 1980's. After seeing their choice for the (so-called) truck of the year. I've decided to finally cancel my subscription. I can't even consider that thing a truck - it looks like a plastic toy with a weak engine. Its ugly, mainly plastic and not truly functional as a pickup. I've grown increasingly tired of reading the MT articles which endlessly praise any import. Never a negative comment or slight. They save all their venom for the domestics. I really got tired of hearing how the SN95 Mustang was on a aged platform...blah blah blah.....but you never heard a comment like that about the Porsche 911. Just because the writer can't afford it, its GREAT. For this year's truck of the year competition, if the Lincoln or the Dodge had an import log on it - it would have won. I am no longer interested in what those idiots at MT have to print. The biased reporting is a disgrace. Unfortunately, the general public never "gets it" and they go right along believing that these imports are so superior to the domestics. Boycott the mags and let them sell thet crap in Japan.