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22 hours ago, akirby said:
Hey look - a Bronco!
And in a Bronco thread of all places. The nerve of some people.
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3 hours ago, rmc523 said:
The Wrangler setup has ribs in it -
Because the owners are dicks...
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I'm loving it.
IMO, they've nicely balanced the Wrangler fighter with Shopping mall grade SUV.
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20 hours ago, blwnsmoke said:
Looks quite nice. Side profile looks just like an A7.
It's like they hired an Audi designer.
Oh wait...
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Chinese car company making Chinese batteries.
Ok.
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1 to shop in March.
2 more in April
Maybe 2 in May...
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2 hours ago, SteelyD said:
Any difference than the the Chevrolet pic on page 151?
GM launched the MDs with a grill design to match the outgoing model. The light duty pickups don't look like that anymore. Huge blunder.
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On 2/25/2020 at 3:37 PM, twintornados said:
GM built cab, Navistar chassis and nose.
Here is the Chevrolet version...
The grill/headlight design is already obsolete.
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45 minutes ago, rmc523 said:
He is?
“I’ve never heard anything but praise for Alan Mulally. He’s really highly regarded by me, by the board, by Bill,” Hackett said. “We spend zero time and stress about that.”
that is corporate speak for the reality that he is being trashed internally.
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Regarding Fields, he made a gamble that the economy was going to turn. Many agreed, including the Ford Board. If he ended up being correct, he would have been hailed as a saviour. He miscalculated and got fired.
Mulally was hailed as a saviour, now he's being panned for not factoring in lower gas prices.
Some people will never be happy.
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All this tells me is that it's time for Bill Ford to go away.
Navel gazing that Mulally had it wrong. Ignoring Fields who authored the Way Forward plan that saved the company financially.
Freaking revisionist history by spotlight seekers. Pass blame and take credit.
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12 hours ago, mlhm5 said:
By the time Ford manufactures its 50,000th Mustang Mach E, Tesla will have opened two more Gigafactories. One in Texas and one in Germany, both capable of manufacturing hundreds of thousands of cars a year.
Tesla is building the Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and Model S in the USA.
Ford is building the Mustang Mach E in a 56-year-old plant in Mexico which sure takes the American out of American made.
Building more factories does NOT equal having manufacturing and supply chain expertise on par with the competition. My original statement still stands. They have a great design, but they still haven't figured out how to produce it consistently in quantity with a level of quality befitting the price tag.
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Software may be 6 years ahead, unfortunately, manufacturing and supply chain are at least 12 years behind.
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Here's the reality. Once BEVs hit 50% market share, if not sooner, watch electricity rates skyrocket. Fuelling an EV will cost the same or more as an IC engine. N3xt step is lower gas cost from lower demand. THEN you will see some stalling on take rates. So 10 years? Not buying it.
Likewise, bans will be reversed as an election issue.
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6 minutes ago, twintornados said:
For those that are wondering, RNG is "poop fume" power primarily, but also from landfills and waste water treatment plants!!! never heard of it before...interesting indeed.
So that old joke of "save gas, fart in a jar" isnt a joke anymore.
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So it's really just another Thunderbird, Beetle, Fiat 500 kind of vehicle. Huge upfront demand for a statement vehicle, with significantly lower maintaining volume.
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49 minutes ago, ice-capades said:
General comment about Ford management... The Company with few exceptions has been badly mismanaged for decades. The corporate culture has been about Dearborn based executives making short term decisions that would protect their positions and bonuses rather than making decisions that would benefit the Company, the product and Ford customers long term. That changed with Alan Mulally with substantially improved product, better product development, etc. and then Mark Fields through out the Mulally handbook and everything went back to the way it was before. Mulally was the best CEO in decades and the best for the times. It's easy to say that he couldn't or wouldn't deal with today's changing market situation without discounting the forward thinking approach that served the Company so well under his tenure.
I'd argue they've had terrible leadership for over 100 years. They have survived in spite of mismanagement purely on the product.
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But is he wrong?
He was right about Sergio, Ghosn, Lutz, Piech, Schrempp, Ammann, et al.
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IMO, it's an improvement.
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On 1/29/2020 at 1:39 PM, chrisholland03 said:
Cadillac's styling recently hasn't been speaking to me. Or at least not saying much of what I want to hear. It's just bland. That's what I think about what I've seen of the upcoming Escalade too.
To me, Cadillac just feels like top-of-the-line GM. Yes its premium. Yes its loaded. Yes they are great vehicles. But they just scream GM premium. Not premium all on it's own.
IMO, Ford has accepted this is how buyers view Lincoln and have embraced it. GM is still chasing something it lost decades ago and will never get back
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Freestyle Redux
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On 1/25/2020 at 3:11 PM, twintornados said:
Lincoln Continental Mark E??
Or is it MkE
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22 hours ago, twintornados said:
I actually like the guy...he reminds me of a modern day Henry Ford in both ways HF1 was genius as well as crazy/zenophobic.
Closer to PT Barnum
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5 hours ago, HotRunrGuy said:
Heck, I'm surprised the vehicle made it to 146K,,,,,,
HRG
That C1500 I used to own is still on the road as I see it every once in a while. Probably has 6-700k on the odometer now.
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Bronco and Bronco Sport World Premier July 13th!!
in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
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IMO this looks much more like a Defender 110 than a Wrangler.