J-150
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Time to start conning Chinese investors.
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I agree, they may be old as the hills, but Dodge manages to inject a little more excitement into them every year which keeps them relevant with their the target audience. ...and I'd love a Challenger.
LX mafia?
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I always see a ton of Flex when Im in SW Michigan. Seems popular with the summer home crowd. I love ours. Like has been said, Id buy another but hard to justify with practically no updates. (And I prefer the original grille).
Im hoping the Bronco appeals to me otherwise the replacement to our Flex will likely not be a Ford.
Theres really nothing out there like it.
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I'm sure it's mostly fleet/rental at this point, though.
What fleet buys these over an SUV or van?
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Raise it up 2-3 inches, give it some "offroad cladding" and boom!! Ford Fusion 5 door hatch is your new "white space" CUV...
The Venza didnt sell worth beans while Toyota sold tons of Highlanders and RAVs
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No unions!
What many dont realize is the volume of Toyota workforce that are temps that make far less than the quoted hourly rates.
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I could see that.
Personally I'd rather see a Ford Boxster.
And call it a Capri?
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It may be as simple as added volume for Ford. Let's say VW basically gets Ford to manufacture their vans in Europe and NA and that doubles Ford's worldwide volume which increases productivity and plant utilization and generates considerable per unit revenue and profit. That's a win/win for Ford even if they get nothing else from VW. Like Ford did with Mazda on Ranger and Explorer.
So do the p/u thing again. VW rebadges a Ranger as the next Amarok.
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Is it the new model or old one?
New one. 2018 "North" package.
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My company vehicle (RAV4) is in the body shop getting new paint from wind storm damage.
So Enterprise gives me a Jeep Compass as an equivalent.
No its not. This thing is garbage. 6 months old and the drivers door has a sag. The power mirrors go up but not down. The tranny up shifts to 2nd at 5km/h creating a huge power lag from a stop. The seats are abnormally stiff and angled upwards causing a great deal of pain in the legs. The ride is overly bouncy yet extemely stiff. The interior materials are cheap. Underpowered. Tinny sound from the speakers.
I could go on. I do ask why this even sells. The KIA Sportage is light year ahead of this for similar discount pricing.
Rant over.
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What a truck needs to do varies by the owner. For some, it is a trip to Home Depot once a month. For others, it is towing heavy objects.
More often than not, it is the former rather than the latter. If someone makes a full-sized SUV without the ability to tow 7k pounds up Ike Gauntlet, it won't impact the vast majority of the buying public.
Come to my neighborhood. You'll full-sized SUVs in tons of driveways. Not a trailer in sight either. It's mostly Connecticut moms trying to outdo the next mom while making their way to Starbucks for another iced latte.
30 years ago, we called them station wagons.
Thats still what they are for most owners. We're just not allowed to call them that.
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Just because someone on Breitbart says it's happening that way doesn't make it so. Canadian government and Canadian steel industry officials have pointed out that there's no massive stream of Chinese steel "posing" as Canadian steel for import into the US. And that imposing blanket tariffs on Canadian steel is further hurting their ability to fight cheap Chinese steel on the opem market.
Of course they would say that. Do you really think they would admit what they're being accused of?
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Regardless, it's building a fundamentally different vehicle with new tooling.
You make it out like its a NASA moon mission.
Oakville went from Tempo to Windstar to Freestar to Edge/Flex. Smooth transition each time.
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Jeep is proof that quality ranking does not matter as long as people think your stuff is cool.
See Audi, BMW and Mercedes...
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Did it really take me this long to figure out that TRX is a thinly-veiled reference to "T-Rex"....a la Raptor?
Just like the trin mevel namining convention of:
ST
SLT
Laramie
Longhorn (for a saddle leathered truck)
For decades now, i dont think Dodge/Ram has innovated anything in pickups or vans. They seem to spend their time copying Ford and GM.
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Make Pacifica a Dodge, kill the 300 and call it a day.
There can't be any stand alone Chrysler dealerships at this point to worry about.
Keep the 300 and sell it as an Alfa
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Did somebody say something about regular cabs?
I actually saw one today with a short box. Current model.
They look so strange now. Like somethings missing.
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Its amazing that people who dont own diesel or high end pickups think they know why people buy them.
Replace "own high end truck" with "use work truck for work" and you just described yourself.
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hackett is listening to guys like Farley who is telling him what he wants to hear and they are all screwing / juicing
Ford in the direction of maximized leverage and profit so that their huge bonuses will continue. All of which may
run counter intuiative to the long term well being of Ford and its products.
My question is where the Board is in all of this. Historically, the Board has wielded significant power at Ford as the family wants input into the long term success of their fortune.
It's great that Bill thinks Hackett is "da bomb" but where is the rest of the Board and family in keeping this sinking ship afloat?
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Versailles...
LOL
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And gas hog's.
Not hogs. Pigs.
Drank like pigs. Handled like pigs. Accelerated and braked like pigs. No wonder so many small contractors went to pickups with cargo trailers.
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Its probably something that wont be held against him at a new employer but probably made it too awkward to stay at Ford.
Ford gets to look like a hero by applying HR rules to executives while keeping Nair working for them.
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Maybe his parting was amicable after all. No way he would be at a supplier without Ford's approval.
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I know I won't be getting an SUV of any type, I have no need for one. It's Ford's quality that drove buyers away. Take the transmission problems in the Focus for example or the spitting spark plugs in the F150, or all the recalls on the Escape. That's what hurt Ford. I know the F150 is the best selling truck but just think of all the customers that will probably never buy another one because of the quality issues. Just saying.
Luckily, the same thing is happening to Silverado and Ram owners. Ford picks up those customers
GM sells more trucks then Ford?.
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I must be mistaken. I was pretty sure it was here that virtually everyone hailed Mulally as a savior when he "right sized" and said "profits over sales trophies"
Did we revert to bad habits like Ford management did after Alan retired?