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Maybe that was it. I just remember thinking how disproportionate it looked compared to the current Screws with the 5.5' bed.

Better than "Crash"......

Thank goodness my kids are in high school and college so I won't need the extra doors 95% of the time. Did Ford use a shorty bed (like 5') on some supercrews in the past? I thought I had seen several supercrews with weird proportions and a bed that looked much shorter than the current 5.5' bed.

If you can't sell more than 2000/month then it must be killed.......

I grew up on short bed single cab F-100s back in high school in the late 70s. In fact I plan to find and restore a 77 F100 Ranger XLT short bed single cab one day, but I digress........ I never liked supercrews until the 05-09 models and even then I wasn't thrilled about them. But the 11's look great and they slowly grew on my. My wife also likes the supercrews better so now I'm sold. I'll try again in the fall. Now I'm waffling on the Race Red vs. Ingot Silver. Decisions, decisions.....

Sorry, that was a general comment and wasn't directed at you.

You only have 2 options - continue the 2-tier wages or convince the veteran workers to take a pay cut which will never happen. With 2 tier you protect the existing workers (to some degree) while allowing the company to contain costs and compete with the rest of the industry. It's a win/win.

Ummm........NO!

Here is a very simple analogy. If you had the foresight and funds to buy 3.9M shares of Ford stock when it was $1.50, and you sold those shares last week for $14.50 - how much did you make? $50.7M. Would anyone here (including Mark) say that was too much profit? Of course not because it was based on an increase in stock price. That's EXACTLY what happened here. No more, no less. This was not a simple bonus check. I don't know the mechanics of the deal but Ford could have simply bought $3.9M shares at $1.50 and sold them last week, making Ford's cost more like $6M 2 years ago.

Waiting to see what comes in (if anything) in the next month. My $750 coupon expires 4/4. If we don't find anything I'll probably order the Ingot Silver hatch SEL base model w/light stone. This is for my daughter but I'll be driving it until she gets her license in June.

Dean - this was not something that was arbitrarily decided by the board. They didn't just decide to give them this much stock. This was part of their compensation back in 2008. It was deferred compensation - so instead of giving Mulally $4.5M cash they gave them a stock incentive - the equivalent of a stock option. Basically Ford said we'll give you 3.9M shares at $1.43 and you can exercise that option in March 2011. Had Ford stock still been worth $1.43 he would have made NOTHING. The amount was based on the stock price and preset in his contract. Ford made $8B last year - much more actually if you take away the debt payment. $100M is a drop in the bucket compared to $8B profit.

Really? So why didn't Ford make the same gains before Mulally? Weren't the blue collar folks working just as hard back then?

Fixed it for ya.

Why on earth would you run a MKT at a track day on a race track?

How many other CEOs turned their company's stock around from $1 to $14 in less than 3 years and what did they make?

And what were they selling in 1998? Town Car Continental Mark VIII (and it only sold 14K - much less than 2k/month) Navigator The Navigator was a rebadged Expedition. The Continental was a rewarmed Taurus. The Town Car still had some retail buyers but was heavily fleet. Nothing had more than 300 hp IIRC. No luxury features to speak of other then leather and power accessories. The Lincoln lineup today is so much better than it was back then, but the market has changed dramatically since then. Anybody think we should go back to the 1998 lineup?

He was only compensated with 3.8M shares of Ford stock at rock bottom prices. The rest he made due to the stock price increase which he was directly responsible for. Or to look at it another way - anybody who bought 3.8M shares of Ford stock 2 years ago would have made the same profit.

Wrong. He was granted 3.8M shares of stock options when the stock was near $1 (the article doesn't say exactly). The vested date was March. At the current stock price those options were worth $59M which he exercised and they kept $23M for taxes. This is the way stock options work for all employees at all companies. Had the stock not gone up he would have realized $0. By that logic Mulally lost $15M because he couldn't exercise those options earlier. I can't believe you're complaining about the stock price when it's up almost $15 in just a couple of years. Never mind - I can believe it because logic and reality doesn't fit with your biases.

A lot of dealers don't want the customer to know because they either don't have allocation or they used an unfavorable priority or they changed the order. I would prefer to allow the customer to order the vehicle directly from Ford and have it delivered to their local dealer where you complete the purchase. In that case tracking the order wouldn't have those issues (and you would bypass the dealer's allocation and priority scheduling) and you could do it via the web. Of course the dealers would never agree to that.

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Where did you see 2012s in stock??

I don't know but I wish he'd take Fordbuyer and a few others with him......

Exactly. Franchise laws? What Franchise laws?

By the same token, the Focus and Fiesta combined will take market share from everybody.