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I'll deal with you then, take this!!! Go ahead and ship these mother ers in by the SHIPLOADS! Then try and recoup THAT cost when you sell it... Go ahead, try! Your logic is flawed past the point of vehicle ownership.

Thank you!!!!! :happy feet:

Hey man, I used to inspect Stryker vehicles built down at the "depot" in Anniston, so I know that people there take pride!

You haven't been paying attention to the private equity firms that are slowly reshaping the auto industry have you? Take TRW for instance, firmly backed by the Blackstone Group, they are PIONEERING what's known as the "low cost country initiative". Dump all the parts plants in countries where its pennies on the dollar to make them and (just like big steel and big textile) BAM costs are wayyy down. Just because the current REGIONAL Falcon gets it parts from Australian companies (as it should ) doesn't mean that when the GLOBAL Falcon "platform" is realized that they WON'T use the LCC (low cost country) methodology.

Well, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Apple, Wal Mart, Johnson & Johnson, Marlboro, and LOTS of other BRANDS say that he's wrong, I agree totally. What America is selling (to this day) is the American Dream. Its getting more and more complicated every single day, but that's what IP (patents in general) are for, right?

Ok, I'll call your bluff, source?

Mullaly's a smart guy, and it won't take him long to figure out how to play the EPA emissions game. There is one HUGE flaw in your logic young fanboy, you're expecting leadership when everyone is headed in different directions. The other flaw is that there is NO USA developed passenger car diesel that is existent TODAY that passes 2010 EPA legislation. If by some miracle of the Almighty that the Global Powertrain operations came to a singular decision on a diesel platform, it would take 3 years (36 months) of GPDS before we even saw it in a mass-produced vehicle. The shortest platform for ANY vehicle using GPDS is 36 months, trust me on this one, I took the ing training young fanboy. EPA legislation kicks in 2010. Even if Ford started tomorrow with a GLOBAL Diesel Powertrain (remember, no more regional engineering, we're a global company now...) and somehow had the design and supply chain up and ready by 2009 (which would basically require ANOTHER $20 Billion loan...) and launched EVERYTHING by 2010, I'd buy 1,000,000 shares of Ford stock by Friday. When reality sets in and even the bosses in Europe haven't even CONSIDERED shipping current platform diesels over here (for sane cost reasons) you see that it really is going to be sometime AFTER 2013 that Ford will have their Global Diesel Powertrain up and ready for mass consumption. In 6 years, we'll see if I'm right or not, but in 2009 the first $20 billion loan payment comes due, lets try and work on one problem at a time...

Okay, one at a time, here, for this one, yeah, go ahead, make the extra charge to import these bad boys and see if anyone can afford it once its put inside a car.

Okay, taken ass a whole, you don't know what's going on with EMISSIONS not MPG. You need to understand supply chain before making wholesale statements about what people buy. Here's how misguided they were in 2003 Here's what's coming in 2010 A lot to learn have you, young fanboy... P.S. in 2010 when the rules come out, it will take 3 years MINIMUM to make it economically viable. This is law, not some misguided Presidential Candidate loser sulking over getting his ass handed to him...

Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah ... work sucks ... Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Royal Oak Ford sucks anyways...

Well what Kuzak is after is the low cost supply chain that starts in Bangalore and runs through Shanghai. He's not interested in the "vehicle" per se, just where they get their parts...

Diesel is going to be too expensive to develop a reasonable business case through 2013 when the EPA has "run out of ideas" as how to make the engine more "clean". Not to say that they can't dream up new ways to waste money, but what the hell, this current crop of politicians doesn't have a problem with inconvenient "truths" as it is. It is WAY more cost effective to buy an engine from someone who has already figured out things like development and supply chain of Diesel Particulate Filters and Selective Catalytic Reducers (like Bluetech, where I still can't seem to find a place to fill my piss tank...) The Diesel fanboys around here really need to wake up to reality that it won't be a viable technology (for on-road passenger cars) until 2013 at the EARLIEST!!! Want a diesel, get a Freightliner...

I've said this before and I'll say it again, Jag engineers ARE Land Rover engineers, they just have the luxury of working on the Jag til its near perfect, then spend the rest of their 60 hour weeks on Land Rover. I mean seriously, look at the quality between the two, its night and day...

You guys think what they have is fugly now, wait until something called "Signature HMI". Yeah, you've been warned... How do you feel about the color blue...

Even with the good news, and I'm not bashing the good news or those that caused the good news. What I REALLY want to see is what happens when the mortgage comes due. A good 3MIS survey does not profits make. Even so, it would take a sheer miracle for anyone that has ZERO clue about how a Ford dealership is owned or operated, to NOT feel these emotions after going through the "process": shame, embarrassment, terror, afraid, and/or apathetic. This is going to HAVE to be the next step in this recovery, getting the asses in the showrooms and out with an ACTUAL sale, not a walkthrough.

All good news, its great to hear that Design for Six Sigma efforts based on the Ed Deming work is actually paying dividends. Now we just need to trim the dealer network by 40-50% and retrain/replace all the assholes and loan sharks that work there and NOW we've got a company!

There is a "midsize crossover" that has a project name similar to the Fusion (CD 3XX) that is VERY closely related to the Mazda CX-7, given that the CX-7 has been such a hot seller. For the people in SE mich, take a cruise on Mich Ave from Outer Drive east to Evergreen and you'll see a Mazda CX-7ish looking Fordmobile with the camos on in a black iron gate fenced off area on the south side, kinda across from Andiamos. Enjoy! P.S. This is what Mark Fields kept talking about surprises...

This just in from the NO department, with all the factories that American automakers have closed, they have fewer overhead creating the same resources. In other news when you take the same numerator divided by a smaller denominator you get a LARGER quotient. HOLY MATHEMATICAL GENIUS BATMAN!!! Nothing to see here, move along, move along...

You see, I've got my eye on this really great patent that Ford Global Technology, LLC owns, and if they don't pay the mortgage, I get a chance to bid on it!!!

Ethanol is about as much of a savior for the auto industry as Congress is... Diesel and its bio-equivalents AND electric will...

Reality called, he said you need to pay your rent with something other than, what did you call it last time, "hope"? ...

To be fair, it was the SUPPLIER, not Toyota that has the problem... I'm not a Toyota CAR lover, rather I love the Toyota Production System... Ahhhh engineering...

No, No, No, you've got it all wrong... Microsoft is in bed with Ford with the Sync system, its called the Multimedia Gateway Module (MGM). This multi-touchscreen system is just sour grapes because Apple has a multi-touch iPhone coming out next month. You guys are mixing industries, bad people!

Don't pay attention to the sales numbers, pay attention to the MORTGAGE that is coming due... They could have triple digit sales increases and it won't mean crap if they can't pay the mortgage...

Ethanol Boosting System huh? Yeah, we can all drive these things when gas is cheaper and food is more expensive... Ethanol = $80.00 Steak/Chicken/Pork/Anything that has to do with Corn