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    Last Taurus rolls off line................

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

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    How can we expect a car company to turn around when the last unit of their radical and profitable top seller for years is rolling off the assembly line? As USA Today reports today and we all know, Ford simply abandoned it! In the late 80's and 90's they abandoned class 8 (C-series and L/A-series), farm tractor, Thunderbird, Taurus and wondered why sales went down! Then they sold them or ended production, whatever the case may be. You can't turn around a company by shutting plants! You have to produce and sell vehicles and not only be happy with 100,000 sellers! You need to keep the 50,000 sellers too! Sad.

     

     

    Your right dude, it is a very sad day indeed that the Taurus is now gone. So many people will be happy to slag that car off and rip it to bits , but its not the Taurus fault that it became so lame, that was Ford Motor Companys fault. The Taurus was a EXCELLENT car in its time and it shaped the cars of the future. I will miss seeing new Taurus gracing our streets. Shame Ford was so lame into thinking that they could make billions of pounds in profits from SUVS forever, how damn wrong they were.....

    The worsed CURRENT Ford Motor Company Product

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

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    Mazda B-Series is horrible

     

    Ford Ecovan...nastly cheap japanese product

     

    Ford Icon...horribly outdated 1980s origined Fiesta! OLD OLD OLD

     

    Ford Ranger...old, cheap, totally outdated(sorry all you Ranger fans!)

     

    Mazda 2.... JUST a box on wheels

     

    Ford Focus North America...totally outdated old, needs replacing NOW!

     

    Jaguar X-Type, poor materials, outdated, get rid!!

     

    Ford Freestar and Mercury Montery- Thank god they have been axed!

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    Did ya Miss me?

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by turbo_diesel_focus

    I'm at work right now...I have to work on getting the photos up later today of the stuff I want to show you...

     

    Some impressions...

     

    Spent most of the week cabbing to the destations I needed to get to and 95% of the cab products where Fords. Made sure to keep an eye on interiors, and well from what I've seen in the States vs UK, there isn't that big of a difference IMO in plastics. For example the newish Mondeo cab I got I ride in, has the same exact black plastic on its doors that my Mustang has! The Focus wagon I went in didnt have any huge improvements over what my 02 SVT Focus had.

     

    Most popular US based product based on my sightings:

     

    PT Crusier then the Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee! I saw nearly dozen PT Crusiers the whole week and about 6-8 Cherokees and Grand Cherokees while I was out and about...I was also slightly suprised to find as many SUV's, well mostly smaller SUV's like the RAV4 over there as I did. The Cherokees where Deisels, so that helps explain why they where popluar I guess.

     

    UK cars vs US cars, in General. Well Since I was pretty dependant on mass transit to get places, I got a good feel for why Uk/Euro does things vs the US. I live in New Jersey, which has the highest population density in the work per sq mile, so I can roughly compare it to Europe, which has similar popluation desity. My first impression is that, at least in the UK, everything is at least 3/4 or even 1/2 the size it is in the States. Not to mention also that everything is more or less built up in large population centers, where owning a car isn't a nessitly like in the states, where the vast majortiy of people live in spread out subburbs with little to no mass trasit. It basically boils down to that car is a luxury item in Europe, where as in the States, it is a nessitly that gets water down, much like buying a washer or dryer...its bought because its needed, not because someone wants to make a statement or what not with it.

     

    Funny Story, well to me...I met up with a couple UKer's that I met previously in the States...one was one telling me about this new car he got..I think it was an Astra or something and was going on and on about how great the car was and it put out a whopping 205HP with a turbo 4. So I kidded around with my friend and told him...was I supposed to be impressed? I have a 06 Mustang GT, so I really wasn't. So this other guy I know who was orginally from the Netherlands, lived in the States for a period of time and now lives in the UK starts to defend him and I turn around totally shut him down by saying this: Ok he has a Turbo 4, so to make things fair here, I want to add a supercharger to a Mustang, and what do I get? 500HP with a GT500 ;) that pretty much shut him up. :P

     

    The Brits can be a bit weedy when it comes to sport cars! Well, the fastest car I have got(garaged up at the moment) is a Mazda Xedos 6 2.0 V6! Nothing compared to your Mustang but in Britain(I spend alot of time there aswell as America!) hot hatches are very popular, especially GM Astras, Ford Focus ST, VW Golf GTI etc. But in Britain small cars are still king, Fiestas, Corsas,Clios, Polos etc! Their is a nice little market for BIG American cars, only people who want something truely "different" buys Mustangs, Jeeps, Town Cars, from specialist dealerships, the Lincoln Town Car is very popular in the UK as it is used by alot of Limo companies that has taken off recently.

     

    I love the sound of your Mustang, thats my dream car, hopefully once I leave uni in a well paid Job I will buy one(thats unless I get my parents to get me one first, which I know they would not!) The roads in the UK are so small, the Mustang would take the whole road up and scare all those Fiestas and Corsas to death, American Roads are massive and can accomodate big beasts, I love driving my old but fantastic 1995 Ford Crown Victoria V8 down the high way cruising and driving in comfort! But its kind of not well at the moment, so i mite have to confind it to the graveyard! But I certainly get anotherone tho!

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    Flint: Ford Giving Up On The Ranger ?

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

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    I bet they will replace the Ranger, since they at last minute 'saved' the Town Car. Which I think they never really planned ot kill, just wanted to get some attention to the car.

     

     

    The Town Car certainly has generated alot of attention over its "apparent demise", looks like Ford will try the same with the Ranger and see how much interest it gains. I dont see how Ford can possibly afford to axe the Ranger. They have spent hardly any money on it over the last 20 yearts, tooling paid for, they must make loads of money on it. The Town Car makes Ford a cool £1 Billion, I am sure the Ranger makes a huge ammount aswell. Ford Motor Co has been caught out now for not revamping their products for years and thinking people will put up with halfed arsed, lazy and tired designs, which is the MAIN reason they are in so much shit now..

    Did ya Miss me?

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

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    I spend alot of time in England and my Dad drives a Focus C-Max, he loves it, very spacious, very reliable and very economical. He has a 1.8 Turbo Diesel, gets 40+ miles per gallon! I love driving it! Hers are some pics...got some pics of the Fiesta ST and Focus ST aswell, very popular cars in England, The Focus sells on excess of 130,000 units a year in the UK alone, making it the best selling car by far!!

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    Lincoln MKX Starts Just Under $35K

    in Lincoln Nautilus / MKX Forum

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    Undercuts the RX by $2500.

     

    This will definitely stir some interest. It's a good looking CUV, IMO. Clean lines--smooth transitions, like the Edge, it's a creditable design, inside and out.

     

     

    It certainly will do some damage to the Lexus RX, I personally think its really quality, clean looking car from Lincoln. With the Lexus RX selling around 100,000 a year, the Lincoln will surely take alot of those sales. Hopefully Lincoln will get their sales pitch back up to the 150,000 soon enough. Its been along time coming tho! With a new Navigator/MKZ AND MKS all arriving I really hope Lincoln gets back to the top, I dont see any reason why they cant be back up with lexus and Cadillac.....

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