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I dont want to say to many specifics, but it should be another 25% in fuel mileage (on top of the top mileage now). One thing I can say is that Ford is having technical difficulties with the new design......lets just say it has not been done on this scale before. I would love to blab, but someone close to me is at stake. And no, I have heard nothing of the manual transmission. While I am at it I might as well say that ford is NOT looking at a tandem axle 750, Its a dream......and thats it. But this information is now, not 6 months when markets might change.
My updates only come 2-3 times a year. Thats when I get my info.....I know someone somewhere. While this person is vague, they do give me specifics in certain subjects like gas mileage etc.......
How about this......Ford didn't think they could break the 40,000 units on the Bronco...thats why we don't have one. I was told "it has to be a platform that produces a 100,000 units".
Chew on that for now....lol
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I know I dont post much here guys, but, according to some insiders Ford is taking a second look at bringing the ranger here. There has been enough outcry apparently to have management try to find a viable way to bring it. I am not saying they are bringing it, but I guess it is being re-looked at. Just what I heard.....BTW, you will be amazed by the new F-150.
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Got the FX4 Ecoboost and pull a fifth wheel ultra light. The engine has no problem getting around 17-18 MPG on the highway and its not even broken in yet. While I like the 5.0, I wanted to give new tech a try and see if its worth the hype. It is, and personally, I see no reason to go back to a V8 (ask me that when I start paying for maintenance).
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Hi guys!
I know I don't post that often but I am here almost everyday lurking. I need some help. I used to be able to find all the sales numbers going back to 2005 on FoMoCo and now I am unable to find any. I am writing a statistical report for my MBA and need the sales data. Can anyone please help me out?
TIA
Nate
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I shed a tear with both the Bronco and the Mercury Messenger concepts
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Went to the OC auto show last friday. I did the test drive in the fiesta, and looked at pretty much everything there, it's a yearly ritual. The fiesta has touchy brakes, but for such a small car drives good, but needs way more power. It was a 1.6 5-speed euro spec. The New SHO was great, loved it, but I still have trouble accepting it, compared to my 89 & 95. Really too tall, and no 5-speed. But it's a great and vast improvement. I love the fusion sport, seriously. It's not so big and tall, and about the same size as an old school SHO, with a 3.5. I'd go for it. The flex is cool, love the retro perforated leather seats and sew patterns, but wish it was just a touch lower in ride height and about 4 inches lower roof height.
My big gripe is this with most all the new cars at the show. Even ford. Too many cars are using this cheap ass carpet that looks like the trunk carpet of my 95 SHO. The fords were not as bad, but the depth and plushness is not there. it's really thin and light. Some literally does look like trunk carpet on some of the other brands of cars. I remember when my Dad bought a 92 Taurus LX, the carpet was so deep and plush, it left lots of little fuzz for a long time. Same with the 80's turbo dodge my mom had. In all honesty This to me shouts cheap. I know it's about weight reduction, but I don't like it, gives a car a cheap throw away feel.
Funny cause I was reading the post about gen x, I'm 30, will be 31 in dec, so not sure what group I am in. But I still remember the Lincolns, Ford's and Mercury's of the 80's and 90's. I honestly know technology has come along way, but I just find so few of the new cars from ford get me as interested as the Fox Mustangs, Taurus, Thunderbirds, of the early 90's. The new trucks just are too blingy, give me a 92-96 and that was ideal, ad not so huge. I feel like a little kid in my friends 04.
Most of GM stuff isn't too exciting to me, same with Chrysler. The Japanese imports don't feel that much better to me, although i never have been to big on them...although I love the German cars. They look fantastic as always, love the new Z4, but not enough to get rid of my 05. Love the 1 series. But my big thing is the Koreans, wow how far they have come. I still think excell when I think hyundai but man the genisis coupe is nice....although the leather and carpet seemed cheap. But the sheet metal was great.
Everyone better watch out when the Chinese come to the us, cause most consumers are all about the bottom line.
How low do you want the flex? I think it sits just right. Are you looking for more car like? Almost like a caprice station wagon? Curious to hear
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I think so many people who go on these car sites have serious delusions that RWD sports cars/coupes and sedans are going to return to their heyday of decades ago. They will not. If there was a market for a model above the Mustang then sure, call it Cougar, I would love that. But it is not going to happen, the market does not exist, at least it is not big enough.
Yea, those idiots down at Lexus that build the SC and ISC coupe and infiniti building that G convertible are practically bankrupting their company building these cars....plus no one wants them....
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http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2009-04/car-talk
Here is another link to begining stages of what is a similar technology. I think that this is going down the same road. (wow, groundassault did something constructive!)
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HAHA! I find it so typical of Union workers saying "why does he get more, I work too!" Remember Mulally is saving one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world, not driving a forklift or putting on lug nuts. He is compensated because he can save the company. Thats what he wants.......
For those of you that say well, "why doesn't he give it back"? or "If I made 5 million then I would retire"......that is exactly the difference! He has whats known as "drive" and "motivation" to make that money. Just because you feel 5 million is acceptable doesn't mean everyone "feels" ok with that.
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The Ford tractor business took up more in resources than it returned to the bottom line. The tractor business in general only has decent returns for those companies with much vertical integration and management focused on that business. Just look at how what was once Ford Tractor Operations has bounced around over the last 20 years. What are they now? Part of CNH, mostly owned by Fiat, and wanting a bailout for their financial operations arm.
And the heavy truck business. Sure, they had good market penetration and a solid product, but when it came to the money end the Louisville facilities could contribute much more profit by being reconfigured to build the Super Duty light and light mediums. And the proceeds on the sale of the heavy medium and heavy lines was icing on the cake. I was disappointed when it happened, because it was the end of an era, but I understood the reasons behind it. We must remember that Ford is in business to make money, and we can hope that they will get back into segments such as heavy mediums when they can make money doing it.
I understand about the heavy truck business because it would be way easier to get back into that then to go back to the tractor business. The thing that really irked me was that Henry Ford started Fordson because FoMoCo didnt want to have anything to do with tractors. He turned it into a thriving business that FoMoCo ended up absorbing. Cat, NH, and Deere have all made successful tractor business. GE is a conglomerate and makes all kinds of things from desalination plants to jet engines. It was the board that voted it out in the early 90's letting the Ford name be used to 2000. But it is a profitable business. Honda has a thriving small engine business; and while thats not the same thing, it just goes to show that it is possible. I still buy Ford Tractors, I realize it has gone the way of the Dodo, but to think that they had no brand equity by a customer buying a F-150 and a lawn tractor from the same reliable company is short sight. My dad is a AT&T higher higher and because of his Ford tractor, truck and LGT ownership he has pushed his company to Super Duties over the Silverado Heavy Duty......that is an impression. Look, I know that it is hard to have multiple successful operations, but its possible and I am still mad over it....lol
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I have put this before but I will do it again......Ford killed the Bronco, tractor division (very pissed) and heavy truck division.....this is why I bought a Jeep....so did my bro and two best friends and countless other friends......
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Ford is really showing who they are......Its as almost as if the whiz kids are back
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you get mothing?....one word....Raptor.
The Raptor is a specialized vehicle.....The reason Jeep sold 70-90K TJs a year and even more JKs is because of versatility. You can take the top off and go to the beach, load up the camp gear and hit the trails....etc. The Raptor is for Deserts and Dunes....basically all those Cali and Arizona people. Thats why the Bronco is so missed.
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And I thought the F-100 was cancelled or at least on hold.
Correct you are.........I am the biggest bronco fan there is and they canceled the F-100 which the Bronco was based on. The Ranger has its life extended and us true 4x4 guys (not you guys in pickups with BFG's, but us REAL wheelers) don't get anything....yet. It was originally being developed on the Defender 90 tried and true chasis, but since selling Landy, Ford is without a offroad brand.
There is good reason to think that Ford wants Jeep. They have been talking about it since 2002....Although I have not heard Allan comment...
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Bull
Some company will buy them out before they close the production line. And then they will cut 4-6 brands. Everything outside of Chevy, Cadillac, Buick (for China), JEEP, Ford and Lincoln should be closed this year.
You make it sound like no one will buy another car in the USA,
The group that will be affected most is the UAW. period.
The Big 3 refused to change to fuel efficient cars when they had a chance.
Now fuck'em. And that means I'll lose a few $K. And fuck me too.The Big 3 arrogances is they only reason I need to see them not to get aid from the Feds.
Wow, there is so much arrogance in this post, I dont even know where to begin........
Remember a little company that GM started called GEO? It was all small fuel efficient cars that nobody wanted? Hmmmm. Americans want what they want and it better be now.....
No one talks about the CAFE standards that the auto companies have to pour billions into and never ask Uncle Sam for a penny
no one talks about how 1 in 3 patents in the US are owned by the auto companies give to American technology
No one talks about how americans are forced to build our cars in the countries where we sell them or in others we are flat out no allowed to sell there and yet this country has an open market for anyone
No one talks about the countless jobs, the winning of the world wars, the highway system, the saving of Toyota in the 50's, the middle class, the hay-day of being an American............gosh I could go on.......I hope you eat every word you say, because like the old saying goes, whats good for GM is good for America. Now listen, if GM goes down, they are going to take the country with them because they are the heart of the manufacturing sector......you know, the one that developing countries try to get everytime they get a little money. And don't forget OPEC, they will tumble, along with Russia....then comes the BRIC countries.......GM might be captain of a rickety ship, but by GOD will they take every soul aboard down with them......
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Well, I think thats an interesting question and since I am a lurker and not someone that replies that much so I wont make this too long. The thing is that there is an unfair challenge that is put on the Americans by the BRIC and other countries. Example: We have to build vehicles in China in order to sell them there. The Chinese are allowed to dump anything they want to this market yet we have to make sure that we help build their economy when we sell products there. Now we don't have china's cars on our roads, but they have the OPPORTUNITY to place whatever products they want. Same with the Japanese, they put unusually high tariffs on our imports. Now can you imagine how the Camry would do against, say the Fusion, if there was an automatic $5000 on top of whatever the cost of it is? If we matched these countries an eye for an eye they would be in trouble because American business men are hawkish. They know how to survive in markets and take what they want. Examples of that is England and Austrailia. Ford is not doing so well here because of the cost burden of say health care, which the Japanese government picks up for their workers. Do you think that the Americans would have more cash and a better chance if they were not burdened by the UAW and CAW? This is just one example and am not basing the whole story on just these few examples. The reason I say this is because companies try to launch cars in this country because it is the most profitable market in the world. What if Toyota and VW had the same restrictions here that they put on the Americans? Its such a loaded question that it makes one wonder what would happen if there was an even playing field. This is just one point of view and by no means proves or disproves the argument but simply a question.
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Son of a gun! Between that and Fords tractor line being gone its a wonder how I am still a blueoval fan!!!!
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Saw a MKS going through Brighton the other day. He was trying to make the left turn light and got on it. It banked around the turn with that evil grin and oh my gosh was it beautiful
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Gosh! Its nice to have a Ford guy at Ford.......I don't remember reading about htis much passion since Hank the Deuce
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Yea, NASCAR is so boring.....nothing like left turns all day. FUCK THE RIGHT TURN!!!!
If they actually used "stock cars" then I would be interested in it. By the way, can I get some Fusion front fascia stickers at the dealership?
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As of December they are supposed to be doing the Bronco and the F-100 on the same platform......I will find out more in April
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Ford also owns the "Willy's" name in Brazil...
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Ford has so many more levels to go before they go under......don't forget when Iacocca(sp) borrowed from Uncle Sam and not the banks allan did. They are an industrial giant that the US economy can't let go....awesome product and someone that has righted the ship is what they have, I am going all in on Ford stock....
World 2012 Ranger why not here FORD ????
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Probowler----I wish I could reveal my source....I would love to tell you guys....but I don't want to put anyone's job in jeopardy. If I seem like I don't know what I am talking about, or someone does not like it....tell me to shut up and I will go away.....just saying :shades:
GTWannabe- Your right, the wrangler consistently breaks the 70,000 mark even before the JK and they only had the TJ. The marketing people that do the projections and thats where a lot of model decision comes from. I wish they would bring the everest here.....
blksn8k2-I will find out more in the spring summer, i can ask about that then.