Joe771476
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I posted this in another thread a while back. A GM exec in AUTOMOTIVE NEWS 10 years ago said that you might not recognize the automotive landscape in ten years, which is now. Do you see that he was right? Mergers, joint ventures, shared components, non-automotive divisions, diversification etc. are being realized. Just the costs alone make it necessary if the mfrs. are going to survive. The exec even said there might not be a GM or Ford. Let's hope he's wrong about that! But commonality and homogenous vehicles are more and more prevalent. Government and regulations are causing the demise of uniqueness. NASCAR race cars are cookie cutter vehicles. School buses are just about identical except for the name on the grille. Yeah I get it..safety regs. Same thing with fire apparatus. So far, I can tell an American branded SUV apart from others, but not the foreign branded ones! But I'm afraid that someday there will be a Government Motors! Everything will be identical, no brands really. The govt. will design everything. Oh the various plants might be still producing, but they'll be churning out carbon copy vehicles. The link below is just another example:
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11 hours ago, twintornados said:
Not with the Ford family having the shares that actually count.
Yes I know about that, but never say never!
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China will own Ford in 10 years. Every one of my 10 or so predictions that I made 10 to 20 years earlier have come true. I truly hope I'm WRONG!
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On 5/1/2026 at 4:47 PM, 7Mary3 said:
Essentially a good read. But I used to read my customer's Automotive News every week or so, and Ford Class 6 thru 8 sales were always in the top 3, sometimes top 2. So when the new generation of L-series came out in 1996, Daimler/Freightliner panicked and they knew they had to get rid of that pesky Ford competition. So Freightliner offered Jac Nasser -- I think it was he -- $300 million (not $200 million). Ford never gave it a chance. By the way, here in New England I'm not seeing many Volvo or Macks. One thing that was true is that Ford was too complacent, having let the C-series and L-series go virtually unchanged for around 30 years. Another thing I'll say here is that when parents waited with their children at the school bus stops and saw Ford on the front of school buses, and Memorial Day crowds saw the Ford name on fire trucks, that translated to more civilian car and light truck sales.
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Another celeb in a Ford. Class act in a classic! Notice the Octopus' Garden and Yellow Submarine visual references!
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I didn't want to start a new thread for this, but is this true? You're kidding!
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Scroll about half way down for F-series generations list.
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Here's what you guys need!
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There's an episode of The FBI TV show from the late 60's/early 70's and the father of his kidnapped son was driving a beautiful blue Shelby Mustang which one FBI agent referred to by that nomenclature. But the Ford name was not mentioned, This show was a one hour Ford commercial for 9 seasons! More on this another time.
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I hope that isn't the future styling for the US Transit!
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On 12/24/2023 at 1:30 AM, 7Mary3 said:
Expect to see more of these kinds of stories, investigations are ongoing.....
BTW, Ford will not be offering diesel powered F-650 and 750 trucks in California after the first of the year, they are no longer CARB compliant. It's an interesting situation, from what I gather the 7.3L Powerstroke does not meet 2025 CARB diesel standards, so as the 650 and 750 will be 2025MY next year (2024) they cannot be sold in California. It sounds like F-250's through F-600's will still be 'CARB legal' next year because those trucks are 2024MY. It will be interesting to see what Ford does in 2025, not being about to sell diesel 650's and 750's is not a big deal but if they can't get the Powerstroke to comply for the other trucks that's going to hurt.
Ford Vehicle LocatorMeanwhile check this out!
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I thought Rivian was on the brink of extinction. Who's funding them?
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You can't patent an idea. You need a working model or at least a diagram or schematic. Asking a company to give you royalties IF they implement it is not going to fly.
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12 minutes in cold temps is still too long.
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Introducing Ford Energy
in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
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True!