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OMG! I just saw a CT DOT F750 -- I'm assuming it's NOT an F650 -- dump/plow truck! I did, I really did! First time since 1997! Of course the previous generation L-series were still around for a while. The CT DOT never bought the Sterlings since Freightliner was pushing that brand.
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As long as the mining countries/owners don't withhold the lithium and the batteries for their own agenda! All our eggs in one basket is not good. How much lithium is in the ground? The US Mint has been producing American Silver Eagles at 20 million per year since 1986 for about 35 years. Now you're lucky if they pump out half a million. Supposedly they can't acquire enough silver. According to a coin show TV host, silver demand is outpacing silver supply by 20 million ounces per month! Supposedly we're going to run out of silver by 2035. What else are we going to run out of? It won't last forever!
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I submitted this in another thread, but it's time for Ford to team up with/buy Bluebird and then they could offer in-house power trains such as gas, diesel, propane and electric. When parents see the blue oval on a school bus transporting and protecting their children, it will translate into more pickup and SUV sales! International/IC and Freightliner/Thomas do not get this same benefit because there are no Freightliner and International BRAND pickups and SUV's! Get it? It's called marketing! It's a win-win for Ford!
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I've been thinking about this for a few years now with regard to NASCAR races! Having a nozzle shoot out smoke AND a speaker broadcasting the SOUND! Also, will Mustang and Corvette electric vehicles be given more torque or higher performance capabilities than plain SUV's/sedans or will they all have the same performance capabilities? If so, why buy an EV high performance model nameplate? Hmmm.
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Time for Ford to team up with/buy Bluebird Bus and Ford/Bluebird would have an in-house capability to offer gas, diesel, propane and electric school buses. It would also increase sales to parents who would see the blue oval protecting and transporting their children! International/IC and Freightliner/Thomas do not have that advantage because they really don't make International and Freightliner BRAND pickup trucks and SUV's. Get it!? It's called marketing!
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On 3/2/2023 at 8:22 AM, Bob Rosadini said:
Speaking of dropping things, Ford Authority today says that the flex fuel option will no longer be available.
Sounds like part of the further plan to "save Ford" right out of business.?
Yes I know, I don't have all the facts and I'm sure the stock answer will be .."the option had little volume, therefore...."
But as I see it, it was engineered in to the truck so the issue is... it was a PITA from a scheduling issue?
I just saw a Ford Explorer not-yet -in-service police cruiser heading back to the outfitter's location and it said FLEX FUEL but it was emanating a slightly unpleasant odor.
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Ford is moving way too fast toward EV's.
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Something is wrong at Ford. I can't put my finger on it though.
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If this gets out and Ford is the only mfr. to implement it, goodbye to Ford sales! Due to the onset of computerization, I've already made the decision decades ago that I will NEVER buy a new car again!
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Good news, but I still say there will come a day when mining countries and owners - I won't mention any names -- will withhold lithium/batteries for their own benefit and we'll be standing around with our thumbs up our ......!!!!!
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On 2/19/2023 at 2:59 PM, zipnzap said:
Mercedes doesn't report their numbers.
IICR, first they merged their Metris numbers and Sprinter numbers together.
Then they stopped reporting them altogether.
Yeah, because they were embarrassed!!
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On 2/11/2023 at 11:25 AM, Bob Rosadini said:
Just a thought if anything would be done, and if Ford is SERIOUS about commercial trucks, I would think a new cab structure that provides a new 650-750 cab structure that would also be utilized for the E would make sense. As GM did years ago but in reverse-they used the van cab structure for their class 6 and 7's.
A cab with common components would eliminate a cab as well as offering good opportunity for better visibility in 650/750, perhaps a bit better BBC, and more room to make it more competitive with F'liner, International and the Paccars.
A fraction of the dollars that will be spent on Formula 1?
Yeah Bob, and when I first saw that Van cab as a medium, it was the ugliest thing I'd ever seen! BTW, is there a sale on Broncos? Last weekend on my Sunday 20 mile trek, I saw a dozen or more new Broncos! What gives?
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Must watch TV: COZI TV channel is airing a 50th anniversary of the TV show "Emergency." Randolph Mantooth has aged a little bit better than Kevin Tighe. Sorry Kevin! Anyway, remember the old Crowns that LA County Fire used? Then they bought 60 Ward LaFrances so WLF donated one for the TV show so Universal didn't have to steal one out of the barn somewhere for shooting. The yellow Chevy or GMC ambulance was so hated by a director, that he had it intentionally destroyed in an accident in one episode. It's being restored. I suspect the hospital staff got top billing because they were veteran actors, while Mantooth and Tighe were newbies. Nothing to do with Ford you say? Check out the Crown link below for Ford references. The LaFrance brothers were responsible for the Ward LaFrance and American LaFrance. The latter was very popular here in New England since they were built in Elmira New York. I can't understand how they went out of business and later the brand was revived by Freightliner but not for long. Randolph Mantooth is interviewed while sitting in front of a Ford F450, probably a first attack or rescue vehicle.
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Great news! German companies Daimler (Mercedes) and VW would like nothing better than to destroy Ford. Daimler did it by stealing Ford's newly redesigned class 8 L-series and VW wants to horn in on Ford's successful Transit, which is the best selling commercial vehicle in Europe. Notice to Ford: Steer clear of German mergers! Did we really win World War II? NO! German luxury cars and Japanese mainstream sedans have overtaken our American auto industry. Our two biggest enemies in WW II have destroyed the American car mfrs. who built the planes, some jeeps (Ford), 6X6 trucks (GM) and tanks (Chrysler). You see, Germany and Japan have never forgotten. However, as one VW official said during the VW emissiongate scandal, Americans forget. Sadly, he's right!
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Slightly off topic, but in the category of "There goes the country," I read a news article about police imposters or impersonators driving foreign brand vehicles. A CT State Police official said -- paraphrasing -- that we don't use foreign brand vehicle for police cruisers. Well I'm 99.9% I saw what I believe to be a Toyota police cruiser on a construction site. So one of the last bastions of American brand dominance is gone. Sad. They haven't been able to crack the pickup segment.............yet.
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12 hours ago, jpd80 said:
Absolutely, the last 30-40 years has seen Ford trying to cut costs and virtually removing all the the supply stability it once had. We could have a whole thread on that alone
Bill Ford is no genius, the last time he ran the company was an absolute disaster, so I take his edicts
as something that’s come pre-vetted from the bureaucracy/ accountants (he has been “fed” to say and believe)
Remember that he originally predicted 25% hybrid by 2006 back in 2001 but no one could get near him with the truth.Agree, whoever did the threat analysis regarding supply of critical parts at distance was obviously clueless.
The maddening thing for me is that Ford is risk averse to taking a chance with product that’s a calculated risk
but gladly sinks itself in red ink with poor quality parts and lack of supply, do they not see how much self harm
is created for years? The brass clearly have their priorities wrong, good quality ICE is needed to pay for BEV…..
Now is not the time to undermine all the potential profit earners, need as many customers as possible and “
retain as many compact sized buyers as possible with hybrids so they don’t go elsewhere….that’s the job of C2.
I still don't know why Bill agreed to let Jac the Knife sell off the newly redesigned L-series in 1996/1997.
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On 12/19/2022 at 8:21 AM, Bob Rosadini said:
How about this Ford ad from 1969. What a good idea! Of course today, that wouldn't happen because I'm sure the light truck marketing budget doesn't want any space given to 650/750? "those guys have their own budget"- or some other lame excuse.
"One Ford" Big Al...I don't think anyone remembers that.
I was just thinking about this the other day. Why can't Ford insert some shots of Ford MEDIUMS in the background into F-series TV ads? They're F-series, right?
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On 12/23/2022 at 8:19 PM, tbone said:
Agreed, but the new one looks lower. I don’t think it would have made it through the drifts I had to go through this morning.
Notice all the mirrors on the Grumman LLV! You can see ground level in front and in the rear! What nobody realizes is that mail carriers are truck drivers FIRST, then secondly mail delivery people! Carriers are taught to back up ONLY in extreme situations! As far as the vehicle, it is still the best vehicle design since their introduction around 1985 based on a Chevy S10 chassis/engine. The body is aluminum, you can turn on a dime, and all doors are sliding so there's no chance of a door being ripped off by a passing vehicle. The only drawbacks are no air conditioning, poor heat and rear wheel drive when front wheel drive was in its infancy. They are experiencing an increase in fires in recent years and I think it's the exposure of the fuse block being vulnerable to rain water seepage finding its way through the hood seams. But that's MY opinion.
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Just saw a TV ad with Walmart Transits. So they must have bought probably 50,000 units at least.
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Hmmm, let's see. Ford has been around since 1903. By now, quality should not even be an issue. It should have been achieved by now!!!!!!!!!!!! Do away with foreign made components! They don't care about Ford quality! Go back to the River Rouge days. Bring it in the back door, and send the finished product out the front. All rubber, all plastic, all steel, all aluminum! Back in the day, the only issues Ford, GM and Chrysler had were starters and GM had timing chain issues. That was it!
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Ford dealers in CT face ultimatum over electric vehicles
I don't know why Ford is going so overboard on this. If you lose your dealers, you're all done. Unless they want to do everything online. Is it a feel-good knee-jerk reaction to what they perceive as increasing consumer wishes to save the planet? You can't reduce the carbon footprint of a carbon based planet which the Earth is! Don't even try! Everybody exhales 2.2 lbs. of CO2 per day. The population of the Earth has doubled over the last 50 years so let's do away with people! Then add animals. Without CO2 we'd be dead! Now trees emit oxygen and take in CO2, which is a good thing but we cut down trees, many for no reason. Oh they say for safety around power lines and over roads. But I see them cutting down trees where there are no lines or no limbs over roads! If they had their way, they'd want to cut down every tree on the planet! Well that's how they put food on their table, right? See anything wrong with the economic system? And by the way, this interaction of oxygen and CO2 between humans and trees was not by accident! There was an intelligence! You decide if it was A god, THE God or extra-terrestrials! But I digress. These scientists came up with this greenhouse effect nonsense and naive people bought into it. The reason why auto mfrs. finally bought into it was because it makes them money! These scientists say milk and eggs are good one year, next year they aren't, the third year they are! Pluto was a planet for 60 years, now it's not! But if we are to believe these "experts," they tell us we've had climate change events for millions and billions of years. Well there were no cars and industrial plants back then! All the cars and industrial plants don't emit the CO2 that human exhalation, volcanoes and rotting vegetation emits!
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On 10/1/2022 at 4:45 PM, jpd80 said:
LOL, 87, 91, 93 and diesel
There are standard charging plugs and adapters but also 400 volt and a new 800 volt system.
It's all pumped into a fuel tank by a similarly designed pump.
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Sorry, but Daimler had just bought the Freightliner nameplate because Mercedes couldn't sell their butt ugly trucks (Kurzhauber was the model name) here in the USA to save their lives! The only fleet of Mercedes I saw was a 10 truck fleet operated by a wholesale florist out of Meriden CT. Now here comes pesky Ford with a redesigned L-series in 1996/1997 that would have destroyed Freightliner and International! So in 1997 Daimler bought -- I mean stole -- Ford's heavy biz for $300 million! Notice that Ford must have told Daimler they had to keep the oval on the hood, so they put an "S" in there! The deal was Ford by contract could not re-enter class 8 for 10 years. So that's why Sterling lasted for a 10 year run. This way all the Fords were off the roads by then and the dealer network was hopelessly dismantled.......gone! Ford needs to diversify and become once again a full line producer.....passenger cars to class 8! I don't how long they can survive trying to sell $80,000 light duty F-series to the average Joe. Sure they have the biggest share of the class 3 thru 5 market, but I see Dodge/Ram creeping up in class 1 thru 5 every day on the roads. If Ram were to suddenly go into mediums and even class 8 heavy, Ford would be left out in the cold with their thumbs up their donkeys! The class 8 market can only support ONE more player at the most. Yes there are several brands of class 8, but honestly Volvo/Mack equal one, Freightliner/Western Star equal one, and Peterbilt/Kenworth equal one. I think VW/Traton, a global powerhouse who now own International, told Ford to stay out of class 8 in order to keep good feelings regarding the VW/Ford joint venture. And Ford just needs to enter class 8 vocational only, no OTR sleepers. By the way, is that VW/Ford venture still in effect? I don't see anything about it lately. You know how much VW and Mercedes hate Ford because the Transit is the biggest commercial success in Europe!? And they aren't happy about the Turkish Ford/Otosan F-Max making in-roads across Europe and the Middle East!!
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I don't care what anybody says, the blue Ford oval is one of the most recognized and iconic logos in the world!
Ford Files Patent for Cars to Repossess Themselves
in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
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One Connecticut official said that in an effort to eliminate wrong way crashes, they were tossing around the idea to disable vehicle computers/engines, which apparently is doable due to the latest technology. But he wasn't sure about the wisdom of actually implementing it. And I think he's right; it would open up a can of worms and might put the errant motorist in a vulnerable position.