fuzzymoomoo

It could be worse. They could be GM with fields upon fields upon fields of unsold Caddillacs

Did you slide on some ice at some point? I've had flat spots caused because of that and had to prematurely replace tires because of it.

Yes but it's completely unfair to compare it to the 2015 model. It's not apples to apples. I never said it was impossible

I don't know if it was overproduction per se, but model year 2014 was stupidly long, like a year-and-a-half they were in production, all the while Focus (and C-Max) sales were collapsing the second half of 2014. It really was the perfect storm.

Different model entirely. Different materials used to build it and 15-20 years later, anything is bound to break down.

I heard that too. I guess it's to stockpile because they are anticipating issues in condensing into 2 shifts.

Doesn't the 2.0DI trace its roots back to the 80s? If so, there's your answer why it's still around. It's cheap and reliable as hell. Mine has 171k miles on it and showing no signs of slowing down yet (except for the clutch self destructing a few days ago)

I made a post a month or two on how short sighted the American public is in general. It's really goddamn irritating when cycles come back around and those people who bought giant tanks of vehicles whine and bitch and moan when gas skyrockets. It's going to happen again down the road, you wait and see.

As someone who has been hit by a drunk driver, someone convicted of DUI should never be allowed to drive again, plain and simple. When did we forget in this country that driving is a privilege, not a right?

CAP makes too much money for them to just "pull the plug on it". What it sounds like they need to do is completely gut and relocate management from the top down. I know you guys are getting a production manager from MAP, so it seems like it's already starting.

This was posted some time this week at MAP

I haven't been able to find anything in the contract stating one way or the other. My interpretation is that this whole "home plant" thing doesn't apply to us entry-level, that they can send us wherever they need us. Kinda like permanent supplemental workers.

Unofficially, June 22. It doesn't officially start until after shutdown in July 6th

Hahaha, the way my mother has been acting we've thought about it.

Well don't leave us hanging like that, what did you get!

Heh. The wedding is the 24th, and then we leave town and don't come back until the 30th. The first business day when we come back is June 1st I would love to talk to my committeeman, but he was on vacation last week

fall. That's all I've heard this far

i don't know, that's for engineers to figure out. I'm confident there is a way to do it though

im agreeing with you dude, im saying it night be able to be done without stretching the platform. They might be able to do it by just using the greenhouse space more efficiently.

oh absolutely. Maybe not so much stretched but better utilization of greenhouse space. I have a feeling that the next Focus will be much better in that department because of all of the complaints about it

Its no secret that the two shared suspension parts, but the testing of the mustang clip on the LS to most might seem like its an indication that they were working on a lincoln version of the mustang, and I don't remember too much of that back then. I was a subscriber to both MT and C&D at the time and I don't remember reading any kind of rumor like that. I hear more whispers and rumors now 10 years later than I did then. You know how the mags and bloggers love to read more into that kind of thing than whats really there.

I'm just going to leave this here

Highly doubt that. The Cimmarron was a terrible car all around. A Lincoln Focus would not be a terrible car.

you mean like the "SRT Barracuda" that was supposed to be replacing the Challenger?

just because it exists in prototype form doesnt mean its being tested as a future product perfect example - when the '05 Mustang was being prototyped, my rowing coach in High School had a Lincoln LS with the front clip of the then new mustang on it (it was camod heavily but it was damn obvious what it was). I'm sure if the magazines had caught photos of it, speculation of a Mustang based Lincoln would have run rampant.