Mustang_Marty

Boeing's Jerry Calhoun Ford CEO could hire Boeing ally

In my 25 years of driving, I have always owned a 2dr coupe or hatch. I Even when I was married, my wife's cars were a 2dr Jetta, 2rd Cherokee and a 2dr Mirage. We only had one kid so it wasn't too bad. There hasn't been a 4dr that I ever thought was attractive. I liked the Lincoln LS, but it's 2 extra doors prevented me from buying it. My brother has an M3 4dr and he admittedly said that he bought it because the insurance was nearly half the cost than the 2dr. Up to that point, he had only had a 2dr. His wife had the minivan to drive their 4 kids around in. My son is 15 and he will be driving a Mustang Coupe. Back seat is worthless, so we will be doing a rear seat delete kit on it.

That, I would agree with, but they still would have needed to replace the Taurus with something larger, keep the Escort, and not launch the Focus... otherwise a 2000 Fusion would have the same problem as the 2000 Contour, it's pricing structure. At the low end, you could buy a fully loaded Focus and at the high end you could buy a similarly equipped Taurus. Most people tended to buy a loaded Focus or a decently equiped Taurus over the Contour. But when you look back at 2000 to say what they should have done, you unfortunately have to look at what the management af Ford was like back then. Ford was in the hands of Nasser. He was also busy spending billions on Volvo and LR. Looking back at his tenure at Ford, it seems that he had a simple plan. Ford would be the truck division, Mazda would be the entry level car with Volvo taking the rest of the slack. Lincoln would have been the upscale division, and Jag, LR, and AM the Luxury trio. All of Mercury along with Ford's cars would be gone. Had he stayed there another year or so, this may have been the face of Ford.

That would be true IF the Taurus was directly replaced by the Fusion. The Fusion was one of 3 cars intended to replace the Taurus. Ford realized the market had changed and that the Taurus could not be all things to all people and replaced it with 3 very different cars Do you really think that the smaller '00-'06 Mondeo would have been the best replacement for the Taurus without having a car similar to the 500 & Freestyle in place?

The Mondeo was here from 1995-2002... It was called the Contour. It was too small to be a Taurus. Even when they revamped the Euro Mondeo in 2000, it didn't increase in size or interior volume to the extent to be a Taurus replacement.

They did, but it was only a truck engine. It was an FE series engine

Here is a good write-up about Alan Mulally done a couple of years ago... Seattle Times 4/08/01

In Washington, you have to watch out for the unmarked Volvo wagon, BMW 325i, and several Grand Ams they have on road rage patrols. Nothing was odder than seeing an unmarked 325i with wig-wags and blue strobes flying down I405

Two years ago, A good friend of mine found a puddle of tranny fluid under his 1 month old, 500 mile '03 Lightning. When he took it in to his dealer they found it was leaking from a crack in the case. The only units the dealer could get were reman's which my friend, nor the dealer or the SVT rep, wanted. The dealer ordered a case and took the 'guts' out of the orginal trans and put it in the new case. This was the first that I had ever heard this being done. I checked with someone that I knew in the parts dept and he confirmed it.

Lexus GT500 :blink: Ford will be all over them like flies on shit.

This was too funny.... :lol:

She had a nice spread in Stuff Magazine last year....

Blue Square News Ok, J/k :lol: Starting withe Chevy focus, there is Bowtie News or Bowtie Confidential. Bowtie Insider would be good, but it may be to close to GMI Maybe you can make a play off of 'Motorama'. It's a reach back into the 'good' days of General Motors and encompassed all their brands. Not sure if it is trademarked, but is seems others are using it but not GM. Beats GMN (GM News). Anything with 'Chevy', 'Chevrolet', or another of thier brands could be asking for trouble (like BON's FWN days).

This has been going around, but fo those who have not seen it.... Sucked Sock Tool! :lol:

My True Blue 2001 Mustang While not technically a Mustang, here's my 1985 ASC McLaren B)

Whipped Cream is optional :P