Tough times for Ford.
Fix Or Repair Daily
...or Found On Road Dead
My Lincoln runs just great..rear drive V-8, 26+5000 miles. However, I did own a 1984 Tempo which was put on the road two years before design was complete.
Ford deserves to fail. Most of my cars have been Fords and I've been happy enough with the machinery. But the company is a different story.
I was ready to replace my 60,000 mile Ranger (nearly trouble-free) with a new one, till I heard that Ford was a "platinum sponsor" of a Jesse Jackson wall street shakedown where Jackson, Belafonte and their ilk made a bunch of antisemitic statements. (At least there they are carring on old Henry's legacy, eh? He used to give money to the Nazis when they were broke and out of power).
When that was pointed out to Ford Chairman Edsel B. Ford recently, VP Steven Hamp (Edsel's Waylon Smithers, apparently) reported that Ford "did not plan to reconsider support" for Jackson's projects.
Ford spends millions on Jesse's shakedown, which is a higher priority for them than their employees or products, they sure don't need my money from a single lousy truck.
Remember, a dollar spent on any Ford product is part of how Jesse and his mini-me shakedown sons finance their empire.
Here are a couple of links on it:
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/11883.html
http://www.nlpc.org/view.asp?action=viewArticle&aid=1245
Let Jesse buy their damn cars.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F