Some clever guy posted this on another site:
Old Ford motto: Quality is Job One.
New Ford motto: Recalls are Job One.
Sad to see how far a great American company has fallen.
DEI
Ford, Boeing, United Airlines, etc., they all have one common trait, liberalism kills....
It’s probably a little bit of everything, including the economy.
Fix Or Repair Daily.
I have a 2020 Ranger. It’s been great, moves out, looks sharp. Can’t complain. Who really knows what this delay is all about.
Accounting (and, I guess now DEI) trumps engineering.
I haven’t had a new car since the 1980’s. Way to expensive, quality sucks, all brands.
Union contracts are viewed against production numbers, not sales figures.
New contract = new production levels.
It’s up to Ford to sell them and recoup the payroll expenditures.
Ford is in business to make vehicles.
The union contract forces them to make jobs.
It's the entire US auto industry. It used to be the envy of the world. Now, it can't even compete in its home market.
We can rule out American labor, because American labor builds the Camry and Tundra. That leaves the corporations or the UAW, or maybe both.
“Sad to see how far a great American company has fallen.”
It’s a shame, really. A formerly great brand dying this way...
Good looking mid sized truck. Owner of the company I work for has one and got behind me on the way home one day. I spent way too much time looking in the rear view mirror.
PRICE - $45,000! Five year payment plan.
The auto industry has lost touch with their consumers. I understand that the government has a hand in how their product is made but instead of trying to build a inexpensive work vehicle they are building luxury vehicles pretending to be work vehicles.
I have one suggestion for the auto industry - stop creating a new vehicle each year and instead find one design that works and just keep building that one.
My brother bought one when they showed up a few years back ,LOL
It also helps with their EV:ICE ratio.
EC
I have a 2023 Ford Ranger Supercab with various upgrades and I love it. Sips fuel too.
If they are having quality problems, I would hope Ford would hold back and fix them before sending them off with customers. I have a F250 and a Lincoln that are pretty good, but those were well exercised and profitable V8/RWD platforms. However, my Mom has a Focus with a transmission that Ford engineers knew was junk before they released the car into production and they kept producing it for years, defects and all.
Why so old? Price, mainly. But they also last longer than they did in the 70s. And styling . . . every small SUV looks like the others for 20 years . . . so why bother to upgrade?
The 2024 Ranger is a new generation, so lots of kinks to wotk out, perhaps. It needed an overhaul. It was looking quite dated. Unfortunately, it, like all other trucks, has been subjected to creep, getting bigger with each generation. The Ranger is the size of a 1980s F-150. Hence the introduction of the smaller Maverick in 2022.
Not available in the US, but it should be:
“This Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series lookalike is a no-frills, cost-reduced Hilux flatbed/pickup optimized for lower-GDP markets.”
My first brand new vehicle was a 1987 Ford Ranger XLT, 2 wheel drive, six cylinder, and a 5 speed I leaned how to drive on the way from the dealer. Great looking truck in two tone blue metallic, a total blast to drive.
Couldn’t kill that thing. Have owned a lot of Fords over the years among other brands too. The only ones that gave me any expensive repairs were a Lincoln LS and a Lincoln Navigator.
Sad to see how far a great American company has fallen.
Yes imports from China does take a toll on quality.
GM is just as bad as most are.