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1 posted on 08/20/2025 7:23:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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How about a 30000 dollar gas truck


2 posted on 08/20/2025 7:24:38 PM PDT by riverrunner
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Electric - you can’t go WRONG. (/S)


3 posted on 08/20/2025 7:26:23 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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No thanks


5 posted on 08/20/2025 7:32:16 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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How about a truck with ZERO computer chips?


7 posted on 08/20/2025 7:37:43 PM PDT by PGR88
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Ford Senior VP - “We’ll NEVER be able to lose money and market share like GM can”...

Ford CEO Jim Farley - “Here, hold my beer”...


9 posted on 08/20/2025 7:40:47 PM PDT by Axenolith (Don’t bother holding my beer, I’ll finish it first…)
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Oh -

and

“These full-sized SUVs and pickups are emissions-heavy”

NO, they aren’t. The only way you could kill yourself running one in the closed garage, for probably close to the last 20 years, would be from it using up the oxygen if the structure was poorly ventilated. The only way that sentence works is if you redefine what comes out to include CO2...


10 posted on 08/20/2025 7:45:39 PM PDT by Axenolith (Don’t bother holding my beer, I’ll finish it first…)
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So they are going to piss away their heavy duty F series for an Electric truck. Wow. Those tards should come drive I-10 in Texas for a week. Like San Antonio to El Paso in one of their electric toys. Then take a look at all the F-250/350’s that pass them up when their toy has run out of juice.


11 posted on 08/20/2025 7:47:08 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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Make a basic ranger sized pick-em up with a diesel engine.

A work truck.

Fill the void that is filled by the Toyota Helix overseas.

People who want work trucks do not want electrics. They will settle for gas but they really want a good diesel.

12 posted on 08/20/2025 7:48:56 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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This guy doesnt get it and needs to be shown the door and the hell with ev crap.30 thou gas truck would sell like hotcakes.


13 posted on 08/20/2025 7:53:48 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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I love my 460 powered Ford truck, in spite of the dismal fuel economy. It rocks.


17 posted on 08/20/2025 8:15:20 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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Say goodbye to Ford by 2032.


21 posted on 08/20/2025 8:34:58 PM PDT by allendale
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The Ford “Brain-Trust” is completely disconnected from reality. They will lose an ENORMOUS amount of money on this misadventure.


22 posted on 08/20/2025 8:35:36 PM PDT by Bryan24
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I’m predicting a face plant.


24 posted on 08/20/2025 8:51:56 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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The company hopes the move [$30,000 electric pickup available in two yearfs] will help Ford remain a profitable U.S. automaker despite ... softening EV demand”

BRILLIANT! make up massive losses per EV with increased volume of vehicles no one wants!


25 posted on 08/20/2025 8:52:59 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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I’d rather have my old 2000 F250 7.3.


28 posted on 08/20/2025 8:58:16 PM PDT by dinodino ( Shut it down anyway. )
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Jeff Bezos’s new Slate pickup hybrid is reported to start at $28,000.

https://youtu.be/eIJcWC7TBZo?si=dKLjEbKLUzFHyP2d


31 posted on 08/20/2025 9:30:14 PM PDT by mouske
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Ford needs to back to a true Model T, a cheap, bare bones sedan. If it is under $30,000 and well made it will sell like hot cakes.

Preferably gasoline engine.


32 posted on 08/20/2025 10:29:17 PM PDT by jimtorr
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Even so, Farley himself admitted on a podcast that after spending six months driving a Xiaomi SU7 to and from work, he thought it was “fantastic” and didn’t want to give it up.

There was a time when he’d have gotten his ass kicked, and nobody would have dared drive anything but a Ford onto the property. That Xiaomi thing would have ended up in little pieces.

33 posted on 08/20/2025 11:25:33 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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Ford is no longer a mainstream American auto manufacturer. It wants to be a high-end specialty vehicle producer, with low volume and high gross profits on each unit.

HMMMMMMMMM. I wonder if union contracts are a factor in the corporate decision to reduce the volume needed to reach bottom line goals.

34 posted on 08/21/2025 12:15:25 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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Why would anyone throw away 30k on an EV? They are a stupid idea for any use except as golf carts.


36 posted on 08/21/2025 2:34:31 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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