Since Ford owns Jaguar and Volvo, would those cars be acceptable on the lot, or must the vehicle be branded: "Ford"?
along these lines I'd like to see the pols who favor taxpayer bailouts and subsidies be forced to use only the product(s) made by said company. many of our local MN pols would have to fly Northwest everywhere, drive only e85 ethanol vehicles and ride the light rail back and forth.
Sounds like old-fashion intimidation to me.
It says a lot when a company has to basically FORCE its employees not to purchase the competitors product (especially once you consider that being a Ford employee they would get good prices on Ford products).
It's not dumb. The company should have done this a long time ago. What surprises me is companies like Nationwide insurance. They have a great health insurance policy for sale, but give employees insurance from another company.
Cheap, tacky policy, Ford.
I will never buy Ford again.
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I wonder if you pulled up in a Saab would the dopey union guard get the joke.
Aren't many Fords made in canada and mexico.
What about employees who have only been with Ford for a couple years? Should recent hires be expected to trade in the perfectly good car they had before for a big loss and spend $25,000 on a new Ford just to look good in the parking lot?
The term "Polishing the brass on the Titanic" comes to mind.
I bet Burger King won't allow the consumption of McDonalds burgers on their property......hmmmm.
No better way to improve the product than to piss off the production staff.
Since everyone gets the "employee discount price" now, what incentive do employees have to buy a Ford?
It's never a good sign if you have to force people to use your product
Let me see, why don't I own a Ford?
Oh, I remember. It was 1992 and my wife wanted a Ford Eddie Bauer Explorer. Well, she got one. Nice looking car. Very little SUV competition at the time.
As for service, well the local Ford dealership in Costa Mesa was incompetent. Horrible service. Same story for my next-door neighbor.
The vehicle burned oil from day one. The dealership claimed that all truck engines burned oil, that is was not a problem. At 70,000 miles by the time we sold it, I was adding a quart a month, and my wife only drove it 8,000 miles a year.
As for the brakes, we had to replace the pads every 15,000 miles. I wrote Ford about that little problem. Got a letter in return saying that our warranty was expired.
What else? The CD player broke, the rear windshield wiper stopped working but the dealership never had time to fix it during three separate service visits.
A year before we got rid of it, the Firestone tire fiasco happened. We had gotten rid of the original Firestone tires because of all the noise they made. So, that was not a problem but it caused the bottom to drop out of the used car price.
In the end, we traded it in for a Lexus RX300. Got crap for a trade-in and the dealer was very apologetic and suggested we might do better selling it ourselves but that the wholesale market for Explorers was very bad.
Now, we have owned 3 Lexus RX 300s. I am on my second one and my wife is on her first. The service at the dealership is great. Except for routine maintenance, the vehicles rarely need attention. The resale value is great.
Would I ever buy another Ford? When hell freezes over.
Ron Webber ought to be fired and any idiot who agreed with his stupid idea. Does anyone really believe that forcing employees to drive Fords to work, or be punished by having to park elsewhere, is going to help Ford's profit margin? Ridiculous!