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Blurred Focus How Ford mishandled its serviceable little car ($4-5 Thousand loss each car)
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| 06/19/2006
Posted on 06/09/2006 12:05:53 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: PeteB570
Yeah that 86 Chevy Truck paint failure I had it happen on a Celebrity station wagon.
One day at the car wash I noticed what looked like Saran Wrap peeling off the car. It came off like dead skin after a sunburn. Turned out it was "Clear Coat" and it was happening with a lot of G.M. cars.
At the local Chevy dealership they gave me a little "participation" from G.M. so my paint job only cost $700.00.
The $700.00 paint job included them getting some of the spray on my windshield, and they screwed up reattaching the luggage rack causing the places where it was attached to the roof to began rusting out.
Following the "tune up" which was done during that same time that they had it for painting, my son and I discovered that they had reversed two of the spark plug wires. It's amazing that the engine would even run that way, but it did run with a noticeable lack of "pep".
I love my Toyota.
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:29:55 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Ben Franklin: "Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of")
To: FreedomPoster; 2banana
"Ford insiders say the new trio will be built in Mexico, where labor costs are lower..."
Can we expect to see a mass exodus of illegal aliens back over the border into Mexico????
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:30:24 PM PDT
by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
To: dalereed
My wife's Lexus gets that and it's at least 1/2 of what I consider a car, the Focus is a Tonka Toy. Your wife's Lexus sells for five times what the Focus does.
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:30:47 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: operation clinton cleanup
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:31:10 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(A Moose Once Bit my Sister. Yeah. She Turned Moose-lim.)
To: Ben Mugged
They shut down a line and still must pay the workers full time for the rest of their employment career. They pay them to sit in a room and watch television. Sorry, BM, but I must correct an obvious (and crucial) error.
We the car purchasers get to pay them for watching television; if we're stupid enough to buy from the American big three and their hood UAW partners...
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:31:24 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: FreedomPoster
Amazing how Honda and Toyota manage to build Accords and Camrys and Avalons here in the U.S. just fine, thank you very much. The Honda and Toyota plants son't suffer under the UAW yoke.
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:32:51 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: 2banana
I dunno, it sounds like an "out of the frying pan into the fire" strategy to me. :)
To: Buck W.
Do they employ union labor?Probably not.
They probably don't burn bushels of $100 bills in the back lot every day either.
If you have no problem with paying an extra $5-10k to buy a union-made American car, please feel free to do so. Just don't arrange it for the rest of us to be forced to do the same.
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:36:07 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: FreedomCalls
"Your wife's Lexus sells for five times what the Focus does."
What does the cost of the car have to do with anything, mpg/# the Focus mpg stinks.
The new Chrysler 300 gets that good of mileage and it's got 450HP!
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:37:56 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: operation clinton cleanup
Geez... something this small should get at least 50 mpg on the highway!![](http://arabam.milliyet.com.tr/fuar/2004/paris/porsche_boxster.jpg)
Would you say the same about this equally small car (Porsche Boxer)?
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:38:28 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: dalereed
What does the cost of the car have to do with anything, If you were willing to pay fives times the cost of a Focus, then I'm sure Ford could provide an engine inthe same body at that much higher price that would be able to get 50mph on the highway.
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:43:07 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: allen08gop
>>Just asking...
No, you're making an accusation with no back-up data to support it. In a passive-agressive manner.
Just saying . . .
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:44:36 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: operation clinton cleanup
If I wanted a small car, this would be it:
To: dalereed
What does the cost of the car have to do with anything ... The new Chrysler 300 gets that good of mileage and it's got 450HP!The Chrysler 300 sells for four times the price of the Focus. It's easy to increase the mileage with highly specialized, highly tuned, expensive engines. Not so easy with inexpensive engines unless you are willing to sacrifice emissions, weight, power, or build quality.
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:46:37 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: FreedomCalls
I wouldn't have a POS Focus or any other small thing they try to call a car at any price, even if it was free.
Personally, I drive a 1965 Chevy PU with over a million miles on it and I wouldn't trade it straight across for a brand new one.
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:46:38 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: dalereed
That is 26 city, 32 hwy. Not great but decent.
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:47:28 PM PDT
by
gogeo
(The /sarc tag is a form of training wheels for those unable to discern intellectual subtlety.)
To: mewzilla
xB is the boxy one, right?
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:48:50 PM PDT
by
gogeo
(The /sarc tag is a form of training wheels for those unable to discern intellectual subtlety.)
To: Responsibility2nd
LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL...
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:49:58 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: gogeo
Yup. Small engine, big interior. Lots of head and leg room. 30-35 MPG, 105 HP, 1.5 L (IIRC) But it gets out of its own way on the highway. And did I say lots of head and legroom? I like it. Reminds me of a Ford Model A, which was the last car Ford made that I liked :)
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posted on
06/09/2006 12:51:13 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: operation clinton cleanup
Go to the Ford Europe website. You can configure a Focus with a 2.0 Turbo Diesel or a 2.0 Turbo 200 hp (like the VW Jetta). Can't buy them here though. Ford won't let us even though they're made in Mexico and can be put on a truck heading North as easily as a ship heading for Euroland.
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