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To: eraser2005; Antoninus; MineralMan

This is an easy question - Ford is by far the worst company when it comes to supporting the anti-family agenda. People with morals will focus on the next company after Ford is defeated. Ford is down 11% in sales when compared to last year August. GM is not even close to that. The boycott of Ford is working and more people than you realize are supporting it. Ford first the rest later.


38 posted on 09/05/2006 2:21:32 PM PDT by sasafras (("Licentiousness destroyes order, and when chaos ensues, the yearning for order will destroy freedom)
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To: sasafras

What koolaid have you been drinking? Ford's marketing and support don't even approach Subaru's. Their net spending is also less than Toyota's.

Do you even know what happened sales-wise last year? I'll help you:

GM introduced this lunacy called "employee pricing". Their sales skyrocketed, and the idiots at Ford and Chrysler matched the program, but also did so quite a while after GM started their program. By August of 2005, GM's inventory was depleted, and August turned out to be a relatively weak sales month for them. By comparison, Ford had record level sales as they were still eating through inventory. In May, GM's sales fell 16% compared to Ford's 1.9% drop (year-over-year). In June, GM's sales fell 26%, compared to Ford's 6.9% drop. In July, GM's sales fell 22%, compared to Ford's 34%. And in August, GM was up 0.7%, while Ford was down 11.2%.

And none of this has anything to do with a company making an idiotic decision to rely on trucks for 70% of its sales in an era of $3 gas, right?

Of course, its easier to make simplistic conclusions. I wonder why Honda's sales dropped 7% last month?


45 posted on 09/05/2006 2:34:35 PM PDT by eraser2005
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