Posted on 03/11/2008 12:18:32 AM PDT by MississippiMan
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I don't know...but it is a "cross-over" SUV... ;-)
Is Ford going out of business in the next few years? I also wouldn’t trust them to carry out the terms with the Family Association.
RV6A pilot here, what kind of Piper are you flying?
Neighbor here is the Piper sales rep for the state of Florida and he says only thing selling is the Matrix.
Mvpel,
It used to be the Lincoln boats that fit that bill, an paid a lot of Union Medical Bills. I try not to be a conspiracy type, but note all the Dominant Media Press against the SUV and where it lead the big 3, into troubled financial times. These things were paying the bills. I can't help but wonder if they had more in mind other than changing automotive taste. Funny part of it is, the latest generation of SUV's are very good drivers, the Explorer in particular with the IRS and Stability Roll Control you would think it is a Euro Luxury Car.
With that in mind the $100 figure for the Focus maybe off, in this environment, all these cars have to make money for Ford.
I tested a Fusion with the 4-banger. What a POS. I bought Camry instead, better gas mileage by far and a smoother ride.
A 1985 Warrior II
The question is why didn't AFA do something more positive TR.....
How about sponsoring forums on how to get more out of your 401(k), or how an HSA might save you and Ford for union employees, or spiritual counseling for those leaving the firm ?
The patient was and is sick and is trying to be on the mend, and in a way they denied them food. Shame on AFA.
In terms of Ford survival, IMHO they will be around, I would not bet against Alan Mulally, look into his history, failure is not an option for this man. Nor would against ALL the hard working folks I know trying to turn the company around. Including the one I help get off to work in the morning.....
I had a Ford Tempo for many years.
What a piece of garbage. My the time the car finally died (it caught on fire because it was parked too close to a dumpster that some a-hole set on fire), I swear that almost everything had been replaced once or twice.
This wasn’t normal wear and tear either. All in all, it was infuriating. The car was a friggin’ lemon! I tried speaking with the Ford dealership about it and I got a friendly “Gee sorry but it’s not our fault that we sell crappy cars” spiel from them.
That car is in hell. Of that, I’m sure.
Well, granted, I'm thinking of Chrysler numbers from maybe 10 yeaers ago, and it's more like $250 rather than $100, but I figured that that state of affairs was pretty common in the US automotive industry.
I grew up on a Ford Escort, myself, and if I hadn’t had a shop teacher and former farm boy for a father, we’d easily have racked up repairs five times higher than the worth of the car by the time we eked out the last of 10 years and 100,000 miles from the vehicle.
One car I managed to ruin with youthful naiveté was a big green Chevy Impala station wagon - the “check oil” light was flickering every so often, and it turned out that a “flicker” is just as serious as a “always on” where a Chevy’s oil light is concerned - it wasn’t long before it threw a rod and trashed the engine.
I'm probably not in the lessyloop but I never heard that those cars {or any cars} were lesmobiles.
Do they come with a built in dildo? What makes them lesmobiles?
Oh, and how do you know?
I’d love a new Fusion, but whether I did or didn’t buy one would have had nothing to do with this.. would have been finding one at the price I was willing to pay in a condition I was willing to accept.
I’m glad to see Ford stop doing the stupid stuff with the pillow biters.. but end of the day I’m buying the best car I can afford that meets my needs.
Subaru has intentionally been targeting the homosexual market for at least a decade... with ads specifically targeted for homosexuals with the tag line
“Made Different”
My mean and nasty widow neighbor recently bought a subaru, she's ugly enough to be a bull dyke.
>> That works out to about an 86% drop in sales. Are those numbers correct? <<
Maybe they meant each month, there was an 8% year-over-year decline? (Congrats on not multiplying 8 by 24 :^D)
>> Ford can’t repeal the laws of economics. <<
They can increase supply.
well, if you believe AFA that Ford has done what they wanted, then given that Toyota provided more support, more advertising, more funding to those groups to begin with, your Tundra is and has always been the bigger “culprit”
Considering that the 2007 Fusion is rated 20/29 with owners reporting 26.0 mpg average for a 4 cylinder automatic, compared with a 21/30 rating for a 4 cylinder automatic 2007 Camry with owners reporting 24.6, I highly doubt that the Camry gets “better gas mileage by far”.
Which casts doubt on your other assertions.
(all numbers per fueleconomy.gov)
I had a 1984 Ford Escort.
Replaced the battery for the first time in 1998.
Repairs? What repairs?
—Actually, Ford is making better cars.—
Consumer reports loved the Ford Fusion. Very reliable, nice to drive; it’s about time Detroit came up with a Camry (there were no Fusions in 2004, though, so I have ... a Camry).
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