Tell me this couldn't sell if it was in the states. I will never understand Ford World Wide. They make excellent cars, and yet up until recently the NA lines have just been ugly scraps.
No, but the UAW is the largest single problem. Even when management brings in a known proven design from, say, Europe, the UAW promptly sabotages it and renders it a flaming pile.
Case in point - Ford Mondeo/Contour.
It’s both management AND unions at the American auto factories.
The unions demanded all the benefits that left little profit for capital improvement. Management gave in to them, and allowed their plant to become decrepit. It’s certainly not the market. For every Ford or GM or subsidiary plant that closes down, Toyota or Honda or one of their subsidiaries opens one. And the Ford or GM plants are closing in largely democratic union controlled cities, while the Japanese plants are opening in rural areas where the unions and democrats don’t run corrupt political systems.
You can still have good manufacturing jobs in the USA. Ford and GM won’t provide any of them 10 years from now.
Tell me this couldn't sell if it was in the states. I will never understand Ford World Wide. They make excellent cars, and yet up until recently the NA lines have just been ugly scraps.