Ford recently announced that it has a new diesel passenger vehicle that will average 65 MPG.
Can’t wait to get one? Ford will only sell them in Europe. The “brains” at Ford “believe that the American consumer has not accepted diesel personal vehicles”.
These morons won’t even try to sell this car here because WE AMERICANS are too STOOOOOOOPID.
Ford should go bankrupt with IDIOTS like this at the helm.
I feel no pity for them what so ever.
The biggest reason I would be very careful about investing millions in bringing a new technology to the US. The capricious nature of congress and its ability to make the EPA do its bidding makes it a gamble to do anything in this country.
There is absolutely nothing to keep Congress from making any technology prohibitive at the drop of the hat.
Look at the debacle that ethanol has become. Congress hopped on the bandwagon and forced all of us to pile on too. The result has been less mileage and more pollution with the side benefit of greatly increased food costs around the world.
Very little is certain in today's world, but one thing you can absolutely depend on is that if Congress gets involved all hope is lost. As long as voters can be bought using their own hard-earned tax money it's not going to improve.
In theory voters can simply refuse to return an errant or inefficient member of Congress to the hallowed halls. In reality 100 plus years of rigging Congress and its rules, plus the ability to hand out billions of dollars to constituents makes it highly unlikely any incumbent will be sent packing. Look at the buffoons who have held office for 30 years or more, the list goes on and on. And anytime there's a problem, guess whose names come up time and again? Yup, Frank, Pelosi, et al.
I don't deny the role car company greed plays in the problems we face, but that greed is compounded by a regulatory and tax environment that makes it very hard for a company to have a five-year plan.
Its not Ford that thinks Americans are stupid. It is the Dems and the environmentalist wackos who block diesel vehicles from running around on our roads. They boost the taxes on diesel which really only impacts the costs trucks have to pay since there are so few diesel cars here. Don’t blame Ford, VW and GM have many diesel vehicles that won’t make it over here as well. Taxes on the vehicles make them more expensive as well.
Diesel vehicles generally have much better fuel mileage and are much more efficient than gasoline powered vehicles.
Fight the environmentalist wackos and allow diesel vehicles. Diesel as a fuel requires less processing and today’s diesel engines are are more fuel efficient than most hybrids and produce less fumes or pollution than gasoline vehicles. I grew up driving a diesel car and the technology in the 1970’s with glow plugs that needed to be warmed up before starting (hot or cold) and virtually no torque or power are gone. Today’s diesel cars are fuel efficient, non polluting and just as powerful and fast as gas engines.
Push congress to treat diesels more favorably and don’t blame Ford.
The problem Mr. Jazzy may be you....
If you want one so bad, do like the Dodge Viper Fans did when it was a show car. Send Ford a check for 10 grand, they send it back but it will denote you are serious.
Bringing the Diesel here means testing with the EPA and no changes can be made to the final test Config.
Everytime they have offered Diesels the sales numbers are so small around the margins, It is not worth it.
I don't blame them, in a time when capital is a precious resource a few years ago now they spent 750 million for a CVT transmission for the 500. It didn't meet market acceptance. So you are making these decisions what would you do?