Rob Stevens, chief engineer for Ford's commercial vehicles, says the auto maker decided against shipping the seats back to Turkey for use in the next wave of vans for the U.S.
"We thought going through the recycling process was best," he said. "The steel is valuable."
1 posted on
10/03/2009 12:44:34 PM PDT by
1rudeboy
To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama
2 posted on
10/03/2009 12:44:57 PM PDT by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
The company I work for just recieved delivery of one of these vans for use by service technicians.
4 posted on
10/03/2009 12:51:26 PM PDT by
TaxPayer2000
(The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
To: 1rudeboy
If aliens came to earth, they'd think we were the stupidest people in the universe. Bizzaro world, indeed.
10 posted on
10/03/2009 1:07:42 PM PDT by
Clock King
(There's no way to fix D.C.)
To: 1rudeboy
14 posted on
10/03/2009 2:57:36 PM PDT by
GeronL
(meow)
To: 1rudeboy
You would think that after 46 years someone might have thought this needed to be dumped?
15 posted on
10/03/2009 2:58:07 PM PDT by
GeronL
(meow)
To: 1rudeboy
17 posted on
10/03/2009 3:29:07 PM PDT by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: 1rudeboy
You realize those vans could have been made by poor, starving underage waifs who were paid slave wages, don’t you?! Moreover, why would German chicken farmers in good conscience allow dirty, disease-ridden American chickens into their country?
18 posted on
10/03/2009 3:31:03 PM PDT by
dr_who
To: 1rudeboy
And you wonder why your cars cost so much?
You don't know the half of the BS they go through to design and build ....
BTW, this car is selling quite well. What is ugly about all of this is, with the seats it will be a niche car for customizers, small families needing a around the town scooter, and that is just for starters.
To saddle a success story with such nonsense is could be construde as a reason we have tea-parties, no common sense in Washington or in Intl affairs....
19 posted on
10/03/2009 3:37:58 PM PDT by
taildragger
(Palin/Mulally 2012)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
vans from a Ford Motor Co. factory in Turkey
Here's an idea -- build the vans in the US.
27 posted on
10/03/2009 5:36:49 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
31 posted on
10/03/2009 7:34:43 PM PDT by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
To: 1rudeboy
Taxes are like zombies, they cannot be killed.
34 posted on
10/03/2009 8:26:55 PM PDT by
reg45
(Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
To: 1rudeboy
The fabric is shredded, Ford says some parts of my Mustang seats are made from recycled material.
To: 1rudeboy
In the 80’s there was an SUV tarrif on japanese imports. Isuzu imported the trooper without a backseat which allowed to avoid the tariff. The dealers offered the rear seat as a local option.
39 posted on
10/03/2009 8:58:03 PM PDT by
Rebelbase
(This is the time of year when ACORNS fall.)
To: 1rudeboy
Good thing Ford doesn't have to consult the emperor about this.
GM would never be permitted to do anything so efficient and nefariously capitalistic
44 posted on
10/03/2009 9:49:27 PM PDT by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: 1rudeboy
[[”We thought going through the recycling process was best,” he said. “The steel is valuable.”]]
Obamacare- Soilent Green is people (”We decided not to fix them up but rather that putting htem through a recycling process was best,” he said. “The food value is valuable”
49 posted on
10/03/2009 10:37:26 PM PDT by
CottShop
(Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
To: 1rudeboy
Insanity, but not all that surprising.
50 posted on
10/04/2009 2:44:18 AM PDT by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: 1rudeboy
You'd think the Wall Street Journal could manage a decent picture of this thing, instead of the two distorted/from weird angles ones they used. Damned too-artsy art/layout directors.
Looks like a smaller version of the Mercedes / Dodge Sprinter, but competing in the same general space.
51 posted on
10/04/2009 2:56:34 AM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(No Representation without Taxation!)
To: 1rudeboy
I wonder how they modify the chickens to circumvent the tariffs in the other direction.
To: 1rudeboy
A paraphrase of Sodnagel’s Fourth Principle:
“The stupider it is, the more likely that it is required by law.”
58 posted on
01/11/2010 7:22:43 AM PST by
Erasmus
(She was a BBC newsreader, marrying above her station.)
To: 1rudeboy
And people will entrust their healthcare to the adminstrators of
“the chicken tax”.
Welcome to the age of EXTREME madness.
64 posted on
01/11/2010 8:54:03 AM PST by
VOA
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