Ford’s going where GM and Chrysler can’t, and by the way, Boeing is paving the way. Mulally isn’t an idiot.
Since the union won’t give Ford the same deal they gave GM and Chrysler, then they are voting them off the island.
Buy them out, take the hit, and move out of Detroit for Georgia and South Carolina. Now you have non-union Fords competing against union GM and Chrysler. No contest. Feds will have to unfairly extend GM and Chrysler all kinds of help to compete. It won’t take long, maybe two years, and the public will vote with their feet against Government Motors and Subsidysler.
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They are voting now. Ford's market share is up 1% to 15.9, but that is a marginal increase for them of 6.7%.
They are ramping up production by 58% next quarter.
The big question is, do they turn a slight profit for 2009.
With all these zephyrs filling their sails, when does even more buyers look away from the Gov't Motors Twins, because people want to buy a winner and something that is hot, not a kludge.
Speaking with the husband of a women that is a Corp Turn around Guru. It takes 3 yrs to change a culture. Hmmm Mulally has been their 3 years. GM is on CEO number 3 in one year, and is looking for a new one. Their is no leadership or mantra anyone can get behind. Epic Fail IMHO, this ain't gonna work and America is picking up the tab, and Liberals who are paying for it at sometime point are going to be pissed.