>> “You build what the watermelons tell you to build and sell. Or else” <<
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Actually, that started with W.
That’s why you can’t buy a Ford Excursion with a 7.3 diesel any more. W declared war on diesels in 2002. Now they’re all small and gutless, and use more fuel than the gassers use.
My understanding is Ford dropped that line because it wasn’t cost-effective to keep manufacturing it due to low numbers of sales.
W was a big-government member of the Ruling Elite, so no love from me.
That said, W comes nowhere near the fascist takeover of industry as we’ve seen in the past few years (auto-manufacturing, healthcare, banking, equities markets, forex, mortages, etc.).
That’s why you can’t buy a Ford Excursion with a 7.3 diesel any more.
For that matter, you can’t buy a Ford Excursion either. A very popular vehicle for very specific work.