who can afford an automobile nowadays with all these taxes going to freeloaders and illegal aliens?
No one wants crappy aluminum cars that have been neutered to meet Obama’s CAFE standards.
The aluminum F150 is going to be an albatross around Ford’s neck.
I don’t know about their whole line, but the F150 is expensive as s*^%.
the auto industry was perhaps the last shining light for battered US manufacturing during the past several years
Only because of Sub Prime Auto Loans that happen to be Blowing Up all across America as we Speak.
I’ve heard that they plan to open factories in Mexico.
...due to preparing to move the plants to Mexico.
Fact.
The shine has gone off news automobiles and trucks. They cost as much as a small home.
They don't make 'em the way they used to ...
Perhaps Berry needs to throw his union buddies another ‘cash for clunkers’ bone....
Funny how Ford never closes their brand new state of the art plants in Mexico.
Big deal. Everything’s fine. The UAW will continue its rubber-stamp support for the Democratic Party.
Ford also closed it’s plant in Australia, in the last month or so.
I like Ford. I have currently four of them (if you count a 1967 Mercury Cougar), and have had good service out of them. However, when we bought a new compact SUV this summer, my wife and I went for a Honda CR-V.
We test drove it back-to-back against a Ford Escape and Jeep Cherokee, and the Honda came out on top for the following reasons:
1. The interior is nicely styled in a conventional way, and you don’t feel like you’re trapped in some geometric M.C. Escher nightmare.
2. The belt-line is low and there is a lot of glass. The Honda feels light and airy, and visibility is excellent. The Escape and Cherokee feel like you are in a bunker.
3. The handling felt the most car-like and nimble, not pseudo truck-like.
4. The Honda normally aspirated engine was the most responsive and felt the strongest in normal driving. The tiny Ford turbo engine might beat it in horsepower at the screaming top end, but floor it on the street and you know they haven’t conquered turbo-lag yet. The Jeep 9-speed auto transmission kept hunting for gears just driving down the street at constant speed, and that killed the deal right there.
My wife drives the Honda every day, and loves it.
Increase prices. It works just like raising taxes.
Trumps fault.
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They’ve made those things so ugly, who would want them?
The Pickups are gaudy to the max, and the bubble cars are all tiny death traps, all of them, not just Ford.
They had the Mustang right in ‘05, but they just had to mess with success.
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...Ford Motor Co. is shutting down production for a week at the Louisville Assembly Plant starting Monday, canceling shifts to slow production slightly. A second week off is scheduled to start Oct. 31.
Sales of the two compact SUVs are up slightly through September, but Ford officials said they want to keep production and inventory levels in line...
We’ve been quasi-shopping for a car, and Obama Motors (GM) is out, I don’t see a thing I like in the entire Ford line. The pickups in both brands are just too damn huge, and gaudy. You can’t put items over in the bed, you have to climb up to the bed...and sometimes, to the cab. SUV’s, the same.
The only car I’ve like, so far, is the 2015 Honda Crosstour, which is discontinued, and has had some issues. So, I guess that’s out as a used car...but I’m not buying new.
As other posters have said, almost $1K a month for health insurance for me and my wife takes away any possibility of new wheels.
The car mfg’s need to be raising hell at Obama, and back the candidate who’ll get rid of Obamacare, and that ain’t Hillary.