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Ford is already in a bit of financial trouble. This obviously won’t help.
1 posted on 06/16/2021 6:05:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

Make them in the USA and the problem is solved.


2 posted on 06/16/2021 6:06:45 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Here’s YouTube’s premier car mechanic Scotty Kilmer talking about this issue. Scotty knows his stuff. Beyond that, he’s just fun to listen to.

https://youtu.be/L_j9VQTw9pE


3 posted on 06/16/2021 6:10:33 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

Ford shoulda continued production of the Econoline with the 2.7L/10 spd/4x4 powertrain.

Let them pay the ‘Rat tariff.


4 posted on 06/16/2021 6:11:20 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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“Ford May Pay U.S. $1.3 Billion Fine For Importing Transit As Passenger Van From Turkey..”

The US...world’s greatest extortionist. It’ll just be built into the price of new Ford products.


5 posted on 06/16/2021 6:12:39 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Leaning Right

I like Ford. My next vehicle will be a Ford small sized SUV.

They should have been honest.
I hope it won’t hurt them too much.


9 posted on 06/16/2021 6:15:41 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Leaning Right

When the Euros drop their tariffs we MAY drop ours. Wait Slow Joe dropped our import tariffs and the Euros kept theirs....


10 posted on 06/16/2021 6:15:52 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Ford Transit has been around for a long time. This is a 1966 camper.


15 posted on 06/16/2021 6:20:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Leaning Right

Reminds me of “Pigs is Pigs”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs_Is_Pigs


16 posted on 06/16/2021 6:20:44 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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"Chicken tax? Never heard of it. This is un-Kramerican!"


23 posted on 06/16/2021 6:37:40 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Ford doesn’t care ,soon it will be All Electric and ready to be super rich when the Government bans Gasoline


24 posted on 06/16/2021 6:38:38 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Especially since the Transit Connects are good sellers for Ford.

Try finding a 2021 on a lot right now.


27 posted on 06/16/2021 6:46:03 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Leaning Right
They bolted some seats into the cargo compartment of a cargo van and called it a passenger van.

Subaru did the same thing in the '80s with their Brat to circumvent a tariff on imported pickups.


30 posted on 06/16/2021 6:47:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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To: Leaning Right

Almost purchased a Case or New Holland mid size tractor, then found out it was made in where the Transit is.


44 posted on 06/16/2021 7:54:03 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: Leaning Right

In Thailand years ago they banned the importation of teak logs to prevent deforestation in Burma. But teak furniture was OK. So the logging companies milled the lumber in to big planks, coated them in polyurethane or something similar and called them tables. Then when the were delivered to Thailand they stripped the polyurethane off.


48 posted on 06/16/2021 9:27:38 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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Well the EPA was able to steal 19 billion from VW over their diesel automobiles which are the best. Today VW sells diesel cars all over but not in the USA. Their diesel cars are very high MPH. The highest of hi-tech when it comes to their diesel engines.


51 posted on 06/17/2021 3:35:26 AM PDT by dennisw
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I see Transit vans here used as work vans. By electricians and the like. Some are on the small side. I have seen large Transits that can seat 9 or more in Europe.


52 posted on 06/17/2021 3:38:41 AM PDT by dennisw
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