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11-02-2009, 10:52 AM
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| | surrender da 99 bananas!
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| no joke. family owned, and family operated. stompin the hell out of government motors!
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11-02-2009, 10:55 AM
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| | Irrelevant since 09/2007
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| we'll see what they do when they don't have cash for clunkers. | |
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11-02-2009, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by droski  we'll see what they do when they don't have cash for clunkers. | They did better than the other two before clunkers. The Ford CEO (Mullaly, I think?) is doing a good job. | |
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11-02-2009, 11:17 AM
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| | Dawn of a New Day
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| Alan Mulally is one of the best CEO's around today. He was driving a Lexus and called it the best car in the world when he was announced as Ford's new CEO. He doesn't believe in rose colored glasses and has encouraged his staff to also feel comfortable in saying what's on their minds... i.e. no sugar-coating allowed. | 
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11-02-2009, 11:24 AM
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| | doo doo doo
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| I saw a story somewhere that they picked up market share partly because they didn't take government money. Some might be principle some might be concern about the future of GM/Chrysler.
Either way, good to see.
I think they've been more aggressive in hybrids and technology (e.g. SYNC) than the other two dinosaurs and that's probably got a lot to do with it too.
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11-02-2009, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by rjd970 They did better than the other two before clunkers. The Ford CEO (Mullaly, I think?) is doing a good job. | no question. ford is the best of the us automakers. but that is kind of like being the one eyed man in teh land of the blind | |
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11-02-2009, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by droski no question. ford is the best of the us automakers. but that is kind of like being the one eyed man in teh land of the blind | haha | |
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11-02-2009, 12:10 PM
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| | Bring'in Her Back!
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| Credit to OE........"Government Sucks" | |
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11-02-2009, 12:13 PM
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| | surrender da 99 bananas!
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Originally Posted by droski no question. ford is the best of the us automakers. but that is kind of like being the one eyed man in teh land of the blind | id rather be able to be able to see and have bad depth perception then to blindly follow around the voice of a "shepard"
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11-02-2009, 12:39 PM
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| The Boeing guy who is running the company has done a good job. A lot of the new cars are being engineered in Germany and built in Mexico, its more of a global company then American company now. Not a bad thing. I think the Ford Focus and the Ford Fiesta which is coming out in 2011 were engineered in Ford Europe (Germany) and the Fiesta is going to be built in Mexico. I think they reduced there stake in Mazda to like 11%.
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11-02-2009, 02:09 PM
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| | Say what?
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| now if Ford could just extricate itself from the clutches of the corrupt UAW.
It'd also be nice if they gave the V-6 Mustang more horsepower. It's 100 shy of the Camaro V-6 and Hyundai Genesis Coupe V-6 and a Toyota Camry can beat it to 60 mph.
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11-02-2009, 02:19 PM
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| | Bring'in Her Back!
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| buy the "real" mustang | |
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11-02-2009, 02:30 PM
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| | Say what?
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Originally Posted by T-TownVol buy the "real" mustang | I'm just saying that if Chevy and Hyundai can drop 300 plus HP V-6's in their base cars, Ford can too.
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11-02-2009, 02:54 PM
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| It would be nice if they could shuck the UAW... I kind of wonder if they knew they weren't stuck with the pricetag of nearly 100 bucks an hour for their employees if they'd open up a plant here in the south to build their smaller cars. Honest question not a statement of "believed fact." | |
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