My whole life I have owned Ford, a Subaru and one Dodge. My 91′ Ford Taurus never had any problems, not one single time did it fail when I chocked it to the brim with heavy equipement, had a fair amount of power and was quality. It’s too bad it had rat fur carpeting, and was a bit too boring compared to the Subaru, but had more capacity and much better quality.

My 96′ Ford F-150 has never had any problems either, aside from the oil pan. It’s a nice truck, plenty of power and quality built. I don’t care what you say, it would beat my Dodge Dakota (V8) into the ground, with overall quality and equipement.

A friend of mine owned a Chevrolet Silverado, around the same age as my F-150 and very similar options, and he had problem after problem after problem. It seemed to never end, first something to do with the transmission, then the engine, something to do with the alternator, and back to the transmission again. Not only that, but the last generation Silverados were so bland and ugly, yet this generation is handsome, but boring.

Now, this is just personal experience, not actual JD Power and Associates, but I can say Ford’s gained my trust in the automotive industry.

Get Real, they opted for 100 of their best workers, most likely they had worked their for a long period of time. Would you rather have 100 devoted workers, or try to mess around with the 100 devoted workers group mixed into a group of new employees?

And, we’re talking Ford here. They’re not exactly the paragon of organization.

Does this number not bother anyone…..even Ford ???

Shouldn’t it be 1,000 or 5,000 best workers ?

In all of FoMoCo only 100 could be found to offer any ideas on how to better build an automobile ??

Everybody knows the truck argument is “Ford Vs. Chevy,” but they allowed their cars afterthought status too long.

Your programmer from the Scientolgy group called, you missed your last “tune-up” meeting.

This site is for a lot of wannabees, wankers and “I know I could run (BMW, Audi, Chrysler, Ford -insert make here)-better than they do” Easy to trash a make when you do it from behind a handle and no one knows who you really are. Perhaps GM_Sales is REALLY Bob Lutz? I doubt it though, I talked to Bob Lutz years ago and he didn’t seem that stupid………..

But it is the media that, in their mad and mindless hunt for ratings, blows everything so far out of proportion that everyone thinks FORD makes junk. The tire fiasco and few years back was one thing (betcha they were Chinese tires), there have also been bad ignition switches and so on. But no other manufacturer has been immune, but in this country its Detroit that takes on the chin for any fault or recall. Toyota has had their reliability slip noticeably, but no one reports that as much as on Detroit. One would think that Toyota does not advertise on TV much because they are spending so much money on steering the media elsewhere.

Hybrids that wouldn’t stop accelerating, faulty electrical components causing fires or serious system malfunctions, badly failing crash tests, and worse, but no one reports on that like it were some kind of conspiracy to sell junk.

Plus Toyota is NOT the only company whose quality is less than par. Even Mercedes-Benz and BMW, Nissan, and others are guilty of sending out products that are either not ready or just shotty.

FORD is NOT the only company with reliability issues. Having that motto “Quality is job one.” doesn’t help either but they are hardly the worst offenders and this article should be seen more as “FORD is doing something about it” rather than, what every other person responding seems to be saying, what amounts to “FORD has a problem”.

Bold moves? Given the way people love to curb stomp someone when they stumble or are down trying to get back up, the bold move is allowing this to come out.

We can blame Mazda for that one.

I think Mercury needs some better-defined niche. Why buy a Mountaneer instead of an explorer? Let’s see a new Cougar or a new Marauder that’s unique, and not “very similar” to something you can get at a Ford dealer. Maybe Ford should be trucks/SUVs and the Mustang (that CAN’T move)and mercury have the 500, Fusion and Focus, renamed

Having the line workers actually same, this part should be metal, or that screw needed to be longer, is nothing new. I’m sure foreign makers have been doing this for decades. If this is actually news, as in ” FORD has never done this before”, then this is a “hang your head in shame, fool” moment for FORD.

Even though a prototype will hold up to the stress testing before production, it’s the line workers who actually put theses machines together that will see the mistakes the engineers will miss, like that screw than never goes in tight enough, or the wires than get badly pinched during assembly.

FORD needs to get on the ball like mad before I can say anything positive about them again.

And GMSALES… for the love of god man… it’s bad enough having to swat at the import pansies without you coming along and bickering amongst the domestic makes. Say what you want about their cars but the do make a damn good truck, if you can’t admit that you’re as diluted as that limey bitch Stuart.

Bryce… no those were just the customers that flipped him off when walking out… the number of lost sales is really about four times that.

I looked at GMs when I bought but the salespeople were arrogant A-holes who wanted very little to do with negotiotion (on a flippin truck?) and so I skipped over to Ford and got the same thing for about $6k less.

And neither I nor my bankbook have regretted it once.

Ford truck guys just lease their crap until it breaks and they can lease another one. 12 month leases are 90% of Fords business for that reason.

Ford Trucks are great, a 99 to GM’s 100. It’s like who would you rather go to bed with, Monica Sweetheart or Brooke burke?