I give a lot credence to Ford as any and all decisions they currently make have to be as efficient and effective as possible with no error for second guessing. I am actually considering purchasing Ford stock as they can easily sell off divisions and concentrate on what they do best. Ford, also has a distinct advantage over GM at this point as Ford is no longer deluding itself of where they are at, and hence have a much clearer vision of where they need to go. I would also be happy to see Ford and GM join forces—if that’s what it took—to team up for the home team, versus the standardized nonsense of Ford sucks or GM sucks. I don’t care who makes what as long as they give the customer three things: 1) Purchase value 2) High Quality 3) Moderate to high resale value.

Ditch Jaguar….. even the Lincoln MKR Concept looks better than the Jaguar concept, and if that fortells the future, the XF is not going to be the chart burner Ford thinks it will be….

Ditch Jaguar, concentrate on Lincoln…

If they are smart they’ll prove me wrong…..

LLN must have listened to the haters of the Bold Moves episodes from Ford and has not posted a link to the latest one. This has to be one of the most exciting ones of things to come.

http://www.fordboldmoves.com/episode.aspx?episode=28

Haters need not click on the link!!!

But, I suppose it’s Toyota, so it’s ok if their truck gets 11 mpgs. And it’s ok that Honda and Nissan added truck products in the last two years while Ford and GM have been reducing their truck lines while simultaneously making them more fuel efficient than before.

Oh, but it could be you are referring to that Edge and the new GM crossovers which are rated well above 20 mpg combined EPA. It’s a shame that they’re coming out with efficient vehicles that people might actually buy. They’re so selfish and ignorant of consumer demands (as the CUV market grows faster and the full-size truck market has stayed historically high). But it’s ok for Toyota to release the FJ to the market that gets worse gas mileage than any of those vehicles, as well as increasing the size of the Rav4 significantly, again, hurting efficiency, despite what the EPA numbers say, because Toyota is perfect and I love them. They can do wrong. Detroit is so stupid.

Idiot.

By the way, F451, I agree that they have nothing to lose, and I think mortgaging the company wasn’t a bad idea. At this point, I almost believe that Ford and GM need a technological leap of some type to get people back into the showrooms in the numbers that they need to be sustainable long term. I’m sure that Ford will level off and save itself a little time until 2012-2013, but I think Ford will need a game changing tech, possibly even greater than the Prius. There’s a lot of mistrust and discontent, some very much warranted, some flamed unnecessarily and becoming a bit baseless, and they will probably need a real attraction to get people to return.

http://media.ford.com/newsroom/release_display.cfm?release=25114