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Great story SBT ;~)

That was GOOD! I think you just added two years on my life in laughter!

Thanks, ans so true!

SEED

I will say this,  The old bosses at ford really had no vision for the future, but the new team in there know is really good.  When Carl Ichan puts billions of his monry on the line to invest in Ford things can not be all bad.    But really when you look at it in prospective  ford made Trucks and Suvs that were the top sellers in their class for many years.

I do not think anyone would have throught that oil prices would rise 300% so fast.

  Another thing about Toyota is they have been making small gas sipping cars for a very long time,  there is time that theses products go in and out of style.  Remember most americans would still drive a big Suv if the millage would increass by 10 to 15%.  also  remember that not to long along that Ford was selling 1.50000  F150 a year  making 15%  per truck that rolled off the assembly line. the market is changing but it will all work out for them in the end.

 Ford has very brighter in the near future. 

     I will take all comers in this thread.  I have really been studied  this 

 Take emotion out and lets have a serious chat so i can school  you with some fax.

the reason ford bought volvo cars is because they have the technology and ford can build the parts for them.

toyota is the major consumer of asin/warner transmissions the are used in volvos but only to volvos specs. a toyota motor is a rip off of volvo, their axles are GM

putz wants people with toyota manufactouring experience.

if GM went away would we miss them, well all they do is mass produce crap after someone else developed the market.

hey ford is a great company and they will start suppling euro cars to the US.

when iam in the KTM motorcycle shop for dirt bikes and they tell me that they have a new plant to double thier production it makes me think do they not care about the lack of fuel or the cost, nope.

This story makes me sick!Because its true.Lord help us!!

American auto mfg’s have two very large problems,

1.       They never drove the consumer to understand what he needed. They thought that the oil bid’nez was on the same side that they were and bigger is better; and bigger and even better was a huge auto gas guzzler that self destructed after 4.3 years.

2.       The giant, ever growing liability of retirement benefit obligations.

The Japanese walked in the door with a good product that had fewer bells and whistles but ran well and lasted one hell of a long time. They set up production in non union areas of the country and were able to produce a product without the retirement obligations that are the anchor on the American side of the industries ass.

The moral of the story?

When every country in the industrialized world has  government supported retirement and health benefits except the USA; it is almost impossible for the American company to compete.

All those dollars that the US company is spending on benefits off shore companies are spending on research and development.

Ever watch GUNGHO? I will stick with American ways thank you!

Yes, I saw it. It was very funny.

The part that everyone forgets is the alternative was unemployment. And the American workers did, at the end, come to a workable situation with the evil empire.

Did I mention that all of those people were UN-employed?

If americans can pull together this country would be awsome. If they stop thinking JUST about themselves we would strive

strive (strīv)