EcoVert
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Let gas get back to $5.00 a gallon and see what happens people will be dumping there suv's like crazy. $ 5.00 a gallon gas is what caused Ford to recommit to small cars in the early 2000's
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Unfortunately that is the painful truth the only thing that matters is your stock price and the dividends paid to the share holders.Jobs? Hahahahaha. The only thing that matters is getting money in the shareholder’s pockets.
22 mpg is a hellava lot different than 30 mpg when gas is 4 to 5 dollars a gallon and you fill up your car. I can tell you it made a big dent in my wallet when gas was near 5 dollars a gallon and I was driving a Focus ZX3.It's a whole different game when your SUV struggles to get 10 MPG and the car gets 25-30 MPG. Payback is short.
But when your CUV gets 22-28 (Escape) you really are not searching for that 30-35 MPG $hitbox.
I still think they should have at least kept the Fusion. It's a really nice car that unlike the Taurus (which started out awesome) didn't die on the vine.
To go 1000 Miles:22 mpg is a hellava lot different than 30 mpg when gas is 4 to 5 dollars a gallon and you fill up your car. I can tell you it made a big dent in my wallet when gas was near 5 dollars a gallon and I was driving a Focus ZX3.
The ford ranger died is the only reason tacomas became popular! Ford axed the ranger back in 2011 and you see how long that lasted... Ford is messing up again, but atleast we get to keep the mustang even if in 5 years it will be 4 cylinders or electric. I will hold my 16 for ever. Last new car i buy.Yeah, the Japanese domination is probably another reason Ford left the market. They can't compete. And why would they if the Sedan is heading towards an inevitable irrelevance?
I mean it's still a big market, but all signs show it in a sharp decline.
Exactly, which is why this move doesn't appear to make any business sense. Profit is profit. If you have product A that costs you X to make (all in cost) and you sell it for X+Y, you are making Y profit on that product. It doesn't matter that product B makes Yx2 profit. If you stop making product A you lose Y profit unless you think you can turn A sales into B sales, and I don't see any indication that people who want a sedan will buy an SUV just because Ford stops making sedans. They will just buy a Camry or Accord or Malibu.If sedans were a small market I'd agree with you. Small markets with profit, albeit very low margins, are the kinds of markets where you question staying in. They become a distraction and drain on the high volume & profit products.
Honda and Toyota just launched brand new Accords and Camrys. They are selling very well.
Jobs? Hahahahaha. The only thing that matters is getting money in the shareholder’s pockets.
Because I hate that everyone drives a Monster truck or CUV aka new Minivan blocking my view on the road since they sit high off the ground, blocking spaces and dinging my car in parking lots since they are larger, driving slow around corners since their center of gravity is so high. Why would any car enthusiast not be upset at this??? F Jim Hackett. F him right in the A.To every one up in arms, did you not see the part where the Mustang isn't going anywhere? Why do you all care about their sedans and hatchbacks?
True, but when gas shoots back up, they can always just import their smaller cars that will still be selling in other parts of the world. It's not like Ford is stopping those cars for the entire world.Indeed. People seem to forget exactly what national $4/gallon of gasoline did for truck and SUV sales.
So why not do that now?True, but when gas shoots back up, they can always just import their smaller cars that will still be selling in other parts of the world. It's not like Ford is stopping those cars for the entire world.
Understand your thought process, but in defense of Hackett, he didnt create this situation, hes just dealing with it. (Insert Reservoir Dogs meme).Because I hate that everyone drives a Monster truck or CUV aka new Minivan blocking my view on the road since they sit high off the ground, blocking spaces and dinging my car in parking lots since they are larger, driving slow around corners since their center of gravity is so high. Why would any car enthusiast not be upset at this??? F Jim Hackett. F him right in the A.