Ford to focus on Trucks and SUVs???

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I just read that Ford is going to cancel all but 2 cars and focus on trucks and SUVs. They will continue to make the Mustang and, if I remember right, the Fusion. I think that is a big mistake. They are going to force people who are looking for a family car to go elsewhere and if they really like, for example, the Toyota they bought, they might buy a Toyota truck next time.
 
harrisonm said:
I just read that Ford is going to cancel all but 2 cars and focus on trucks and SUVs. They will continue to make the Mustang and, if I remember right, the Fusion. I think that is a big mistake. They are going to force people who are looking for a family car to go elsewhere and if they really like, for example, the Toyota they bought, they might buy a Toyota truck next time.
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Good, I hate ford cars.
They made good trucks though.:D
 
harrisonm said:
I just read that Ford is going to cancel all but 2 cars and focus on trucks and SUVs. They will continue to make the Mustang and, if I remember right, the Fusion. I think that is a big mistake. They are going to force people who are looking for a family car to go elsewhere and if they really like, for example, the Toyota they bought, they might buy a Toyota truck next time.
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Ford is responding to their own market data and contracting their line to maximize what they sell most. No good business owner keeps making and inventorying things that they don't sell much of when the rest of the inventory is selling far better. They are better served to spend their resources maximizing what they make that sells best.

They are just doing what is in the best interest of their business.
 
Pure foolishness. One little gas crisis and they'll be.....right where Chrysler was about a decade ago...
 
Highest profit margins are on trucks and SUV's. Toyota only has 19 different unique body style models....! That bumperless 67mpg Mirai is 59K!
 
Ddaddy said:
Ford is responding to their own market data and contracting their line to maximize what they sell most. No good business owner keeps making and inventorying things that they don't sell much of when the rest of the inventory is selling far better. They are better served to spend their resources maximizing what they make that sells best.

They are just doing what is in the best interest of their business.
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Yup. Call it whatever you want, Ford has always been on the leading edge of technology and marketing.
 
...yet camrys and altimas are still selling...
 
they have always sold more trucks & suv's than anything else. still sold a crapload of escorts and focuses when I worked there.
wonder if this will be a huge flop like killing the Taurus name when I was at the dealer. also find it hard to believe they will stop selling mustangs, heck that GT was just released a few months back.
 
Take into account, too, all the issues they have been having along the front wheel drive car line. The fiasco with the transmissions cost them a mint.
 
I remember talking to the VIP of Ford auto sales in the 90's at the dealership I worked at. I asked him when Ford was going to produce a crew cab F150... he said there will never be a big demand for Four door trucks...
 
They are only continuing what has started here in Australia both Ford and GM have ceased building cars here, and we will only be getting imported versions,
Ford the big car is the Mustang and then the smaller cars are mainly European sourced where as with GM as far as can be gathered at moment there is no large car just medium to small mainly from Daewoo in South Korea,
Chrysler left us in 1980 by being purchased by Mitsubishi we currently have Chrysler Jeep back again but only with the 300 and a range of Jeeps
A lot of our larger vehicle these days are crew cab utilities and suv's
 
vitamindart said:
they have always sold more trucks & suv's than anything else. still sold a crapload of escorts and focuses when I worked there.
wonder if this will be a huge flop like killing the Taurus name when I was at the dealer. also find it hard to believe they will stop selling mustangs, heck that GT was just released a few months back.
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Mustang and some SUV-crossover version of the Focus will be the only "cars". Very sad.
 
ramenth said:
Take into account, too, all the issues they have been having along the front wheel drive car line. The fiasco with the transmissions cost them a mint.
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Since most of the small to mid-sized SUVs and crossovers are FWD car-based, how will that solve anything?
 
69_340_GTS said:
Since most of the small to mid-sized SUVs and crossovers are FWD car-based, how will that solve anything?
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The only one I know of that's front wheel drive based is the Ecosport.

The Edge, Flex, Escape, etc all start off RWD tech.
 
Pretty sure escape and edge are FWD or AWD, primarily front.
 
YY1 said:
Pretty sure escape and edge are FWD or AWD, primarily front.
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Anything that has the motor sideways is a FWD vehicle, or is based on one. They take the car and put an ugly SUV body on it, basically, and some get a transfer case, driveshaft and rear axle added to make the AWD.
 
that's what I was saying.

Someone posted that the edge was RWD.

It can be AWD, but is primarily FWD.
 
The escape is definitely a FWD with chain driven transfer box to lousy diff at rear as in aus it is still basically a rebadged Mazda
 
peedee said:
The escape is definitely a FWD with chain driven transfer box to lousy diff at rear as in aus it is still basically a rebadged Mazda
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Funny, the rebadged Mazda has a complete Ford drive train. At least it does 100 feet away in our driveway. Our 04 is a 4x4 and it's actually a pretty impressive little car. Been the best car we've ever had. Mazda doesn't make the 3.0L Duratec V6. Ford does. Mazda doesn't make the CD4E transaxle. Ford does. I think it's a more fair statement that the Mazda is a rebadged Ford. Although they could be different where you are, I am not sure.
 
RustyRatRod said:
I think it's a more fair statement that the Mazda is a rebadged Ford. Although they could be different where you are, I am not sure.
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You are 100%correct (I had a brain fart moment) there is some difference in the body with slight angle differences in the tailgate bottom corners and fuel filler door and other small things, although mine is assembled in Hiroshima all the running gear and most of the electrics are ford although the ford ranger that is sold here has Mazda running gear, so I would say that badge engineering is still alive and well, although the Mazda mob tell me the 2018 CX range has no ford in it at all, I'am not too sure I would believe them
Also in aus Mazda gave a longer warranty than ford prior to the last 3 years, after kia started having a 7 year 175000 km warranty all our local mobs have increased their warranties to minimum 5 years whereas prior to that you were lucky to get 12 months 20000km or 2 years 40000km
 
That's why I kept sayin that's how it is HERE, because Ford does and makes things differently elsewhere. Yall got some cool stuff down there......like the Clevelands and all that. We never got a closed chamber two barrel Cleveland head and yall did. So many vehicles yall got I wish we had. Like the Valiant Ute and the Valiant Charger to name two. I ain't no genius.....only reason I knew about the Escape is because we have one. Been a dang good one so far. Even though we just had the transmission built. It's still kickin right along.

peedee said:
You are 100%correct (I had a brain fart moment) there is some difference in the body with slight angle differences in the tailgate bottom corners and fuel filler door and other small things, although mine is assembled in Hiroshima all the running gear and most of the electrics are ford although the ford ranger that is sold here has Mazda running gear, so I would say that badge engineering is still alive and well, although the Mazda mob tell me the 2018 CX range has no ford in it at all, I'am not too sure I would believe them
Also in aus Mazda gave a longer warranty than ford prior to the last 3 years, after kia started having a 7 year 175000 km warranty all our local mobs have increased their warranties to minimum 5 years whereas prior to that you were lucky to get 12 months 20000km or 2 years 40000km
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I think there still going to make Lincoln cars if you want a full size, IE the Continental.
BTW, I wont buy anything new but a Ford since Chrysler sold out to Fiat and both GM and Chrysler exec's enjoyed getting bonuses from our tax dollars when Ford took nothing. And theirs a reason the F-150 has been the best selling truck for 50 years.
 
One of the few "backwards" rebadgings.

Isuzu had a rebadged s-10 and the mazda navajo was a bronco II

there's even a mitsubisi Dakota!
 
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