Plant closings, job cuts loom at Ford

Sad News

I haven't owned Detroit Iron in years; Toyota and Honda have been making the kind of cars I want.

It's amazing that management of the US manufacturers hasn't seen the train heading straight toward them for the past 30 years and made some changes to produce a condensed line of quality cars instead of all the "shared body" junk they've been selling.

It's a shame that our auto manufacturers didn't take Lee Iacocca's famous advice to "lead, follow or get out of the way". They didn't lead, they did a lousy job of following and unfortunately it's time for another American industry to get out of the way.

 

That is quite sad for the communities that will be undoubtedly affected by this.

Technologically, Ford is in a much better place than GM or DCX in terms of their hybrid technology. Hopefully, after the painful reorganization, they will continue to make hybrid a priority.

 

Very Sad News!

I agree; my father owned NOTHING but Ford Motor Company products his entire life. That's all I owned until the middle 1980's when I purchased an Acura Legend. The rest is history and I feel somewhat badly that I changed, but Honda and Toyota have produced the products that I want. I do own a 2002 retro Ford Thunderbird but that's pretty much my "toy" and "hobby" car. My Acura MDX and Prius are my daily drives. B)

I honestly do hope Ford succeeds and I can purchase one of their upcoming hybrids in the future.

 

Hopefully Mark Fields can get the ship righted at Ford. I give Bill Ford credit for realizing he can't do it, and bringing in someone who can. This is another sad day for the United States, and changes like this will continue to erode our standard of living.

 

With all the bad news at GM and Ford, it makes me wonder, How is Chrysler doing? As an old Mopar man (from my youth, I should have kept my Duster and Roadrunner LOL) I wonder how things are going at Chrysler? Anybody got the inside scoop?

 

DCX is going to hit the wall. DCX has thousands of vehicles stored in fields in Michigan and Ohio and they are pressuring dealers to take them off their hands. Never a good situation in the long term.

 

i think Ford realizes that continuing to crank out products that no one wants is not where its at. i think they are going in the right direction but simply dont have enough product developed to keep everyone working. i cant help but think that their only hybrid product has told them that they need to address it further. they cannot continue to ignore what Toyota and honda are doing in the pasenger car area.