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180 messages, Last post on Nov 08, 2007 at 7:04 PM
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Replying to: boaz47 (Oct 03, 2007 2:58 pm) Plus, the Toyota Tundra is eating into the F150's sales. Nissan was a different deal. They aren't burdened w/ UAW contracts,job banks,outmoded factories,too many dealers, and no products. Nisaan needed money for product development,which they got from Renault. They were able to produce an almost totally new lineup in a very short period of time. Something Ford cannot seem to do. |
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Replying to: volvomax (Oct 04, 2007 1:33 pm) I will freely admit that I didn't realize that the Tundra was anywhere near the sales figures of the Ford F series Trucks. Last time I looked Ford was selling something like 600k or 700k F-series and I didn't know Tundra had increased sales over 200k yet. But ever since I decided to retire I stopped subscribing to Morgan and Company because of the subscription fee. But anything is possible. Ford could go and take Volvo, Jag, and Land rover with it. GM could kill Saab. Many have predicted a world with maybe three auto manufacturers like GM, Toyota and VAG. I just doubt if the end is that near. Besides it Looks like GM may have negotiated a pretty good deal to get some UAW relief in their last contract. You and I may be paying for some of those union pensions before Ford has to close shop. 
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Replying to: boaz47 (Oct 06, 2007 1:12 pm) Carlos Ghosn has been berry berry good to Nissan
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This time to Ford: "James Farley, head of Toyota's luxury division, is leaving to head Ford marketing. He had also headed Toyota's Scion division, overseeing the launch of the trendy, youth-oriented car brand. He had been with Toyota for 17 years." Ford lures Lexus chief away (CNN Money) Ford stock is up 7% today as I post this.
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Replying to: volvomax (Oct 08, 2007 9:29 am) Still Ford has a long way to go before we can close the lid on the box. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Oct 11, 2007 12:17 pm) DrFill |
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Replying to: volvomax (Oct 04, 2007 1:33 pm)
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Replying to: lemko (Oct 12, 2007 4:27 am) At least the tooling is paid for on the US Focus, so Ford won't lose money on it. |
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Replying to: volvomax (Oct 08, 2007 9:29 am) Carlos Ghosn has been berry berry good to Nissan I think the exterior designer at Nissan his exterior design ideas(Jerry Hirschbergs) got stale in the mid to late 90's and that led to Nissan's decline before Ghosn went in there and singlehandily solved Nissan;s exterioe designs problems. I mean the 2000 Maxima redesign or refresh(whatever you want to call it) was a terrible mistake I think. Its interseting Renault did buy into Nissan into 1999 but yet Renuault let the 2000 Maxima go as is into production. They should have just kept the whole interior of the 2000 Maxima as is because the interior was top of the line and redo the whole 2000 Maxima exterior body style before it went into production. I think Ghosn or Nissan for that matter did redo some of the 2001 Sentra exterior bodystyle before it was released in early 2000 because it was too conservative. The 95 Sentra did get a little refresh in 99 I think and the Pathfinder(relased brand new as a 1997 model) did get a refresh and the refreshed model did get a unique model year name called the 99.5 Pathfinder I think. |
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