From my experience in different companies, I rarely had to work with as many colleagues with the title "technical specialists" as in Ford. Problem, the level of expertise, knowledge, experience is just miserable. With due respect to many technical... — read more 

“Ford recently marked down its electric Mustang Mach-E by 17 percent.” We were already losing money on every EV we sold, so now we are losing more. We need a lot less people in Model e to break even.

When will Ford Management start to talk to us? every Town Hall or Building Ford Blue all they do is read to us. I fell like I'm at story time at the local Library. If they had any confidence in what they are persisting they should be able to "Talk"... — read more 

You know its coming

What kind of a download is this? Could it be the big one? T bye bye file?

Most of talents are leaving Ford because they don't put up with incompetent SV, or they were simply kicked out. The behaviors of superiors and colleagues are often questionable, honesty, gratitude, collaboration, ... pushing many employees away... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/09/rto_quit_study/

Why are Ford vehicle design team cannot design any new products that looks attractive? The new redesigned Ford and Lincoln still looks as the old products from 6 years ago. Ford is loosing market share because of this and they have no idea how... — read more 

Yes, they are because Dave Calhoun, Boeing current CEO has thrown his in name in the hat to be named Fords new CEO in January when he officially leaves Boeing. You know Dave's reputation he cemented at Boeing is that he is an account bean-counter... — read more 

When you can't deliver a quality vehicle, you put a ton of time and energy into an old train station, to make people believe Ford is doing great things. Diversion is an ugly thing, and not healthy for a corporation.

Waste of money. It shows that Ford is glorifying the past and not innovating or moving forward to the future.

This week, Ford launched mass production of Explorer in Germany. The next day it, it was announced that the CEO FoE will leave FORD and head back to VW. Ford can't compete with EVs in Europe, everyone agrees, this was stated by the ex GM. Is Ford... — read more 

Here in Detroit, there's been much news about the $ 1 billion that Ford spent on repairs for the old train station. That money could have been used to fund at least 2 new vehicle programs. But the work done is beautiful and should help the city... — read more 

Is it because all the GM flunkies, you know Government Motors that have showed up at Ford over the years and are now in charge.

Ford may have poached him from Blue Bird. https://investors.blue-bird.com/company-information/officers-directors/

I have no doubt Ford will soon be doing the same. I know, I know, office space! Blah blah blah. I don't think they'll let their $1 billion investment in the Drain, I meant I Train Station sit empty. The RTO full-time is nigh.

We can’t make back up cameras that work and we expect customers to trust us with cost effective autonomous driving. LOL. Chief Executive Jim Farley said the automaker expects to start offering the so-called Level 3 autonomous driving technology by... — read more 

This is the car channel I subscribe, unlike other gimmick review, this is what an engineering review I am looking for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCNyhqIuRNw&ab_channel=speedkar99

Compared to 4-5 yrs ago (smart redesign), how many of engineers now have Ford Mexico, Brazil, China, India (GES) engineers on your team? How’s it working out? Is the percentage of North American team members greatly diminished, and do the remote... — read more 

https://youtu.be/tfC_-Ub9lRM?si=Z3SMGOQsHdyKG8Uc

https://youtube.com/shorts/6DPC_-VVebk?si=mn-mGANuX0N7ctJO

Many executives were given the sack, only after a short period (mainly D. Field team). There are equally relatively young persons being hired. Little that I see in town halls and department meetings, but are they fit for this period?

I am starting to miss the mindless troll post such as What does a LL6 (LL_) make, or I am contract and none of the blue stripers do anything or My LL6 does nothing all day.

There are a more than few areas that aren’t adding value. It’s good news that FordLabs is gone, nothing of value came out of that experiment. Ford Next and Canopy should be eliminated, they are dragging down profitability by $5 billion... — read more 

I heard FordLabs was shut down and all employees had till end of Summer to find a role internally. Is this verified?

Give us the good old 5.1 liter V8 and the 6-speed that ran forever. My 2008 had no problems we see in the models today: 10-speed transmissions, cam phasers, recalls. What the heck are you doing Ford?!

Working here was the biggest mistake I've made in my career. Morale is below the basement Pay is below market Co workers are warming their seats, no actual work is being done. Look at good stocks and look at Ford's ; decades of stagnancy and... — read more 

Where is the commenter that claimed the stock wasn't in the cr-pper? $5/share here we come!

Heard Hoevener is out effective immediately to 'explore new opportunities' who is next in LL world?

We are not #1 anymore with customer service due to failed apps like Ford account manager and Ford Pass. dealers are treating customers cr-ppy with all the recall issues. daily complaints about vehicles spending more time in the shop than on the... — read more 

Agency person. Just been informed that I’ve been let go. Staying positive and looking for a new chapter.

Opinion by the Editorial Board. Read it if you have access... Here is one paragraph: "Ford is supporting the Administration’s regulation because it wants to socialize EV losses across the industry, even if this means consumers can’t buy the cars... — read more 

I've been noticing more of my coworkers being sick than years past. I'm seen people with weird heart rhythm problems, cancers, blood clots. Just odd things. Anyone else seeing this?

So much for our planned revenue stream from data sales, the federal government is putting the brakes on that plan. From the Detroit News: The message from the Federal Trade Commission comes after outcry from U.S. Senators and a series of alarming... — read more 

Hello, just spoke to a couple fellow contractors who are having very different experiences. One tried to move teams and was told that there is no roles available for contractors and that there is a push to hire direct employees. The other one was... — read more 

Sounds like everyone here is disgruntled or an H1B desi from some consultancy group

From the Detroit News: Ford tells dealers to pause EV investments as it reviews certification program Ford Motor Co. is recommending dealers halt investments related to selling electric vehicles until after it completes a review of its requirements... — read more