How are we doing? Who's at the helm? How about $$$...
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I think the future is rather bleak for the U.S. automotive in general. Lots of subsidies and bailouts are the only way they survive.
I was laid off , I would happy to see no Ford or Chapter 11 ASAP. They do not exist for me forever.
@cm And, did you know electric vehicle operations can be run without executives! Ford should at least try it. What do they have to lose? More Billions?
@am And Lawlor will show the employees the doors and continue to use those that remain as floormats (If they CHOOSE to let him)!
@cn But in the end, Ford mobility products and services will leap Ford past the competition. You left off.....INTO LAST PLACE. C'mon Bill. Get with the program!
Billy will be retired and Farley Fired. DF leaves and Joe Henrichs is back to save the company.
Wait that was just a dream
The only way US auto manufactures survive is if foreign auto tariffs are 100% or more. And Tesla sales slump. Then perhaps Ford has a chance.
In the dumper.
It will be back to basics if it wants to survive. 90% of LL’s will be fired and 50% of GSR’s will be fired. It will be a much smaller company. I want Ford to survive with these actions.
@cn lmao there is no chance Ford leads at anything technology or software wise. Always been behind the times, always will be. Took 4 years to get Apple CarPlay in a vehicle after the first cars had it. Planned to have a level 4 autonomous vehicle by 2022, never came close. Feature implementation is always stuck behind d-mb processes with red tape or no ownership and no driving forces to get things done.
Ford will still be rearranging the deck chairs on the Fordtanic as it slips beneath the ocean waves never to be heard from again.
@cn are your initials spelled MJ?
In 2 years or even less, Ford's technology stack will advance, more subscription based features will be available for customers, software and data business opportunities will grow and next-gen Model e will be launched.
But in the end, Ford mobility products and services will leap Ford past the competition.
@a3
Did you know that electric motors can be made without rare earth permanent magnets?
Tesla even had an induction motor for their traction motor.
Ford knew this years ago. Did nothing.
Where do you see Ford two years from now? In the rearview camera if it works! And if it does work, I hope they stay right there until I back out completely!
More cancelled programs, less direction then before. Laying of the opposite people they should to prevent it from happening again. Rinse, repeat, until a husk of a great company is left to sell to the Chinese at a bargain basement price.
I see Ford in the junkyard in a few years, unless the Ford family release their grip on the company. FMC has lost too much money and too much market with the !diotic ideas of BF.
John Lawlor will be CEO and all Fords will have Chinese designed and made engines as he said he wants.
Ford will design the doors and floor mats.
All will be the same, new folks on the top. grifting will continue at higher levels. BS PR will continue.
Either Ford is a pure North American OEM or (and that would economically be the more reasonable solution) GM and Ford get merged to one company. It won't help them much since both are simply not able to understand customer needs out of north america, but they might survive longer and share the "precious" north american market.
Ford and GM won't last long. China controlling magnets causing Ford and GM to halt production. And it would take some time to build refinery plants in US. There there is the issue with toxic in the air due to mining. Communities of people would get sick (cancer, etc). The future of auto is EVs and I think China is trying to get into the US market with it's BYD. One way it can do this is if they cripple the US auto industry. No rare-earth minerals means no magnets, means manufacturing, means layoffs and plant closure.