BF has hired Goldman Sachs and BCG to exploit all possible scenarios emerging from ANY tariffs or US trade policy.
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Some one listed edge sales down 93%. No sh-t. They quit making it last year and gave up market share. How d-mb is Farley
@an+1jr3pq922 Moran is a complete failure, needs to go.
Thanks for the laugh.
I feel so bad that the leadership is being victimized by the working ranks that they hired and (supposedly) lead... and now the leaders need to bring in their elitist B school friends to fix things again.
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Also here is a direct quote from our genius behind this service offering:
“Our vision for security at Ford is to one day build an un-stealable vehicle,” said Christian Moran, general manager of Safety and Security Services at Ford.
Until we figure things out, you should subscribe because the statistics prove that f150s get stolen A LOT
So much criticism of Ford leadership here, but haven't you even thought of the other side of the coin? The working ranks are much larger in the company and more likely to be the root problem in the company performance. No wonder a consulting group has to be brought in again.
The information is literally one google search away from a news article. All of this is public information used in journal reporting online. This is not some “method”.
@ah+1jr3pq922 LMFAOOO WAIT STOP
How convenient that the same post mentions the Marxist grifting human rights council ratings system AND tells you how to steal a pick up truck ... so you get a redistributionist collectivist two for one!
Despite having all this DATA, the General Manager of Security Services had to vac.. travel to meetings in Brazil to try to find out why F-150s are stolen so frequently.
“On 2015–2020 F-150s (and similar Ford trucks), thieves can break in quickly and quietly by prying under the driver’s door handle to manipulate the lock rods and unlock the door.
Another common method is to grab the door’s lock cylinder with pliers and twist it, which often breaks the flimsy plastic housing and pops the door open.”
Religious doesn’t mean related to doubt religious beliefs but to commit to things religiously (referring to my previous comment). Cant be stretched thin and go lulu for lemons
Ford Leadership fails without foundational moral/religious or psychologically integrative commitments. Unchecked hedonistic immaturity and/or tyrannical power are mirror opposites that degrade legitimate civic life. GS should advocate for integrated moral leadership as an antidote. Losses can happen from lack of humility and false flagging (which is like tech debt that comes around to seek its dues). Taking advantage of others included sets a tone from the beginning. That’s not how the best work gets done. Leadership needs to raise stakes when it comes to acts of cowardice and scapegoating to set the tone that it is not tolerated. What you emit is what you permit… and leadership signs off on the license(s). The real problem is preventing how we think cheating in the short term will propel us in the long term. A ocean with a few drops in the ocean still prevents it from being pure. Doing it holistically right is how you remove skeletons. Sometimes that means not rewriting the past, but owning up and making things right. Accomplishing this is after so long seems like an impossible internal conflict, however, preventing things from digging a deeper hole is imperative to sent the tone and open hearts before convincing further to reflect on past.
I will draw on a famous philosopher for this parting take:
Too many Urkels on your team, that’s why your wins low - Thease N.
@GS
The electric F-150 Lightning shows declining sales (February 2025: 2,199 units vs. February 2024: 2,578 units, a decline of -14.7%; YTD 2025 vs. 2024 down -15.1%).
Notably, the Edge is down dramatically by -94.2% year-over-year in February, the Expedition by -47.6%, and Explorer by -23.4%.
Total vehicle sales are down -8.9% in February and -7.7% year-to-date, consistent with the earlier statements about softening demand.
On Ford’s Q4 2024 earnings call (early Feb 2025), Jim Farley bluntly stated that for the largest electric trucks/SUVs aimed at retail customers, “the economics are unresolvable.” He explained that customers who want big utility vehicles use them for towing, off-roading, and long trips – scenarios where today’s EV technology struggles. Such vehicles have “worse aerodynamics and they’re very heavy, which means very large and expensive batteries,” and buyers won’t pay a big premium for them.
Jim Farley had, in fact, publicly admitted frustration with Ford’s quality earlier – he famously said in 2022 that he was “embarrassed” by the high recall rates and was restructuring teams to fix it. But investors will argue Ford didn’t provision enough money for it. The class period (April 2022–July 2024) suggests they’ll scrutinize Ford’s statements across multiple earnings calls and reports. For instance, did Ford downplay the financial impact of known issues like the Mach-E and F-150 Lightning recalls? Did they assure investors that warranty costs were under control when they were not?
This one is good news though! Hear this: In fact, Ford has been recognized as a leader among automakers on human rights: for multiple years, the World Benchmarking Alliance ranked Ford #1 in the automotive sector on human rights policies and due diligence (Ford touted being top of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark) .
Older F-150s lacking advanced anti-theft tech (or having mechanical keys) are relatively easy to steal, and even new ones can be driven away if ppl can get the key fob signal (via relay attacks) or access the OBD-II port. In short, the F-150’s security has notable gaps that contributed to being one of the most stolen vehicles nation-wide.
On 2015–2020 F-150s (and similar Ford trucks), thieves can break in quickly and quietly by prying under the driver’s door handle to manipulate the lock rods and unlock the door.
Another common method is to grab the door’s lock cylinder with pliers and twist it, which often breaks the flimsy plastic housing and pops the door open.
In mid-2024, Ford quietly withdrew from the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI).
Those consultants and investment banks are never wrong. Except the times when they are totally wrong and they get bailed out by the government on the taxpayer dime. So yeah Ford will pay big money to get a bunch of pretty consultant decks Ford mgt should have been able to figure out themselves. The consultants and BF are likely planning to wait out the new administration and go back to DEI, money printing, and forced EV's that were happening before it was clear sending the opposition to prison and/or ki-ling him wouldn't work out.
I’ll save them the money, fire and rehire contractors and then don’t renew the contract and then seek to rehire— repeat.
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Humiliation ki-k
RE: a5+1jr3pq922
You helped connect friends and family to being personality hires since everything else is generally temporary.
How come we use contractors for everything. Are majority of ford employees personality hires? Sincere and concerned question. We don’t do that at our OEM🤣🤣🤣🤣
More consultant vendor locking coming soon
LMFAOOOOO this is like a lawyer taking a bad case and hurting a win streak because the money is too good that it will justify taking a loss. Rigged boxing match for the cash
Golfman Sachs and BCG.
That means more layoffs.