Look at all the jobs moving out of USA............design, engineering, testing, manufacturing...
Recherche where parts are being manufactured...
The Ford GT is designed in Canada and has nothing to do with other than put the Ford name tag on the body.
Ford will have to either lower white collar wages - or offshore their positions to low cost countries.
Most people on this forum won't like it, but they're going to be out of a job soon enough.
Mexico, India, China, Turkey.... These countries, and so many more, have been improving their higher education to rival the USA's. Now, those citizens can do our jobs - and will be grateful for wages that are pennies on our dollars.
We have done it to ourselves. Greed...
I hope you all encourage your children to become skilled laborers.
@5atv+1rracm4h. If what you are saying is true, Ford should be able the eliminate at least half of the engineering positions.
Re: @5equ+1rracm4h
We could fire the useless overhead like yourself for a start.
Bring the decision making to the engineer, eliminate all these useless processes that handcuff the engineer, let the engineer spend their time on engineering – not .3 hours of engineering, 4 hours of presentations and 3.5 hours waiting to have 5 minutes of time to review so garbage 5-why/5-D junk.
Maybe best if you go spread your great ideas / philosophies to other regions if anyonie were stupid enough to listen.
Maybe you should go get at job in California and get an increase on your net-value in the drive through window.
Go back to the basement and game you loser.
Sadly, this is the only way that we can remain competitive. The workers in those countries are happy to work for a fraction of what we get paid here.
We could lower everyone's wages, but then people would complain. We could raise our prices, but then people wouldn't buy our vehicles. The shareholders will never accept lower payouts, so the only option for survival is to offshore as much of the workforce as possible.
We should move all of our manufacturing to Mexico. Or consider partnering with a Chinese manufacturer and then just building everything their using Chinese labor and ship the completed vehicles here to be sold.
Ford GT = Speed costs money, how fast can your checkbook go? Billy proved with the GT that he has the fastest checkbook in these here parts.
Multimatic delivered a great package. It is of little wonder why Raj ended up there as president after he left of his own accord. Or at least he did after he was told to leave.
Assuming you even work at Ford, ask your people leader to show you the workforce dashboard. That should answer all these inane questions you keep posting.
@3ngu+1rracm4h
"ord GT was developed by Multimatic and other sub-contractors. Ford's input was styling and money.
Ford doesn't turn to any of its own engineering experts for any of the true halo stuff. "
THERE IT IS!!! THE TRUTH!
Ford GT was developed by Multimatic and other sub-contractors. Ford's input was styling and money.
Ford doesn't turn to any of its own engineering experts for any of the true halo stuff.
Because I am a piece of living history myself, I can expand the history lesson a bit more about Ford and Russia.
In the Tsar era, Ford was the most popular brand (along with Russo-Balt, Austin, Studebaker, Renault, Panhard, Daimler, Mercedes, White, Fiat) in Russia until the revolutions. After that, all "foreign"OEMs were purged until Sta-lin sent a group of people to Dearborn and he personally ordered the construction of the new factory, with a copy and paste approach from Ford.
Henry Ford II, was quite close to the Soviets too. He tried to acquire the license to build ZIL-118 but he failed. Those buses are very strange, because they were built on the limousine chassis.
GAZ-24 Volga, was heavily influenced by "American cars" obviously, among Plymouth Valiant, Chevy Nova, Ford Falcon, the body structure, suspension setup is more like Falcon. (look at the strut tower brace!) I used to ride in those cars as a kid and it just felt like an American car to me somewhat. Now I know....
After the end of Soviet, Ford became the top selling brand in newly established Russia, only to lose it all decades later. (briefly, Ford was the 2nd best selling brand in China in the 1910s, after Studebaker. Buick was like third at the time. Look at how Ford lost China in the same fashion. Hey, anyone knows Ford was once the best selling brand in Japan long time ago? And Mr. Honda was inspired to make cars because of it, as he was so impressed by Ford as a little kid)
Okay, any thoughts about this story?
Yes, even Russia.
Seems like I have been blocked from commenting.
"Mr. Funny" - Better than Mr. Bunny I guess...
Canada is basically the US in terms of wages. Lot of great ford and gm cars made in canada. The issue is low cost countries...
Wait until OP finds out where the original GT40 chassis were built.
Why 3 exclamations? Why not just one...also noticed lately that some of these posts are written like a haiku. I think people are getting drunk and sh*t posting here waaay more often now. Funny.
The Ford GT was designed and developed in Dearborn. Canada was the assembly location. Roush did the powertrain.
Where does the billions in corporate profits end up?