Why is Ford the only American car company not in the hole?

[jds1911a1]

one reason ford isn't has hard up is they didn't blow their dough on design concept cars that wouldn't sell as production ones. GM has put out some really odd cars that while attention getters in an auto show didn't correlate to sales like the hhr (which seems to be coming 10 years to late to the party started by the PT CRUISER) and the camero pick up combo "inpired" by the el camino idea. never mind the fact than GM has many cars from different nameplates vying for the same buyers (especially in the luxyry crossover market). That is a mentality that ford stopped 10 years ago
Ford was smart enought to stick to retro cars that never stopped selling (Like the mustangs) and kill the design when sales drop (like the retro tbird). When 8 cly sales fell off the map ford dropped the crown vic as a general release car. now it's only manufactured for taxi and police sales on order only so no invoentory is unsold. Ford had some sales hickups with the 500 and taurus but both were based on ford's overseas market cars so the loss in design costs was minimal

I have a 96 thunderbird I bought new and has 175000 miles and has had 2 major repairs ever that weren't tires and breaks but the way a car was made doesn't equate to a manufacturer selling well just the opposite they want cars to wear out in 5 years to force you back into buying another

[toys2cool]

I figured I'd post a pic of the front since all he'll see is the taillights.

Rich

yes I'm sure you'll be smoking my 400HP 300zx TT

[toys2cool]

Poor Damien...Ford hater...lol...

not a hater. I've owned a Cobra and a 5.0 T-bird before which were great cars

but I've also had friends with Focus's ,Taurus's,F150's,v-6 Mustangs and Probes Nuff said

[kryptosmaster]

not a hater. I've owned a Cobra and a 5.0 T-bird before which were great cars

but I've also had friends with Focus's ,Taurus's,F150's,v-6 Mustangs and Probes Nuff said

I'll give you the Probe..you couldn't pay me to own one of those.
Same for the Contour..I'd rather have a Probe.
V-6 Mustang? If you buy a Mustang with anything less than a V-8 you're stupid anyway...LOL.
Focus's are actually pretty good little cars if you avoid the first few model years.
I bought 98 Taurus brand new and never had ONE problem with it. The brakes even lasted almost 70,000 miles before I had to replace them.
Unfortunately it got stolen and totaled.
Rich

[toys2cool]

no matter how you put it all makers make good cars and crappy cars, so we could sit here all day and argue who's better

[Hector]

not a hater. I've owned a Cobra and a 5.0 T-bird before which were great cars

but I've also had friends with Focus's ,Taurus's,F150's,v-6 Mustangs and Probes Nuff said

Well...duh...

You want me to list the bunch of lemons from both Chevy and Dodge as well?

[toys2cool]

Well...duh...

You want me to list the bunch of lemons from both Chevy and Dodge as well?

duh...read my previous post

[Hector]

You mean...your contradiction post?

[toys2cool]

You mean...your contradiction post?

I'm just saying all makers make piece of **** cars, not as much as Ford but they all do

[livnxxxl]

This ain't your father's Taurus. The 2010 is a NICE looking car and the interior is very sporty.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/01/2010_Ford_Taurus_SHO.jpg

http://images.thecarconnection.com/l...00182862_l.jpg

Are you kidding me? Ford is going to relaunch the SHO again?

[kryptosmaster]

Are you kidding me? Ford is going to relaunch the SHO again?

Yeah but looks like they finally got it right this time.

Rich

[Hector]

I'm just saying all makers make piece of **** cars, not as much as Ford but they all do

Now, now....careful with the language...no reason to get mad here...