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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo
Shame that Ford pulled out of everything except one or two segments,
The whole shamozzle around Ford Europe ****es me off the most because Ford Europe made next level small cars, no one else comes close with driving experience and how they stop, turn and go.
Throttle response that reads your mind, tiniest movement of the steering wheel and the car moves.
Just majestic cars,
Then head office decides to take to it with an axe, and cut their strength of Ford Europe.
No more Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo, assume their engineers went with them too.
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Originally Posted by smoo
The same can be said for the Falcon. Pretty much nothing that offered the same level of driving dynamics, engine performance and comfort that wasn’t compromised for the price.
But some accuse those of living in the past and to get with the times if they point it out.
Now we’re stuck with dead boring car based SUVs across the board. Touted as decent vehicles because of the touch screen size or the ability to keep itself between two white lines to make up for drivers wandering attention from the mind numbing drive.
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Catching up with thread here, you got it in one smoo. And Franco is correct too, it sucks when that unique product you like gets the chop. Immense boredom in the replacement process, drop 50K for something you don't want?
Was off with the US market last night and CDJR is in real trouble, to an extent the big 3 are stockpiling unsold inventory on dealer lots as well as hiring space nearer the factories, the consumer there has snapped after covid pricing and won't pay $110K US for a Grand Wagoneer (ship them here! Oh, left hand drive). A moment of reckoning is occurring in their dealers and I remember from reading that inventories piled up in late 1928 but it took until the next year for the market to realise this. EV resale in the US is armageddon at present, and if all the growth that went with the inflation reduction act comes in for a fall, that's a classic capital misallocation bubble just as the GFC was with houses.
I do wonder if the US flooded the world with it's unsold domestic inventory, like China is doing, if it raining pickups and ultra huge SUVs would make Australia great. In the regions at least.