2006: Worst year in Ford's 103 year history

[Dark Horse]

Originally Posted by ltd

Firstly, Alan Mulally is the boss now, he will and I emphasise will turn the company around - he did the exact same thing with Boeing. As for fuel economy, Alan captained the notion of lean and clean fuel burn, making Boeing the largest and most profitable airplane manufacturer in the world. Beforehand, there were massive layoffs and sackings at all of their plants, as the product range was far too dated and airbus were eating into their sales. Now, Boeing are hiring again and have an order book for over 1200 aircraft, with an average price of US$110 million dollars each. With options, that figure is closer to 2500 aircraft on order.

Ford are in good hands with Alan, and if there is a saviour he is it. That includes options such as making cars for the US in other places ike Oz, evidenced by the fact that most of the 787 composite is manufactured in Italy.

Yeap, agreed and he did all that in just 4 years.