Ford Motor Shifts Gears?

Mar 31, 2005 12 Replies

It appears that Ford has finally started to get it, well, at least one part of the puzzle. And this part of the puzzle says that business as usual, doesn't cut it in today's hyper-competitive market. The market wants continual improvement, not the old plan of design a vehicle and then wait for it to die on the vine before you make changes or offer a replacement.



Any way... very interesting article. Take a read.


at the dealership there are alot of unhappy customers fom engines that popped plugs to the 3.8 focus is crap

face it ford is crap

hurc ast

I got a better idea, give us the falcon and it's ute. ;)

lmfao give the people their money back more like it

hurc ast

Unfortunately the Falcon name has been trademarked by ...Pep Boys I think?!? For a tire of all things!!! AARGH!! The 500 was, IIRC, originally going to be called "Falcon" until the TM issues came up.

Ford lost the case to stop pep boys from using 'futura' which was last used in the USA on a particular trim level of fairmont....

UTE??? I'd love to see the Falcon show up as a 4 door version of the Mustang.

Oh YEAHH!!!!! Now I remember!!!!

The 'ute' is a modern falcon ranchero

Thought a picture would help:

Here are the fpv versions:

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And the regular:
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on 'falcon ute')

"Brent P" wrote

Which looks like a retro...

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It's all about retro now. At least at Ford.

Cept I don't think they ever stopped building them down under.

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Not bad. But I don't care for the heavy rake of the windshield. I think with a few touchups it could be really cool.

Patrick '93 Cobra

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