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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Ford brand is supposed to be for inexpensive vehicles. A luxury pickup or vehicle should not be a main focus.

Management at Ford is full of rich idiots completely disconnected from the public.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where have you been for the last 20 years? The money is in "luxury" pickups and SUVs. Maybe I should say expensive pickups. The big 3 don't care about inexpensive vehicles. People don't even want cars anymore, they want SUVs, CUVs, and pickups of course.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

That’s right.

Why sell 100,000 vehicles at with $500 profit when they can sell 10,000 vehicles with $10,000 profit. Genius.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The people want what they're told to want.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You can argue about the effectiveness of ads, but at the end of it no one is buying cars. Honda Fit went under.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

The Model 3 is the 2nd best selling EV in the US.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Management at Ford is full of rich idiots completely disconnected from the public.

Ford survived on overpriced trucks the public loves to buy.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nobody buys cars in the US anymore. The only car Ford still sells is the Mustang.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

the Mustang.

Boomer weapon of mass destruction.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

They buy station wagons but they prefer to call them SUVs or crossovers because wagon sounds old timey.

I see tons of Japanese and Korean cars on the road. Nobody wants to buy “American” cars because their reputation is in the dump.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Millions of new vehicles in the US are cars. They just are not Ford cars because they don’t sell any and when they did they didn’t support it.