Ford removing cars from the us

[Gjkrisa]

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/ford-to-stop-selling-every-car-in-north-america-but-the-mustang-and-focus-active/

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[FearlessAZ]

I think that is just crazy. With gas prices going up, those cars are going to become more popular with the typical consumer. The only way I see this working is if they have new models coming out.

[SHOdded]

Hybrids galore.  LOL.

[griggs95]

I read this article yesterday on another site that had a comment section and people were really really pissed about this. A huge majority of people basically said...ok, F#@K em'. Take away my choices then I'll shop somewhere else! Bye Ford, been nice knowing' ya for the last 30-50 years in my family.

I see a ton of Fusions all over the place, looks like they're selling to me? Like a lot of things these days, this whole thing seems really odd to just jump ship like this. Going to be interesting to watch, but I am not happy at all about it myself being a car enthusiast.

[Macgyver]

Mustang and that other car are the only ones plus SUVs, Commercial units, and Trucks. They are only eliminating Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, Taurus. Only. lol

Oh well. Gonna kill em when fuel hits $4.50 a gallon again.

Buy stocks from other automakers.

Where is Ford stock at today? Drop?

[EcoAbe]

F stock has been hovering around $11 for a while now. It has been as high as $13 something and fallen as low as $10.24 since January. Today it has been hovering around $11.30. Hackett's trajectory needs to aim at fixing the abysmal performance of the stock... perhaps this is what needs to be done...?

[bpd1151]

Hackett needs a hatchet (taken to him).

[J-Will]

deja vu??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_crisis_of_2008%E2%80%9310#Effects_of_environmental_expectations_and_changing_product_demand

In 2008, a series of damaging blows drove the Big Three to the verge of bankruptcy. The Big Three had in recent years manufactured SUVs and large pickups, which were much more profitable than smaller, fuel-efficient cars. Manufacturers made 15% to 20% profit margin on an SUV, compared to 3% or less on a car. When gasoline prices rose above $4 per gallon in 2008, Americans stopped buying the big vehicles and Big Three sales and profitability.

Guess Ford is banking on ecoboost helping with the fuel economy

[FoMoCoSHO]

Mustang and that other car are the only ones plus SUVs, Commercial units, and Trucks. They are only eliminating Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, Taurus. Only. lol

Oh well. Gonna kill em when fuel hits $4.50 a gallon again.

Buy stocks from other automakers.

Where is Ford stock at today? Drop?

Maybe not, as long as they continue building Euro cars to global spec.

If another crisis happens they could ship their Euro econoboxes to the states.

[SilvererSHO]

I read it AGAIN in the comments section of yet another story.  "I didn't know they still made the Taurus".  Really, maybe you should pull your head out of your colon and take a look around then.  After having a Saturn Outlook and Chevrolet Traverse and then going back to a large sized sedan I really don't understand the appeal of SUV's/CUV's.  ESPECIALLY the smaller ones where you don't gain any passenger capacity over a car in the first place.  I have 3 kids that are doing something almost every night of the week and every weekend and I've never even come close to filling up the trunk on either of our two Tauruses. (Tauri???)  If I needed more cargo hauling capacity I'd get a nice aluminum trailer and haul 5 passengers with MORE total cargo capacity than our old Outlook/Traverse with the back seats folded down and limited to the same passenger capacity of 5 anyways.  Or....only 4 people if you have the captains chairs in the middle row!  I don't get it.

[SilvererSHO]

Mustang and that other car are the only ones plus SUVs, Commercial units, and Trucks. They are only eliminating Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, Taurus. Only. lol

Oh well. Gonna kill em when fuel hits $4.50 a gallon again.

Buy stocks from other automakers.

Where is Ford stock at today? Drop?

Maybe not, as long as they continue building Euro cars to global spec.

If another crisis happens they could ship their Euro econoboxes to the states.

If?  I think you meant when....

[FoMoCoSHO]

Mustang and that other car are the only ones plus SUVs, Commercial units, and Trucks. They are only eliminating Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, Taurus. Only. lol

Oh well. Gonna kill em when fuel hits $4.50 a gallon again.

Buy stocks from other automakers.

Where is Ford stock at today? Drop?

Maybe not, as long as they continue building Euro cars to global spec.

If another crisis happens they could ship their Euro econoboxes to the states.

If?  I think you meant when....

Nope, we have plenty of oil and our shale producers have done a great job kicking OPEC in the nutz.

The days of OPEC manipulation are over.

[FoMoCoSHO]

People like to whine and complain about oil prices but the fact of the matter is there is a long term plan in place to use everyone else's oil first.

Periods of short term pain for long term gain.

[FoMoCoSHO]

That being said, never underestimate the ability of politicians to screw everything up.

[SilvererSHO]

Mustang and that other car are the only ones plus SUVs, Commercial units, and Trucks. They are only eliminating Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, Taurus. Only. lol

Oh well. Gonna kill em when fuel hits $4.50 a gallon again.

Buy stocks from other automakers.

Where is Ford stock at today? Drop?

Maybe not, as long as they continue building Euro cars to global spec.

If another crisis happens they could ship their Euro econoboxes to the states.

If?  I think you meant when....

Nope, we have plenty of oil and our shale producers have done a great job kicking OPEC in the nutz.

The days of OPEC manipulation are over.

That still doesn't mean we won't see $4/gal gasoline again.  And when we do people seem to be pretty irrational over it all.  Selling/trading vehicles and paying more to buy something that gets a bit better MPG and taking it in the shorts on their trade in because of the market value at the time on both vehicles due to the circumstances.  They seem content with spending twice as much doing that than just toughing it out and paying for the $4 gas and driving what they have.  That's all I'm saying....