My family's owned several Fords. I drove a 95 Mustang for a long time. The company's always had a lot of potential; they have lots of bright, capable engineers & designers working for them (at least they did, they've been laying off a lot lately though). But practically every great concept that has come through for the last couple of decades has been killed off by beancounters, watered down by inept executives and the company lawyers' "corporate requirement" pronouncements, or otherwise squandered by the management.
The idiots in charge are always completely focused on scrimping pennies in all aspects of the manufacturing process in order to run more efficiently in the short-term and "save money". What they don't seem to realize (or maybe they have by now, I don't know.. it's probably too late even if they have) is that in the long-term the decreased value of their resultant shitty product line has lost them a lot of money overall.
The low-level engineers that actually do the work of designing their cars know all this, btw - there's just nothing they can do about it.
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