Ford invents the Turbo Charger...

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Originally Posted by cody

Isn't ford the only one of the big three that didn't take any gov't chump change? I'm not sticking up for them because I can't stand the big three but I do have a little respect for them because of that.
And F all of the whining beaches that had their franchises taken from them, I wish Congress would have just let them all sink. They did it to themselves as it seems we all agree on.
So we all get an employee discount on a chevy now since technically we all own them as we paid for it through taxes. not that I would buy one anyway, unless Saab was still subaru powered. That was funny back when they first started their employee prices to the public, you could have bought a Saabaru with GM employee pricing. I wish I would have.

[Dean]

Ford only survived by selling a bunch of stuff before things got really bad and renegotiating with UAW. Their business model is/was still flawed, they just realized the recession was coming and did something about it to barely save themselves.

It will be interesting now since they survived which people will like, but GM and Chrysler have federal funding to rebuild...

It will be marginally interesting to see what happens.

[Kevin M]

Ford is less full of fail than GM and Chrysler, but they haven't exactly proven to be geniuses yet either. Like Dean said, they are mostly being saved by having sold off a lot of assets they had acquired, and by some European divisions that actually make nice cars (the Mondeo and Focus are pretty popular around the world). Still, they're way behind the curve here in the states, and that's where the real money is in the business.

[WRXlerate]

With that being said, it's crazy that even with the explosion of the sti and evo in the states, ford never released any of their cosworth line here. There is obviously a market for it. Yet another bad move on their part especially since there is no R&D involved, they already produce the cars.