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Old 04-28-2018, 11:03 AM   #24
Norm Peterson
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Originally Posted by Blueovalman View Post
If Ford is smart they will keep the Mustang as the Ford Mustang will help them bring in customers to sell them and other vehicles. All Ford’s other sedans they can discontinue but Ford will still manufacture parts for whatever models they decide to discontinue.
You'd think they could drop the least popular sedan models but still leave one or at the very most two sedans out of the four in the lineup for the half-million or so who did buy Ford sedans of some description. You're not going to put all of them into an SUV or even a crossover.

Here's an interview with Jim Farley where he's enamored of "tall ride heights" and tying emotion to off-road driving . . . the kind of driving that few SUVs actually do intentionally.

https://www.at.ford.com/en/homepage/...o-dealers.html


Between him and Hackett, they've guaranteed I won't be shopping at a blue oval store next time we need a car with more than four doors.


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